Due to Austin’s “Snowpacalypse 2014” last week mixed with spending all day playing cross country on Saturday, Mr. Simon hadn’t been ridden in three days before my lesson on Sunday. On top of a fresh pony, the wind was nuts so I knew I was in for a bit of a wild ride. The lesson started off with building some gymnastics. Trot in to a one stride to a one stride to a two stride. At first, Simon was alllll about…
On Saturday, I got to cross two things off my “30 Before Thirty” list – go cross country schooling and meeting more bloggers! To be honest, I was a bit out of sorts and did more soaking in that RAWR cross country action. The dog drama last week has been emotionally draining and I showed up at Jen’s house running on about four hours of sleep… fun times! Even being in a bit of a meh state, I had a blast…
Whenever I tell my husband that we worked on gymnastics during a lesson, he comes back with “Wow, so Simon was doing some cartwheels and some hand stands?” He’s a funny, funny guy. So that’s where the title of this post comes from, because on my Sunday lesson… we did gymnastics! And there were photographers there, so I’m blogging about it 🙂 Traditionally, we have a hard time with gymnastics. You can read the back story about the first time…
Fact: Jen lives about five miles from my house. Also Fact: I love Haflingers. Logical Conclusion: I must steal Paddington. If a Haffie is haff a horse, they need haff a pasture right? Aka my urban back yard. And they cost haff as much right?! You can see where this is going… Okay I didn’t steal him but I did get to ride him and basically we’re in love. Best friends forever. I will now refer to him as best…
New year, time for a new SWOT analysis. Honestly, I don’t think I’m very good at these. I tend to bucket things into “good” and “bad”, but I guess that’s part of the point of this exercise. As with most of the goal driven things on this blog, I originally nabbed this idea from Viva Carlos. Strengths Simon has a year+ of showing under his belt Consistent saddle time has me and Simon in a good place My trainer is…
Thought this was too fun not to participate… especially since I’m eating pb&j all Q1 to pay off my credit card and hopefully soon new saddle. From An Eventful Life! Imagine someone gave you $100,000 free and clear. Assume taxes are already taken care of and you can spend the whole amount. The catch: you have to spend the whole amount on horse-related things. What do you buy? Much to my husband’s dismay, the game is to do horsey expenses…
I love Karen’s blog, Bakersfield Dressage not because I’m the world’s biggest dressage nut… but because she is an insanely positive person and much wiser than I am. So it’s not surprising that she came up with an idea that I adore and had to make my own version of. From her blog: Mary Baker Eddy says in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of…
One of the best parts of my NC visit was getting to visit my former horse bff, Elvis. When I first got the news that he would be retiring back to my friend’s farm, I immediately scheduled some time to go visit when I was home for the holidays. Armed with a bag of carrots, an apple and a big lump in my throat, I walked out to the pasture where my friend told me that he’d be in. It’d…