The only better thing than showing at our local Summer Circuit is hanging out with barn friends and taking pictures all day. Another plus to this is that I can leave at will, and am not stuck at the Expo center for 4 days in a row. That is a long, long time to be at the Expo center in Austin. If you haven’t been there, you just have to take my word for it. For some horses, there is…
I originally saw this at Viva Carlos and just adored her post and all the others I’ve seen going around lately. I had to think about this a bit, because it isn’t exactly easy to pick the 5 most influential horses of your life. 1. The Intro Horse. We each came into horses in our own way, but it was always with a horse leading us. This might have been a friend’s first pony, or perhaps it was a draft…
Got the videos from the June horse show last night, and it was a very eye opening experience. I’ve actually only had videos taken from one other horse show in my life, and that wasn’t with Simon… so I don’t have a lot to compare them to. That being said, I was disappointed. Not in the videos themselves of course, it was sooooooo nice to get them (thank you you know who you are!) but I just saw tension. Tension….
So this post is like… seven months late. When 2013 began I said to myself, “Self – you are not very good at year long goals. Let’s do mini goals for each month instead,” and myself said “Absolutely!” So I wrote January goals. And then my horse broke himself. For four months. And I got a little depressed and sad and forgot all about the January goals, and the February ones… and the March ones… and, well you see where…
I know y’all are probably tired of hearing about the show… but hey it’s a slow week and I promise this is more entertaining than me blog about trying to lunge Simon over the log jumps last night when I went out to pay board and check on him. Overall this show pointed out to me (roughly at times) how much I have to learn and how much work we have to do. I already went over how the classes…
This post may be kind of boring, because it will most likely contain less of the usual flair or introspection. I want to be detailed so I can look back and remember just how these classes went at the show, so I can track our improvement and progress in the future! That being said, let’s go through the classes we entered – the 2’0″ Beginner Hunter and 2’0″ Beginner Equitation division. In the morning, I lunged Simon for maybe 20…
I’ve got both a horse show hangover and a post horse show high today! Yesterday had its ups and downs, but I came out of it feeling pumped and ready to work harder. I’ve also decided on a show name for Simon that will finally stick – Something So Right (a Paul Simon song). We have to keep it, because now we have CTHJA points! I’ll do a better write up tomorrow, but the overall summary is we showed in…
Today is going to be kind of awesome I hope! We have a company fun day at Top Golf (aka little to no work today) and then I’ll get to skip out of work a little bit early to go hack Simon, bathe him and pack for the show. Our lesson last night was pretty shit-tastic, so I’m hoping that means we’ll have a good show 🙂 Either way I am adjusting my expectations in terms of ribbons (as in…