More tween lit – fun times for all. This one is not your usual fare though. I picked up Born This Way during my usual “search Amazon for all the free horse Kindle books”. For those of you like that use an e-reader, check often because most books are only free for short periods of time. Anyway, I picked this one up for $0 and gave it a try. It’s… interesting. I give the author points for a clever plot, because…
It should be no shock to ya’ll that I think us hunter/jumper folks tend to get a bit of a bad rep. I use the term “hunter princess” in this blog pretty tongue in cheek, because the good hunter/jumper riders I know are far from princesses. They work hard, and they take excellent care of their horses. Something I’ve heard before from riders who show in other disciplines is that hunter/jumper riders never get out of the ring or that a…
Back last November, I entered the Equestrian Social Media Awards on a bit of a whim. I caught it early enough that there was no fee to enter, and I figured with almost a full year of blogging 5-6 days a week under my belt there wasn’t much to lose? After the initial nominations, I asked all you lovely readers to nominate us in three different categories. Then they closed the nominations, and I had to wait until January 20th…
One of my “30 before I’m 30” items is getting a new saddle, but it wasn’t just because I like pretty new tack. The fit on Simon’s saddle has gone from not ideal to pretty much abysmal. With his bulking up over the summer, the tree width is officially too narrow for his shoulders. That’s causing the back to rock and move even more than previously. We went from occasional rocking, to having his hair under the back panels being…
It’s been a while since we’ve revisited the equine photography tips series, but a Facebook fan and friend mentioned that I kind of dropped it off… whoops! She asked specifically about timing over jumps (amongst others I will cover soon!), so we’ll cover that today. If you want to play catch up, you can read the timing under saddle post or browse my entire equine photography archive. Timing over fences photos is both the easiest and the stupidest hardest thing…
I have a lot of dorky hobbies, and one of them is needlepointing. I love to stitch equestrian stuff, and although I’m good at finishing the stitching part I lack follow through on turning them into actual things. Example? I have five beautiful equestrian ornaments I finished last spring… and they’re all still in the canvas waiting to be turned into actual ornaments. I’m hoping to break my “not finishing” streak this year, because I got a belt canvas for…
One of my personal goals this year was to take more photos with my ‘real’ camera instead of my iphone… and even though that’s a personal goal I am 100% okay with those photos being horsey! I’ve lugged ‘ol trusty to the barn the past few weekends, and spend a little bit wandering around like a crazy person with a massive lens in tow. Crazy person or not, I really enjoy taking more photos again and am pleased with some of…
I get asked a lot about my time working at SmartPak, but it’s been a long time since I worked there and I’m not really the best person to ask. However, that doesn’t mean that I want to leave y’all high and dry! Jessica is someone I met while working there, and she is one of the most professional, smart and driven people I’ve ever met in the work place – equestrian jobs or not. Of course she was a…