Had a good lesson last night. On Saturday I picked up my tall boots from the cobblers from getting the zipper fixed, and since then I’ve been complaining about them almost non-stop and feeling like I can’t ride at all with this slick concrete boot on my lower leg. Asked my trainer if I could potentially show in half chaps at the show, and she wasn’t impressed haha. The good news is that by the end of the lesson I…
Usually I try to offer you dear readers something extra when you visit this blog. Some wisdom, a chuckle, insight into my personal struggles… Stuff like that. Other times though, I just want to squeal and hold you captive for a few minutes because we had an amazing group lesson on Sunday and dear hubby came to take pictures! So now you have to look at my sweet boy and then tell me how amaze balls he is, because I’m…
Simon and I are leaving the honeymoon stage I think. At first it was the Wow! You’re my new horse and you’re amazing in every way and I’m gonna love you forever and ever and ever because you’re the most special creature that was ever created! That probably lasted from July (when he first officially became mine) until September. In October through December we were in a different but still honeymoon phase. We had been to two local hunter/jumper shows,…
Let’s take a break from all the fake horses for a bit and get back to the real star of the show, Simon! His royal highness seems to be doing well. Due to some interesting weather, I only got to ride twice this week but lunged him one additional day. He treated to me to some shenanigans and let me know that the impending thunder storm was a big deal. Don’t be jealous. He trots for this for like 3…
Something exciting happened this weekend. More exciting than Beezie and her Simon winning the World Cup. More exciting than announcing that I’m moving barns. More exciting than a new Ben & Jerry’s flavor. This is serious folks. Oh yes, I rode my horse. I will try to make this post as exciting as possible, but it was just as ordinary as if I had been riding him three times a week for all 2013. I originally planned on giving him…
On Monday, I sent my vet videos of Simon to see what our next level of work should be. We had been lunging at the trot for 2-4 minutes each direction. She said he looked “not too bad!” and to bump up the lunging this week to see what he felt like doing and could tolerate. So yesterday when I went out to see him, we did 6 minutes of trotting each direction and one lap of canter on his…
Optimism is a funny thing, and I daresay I’m feeling optimistic. Last weekend I really just did not want my horse to die. It sounds dramatic, but that was the goal. This weekend I felt myself looking at the state of things and thinking “I wonder if I’m ok to bump his grain back up to normal” and “I bet schooling changes will come easier now that I know to maintain his hocks properly.” After I took the last poultice…
I went out to see Simon pants last night, and he was back in full spirits. Feeling very fancy and proud of himself, he was quite the demanding horse. Where are my fans? Why haven’t we been hand grazing? This hay is not in a haynet! Needless to say, I was a bit busy tending to his every need in the hour that I was at the barn. Given how worried I was over the weekend and how sick he looked,…