I have body clipped twice in my adult life, which means I’m pretty much an expert. Thus I present to you this detailed tutorial. Step 1: Frantically try and find clippers to use on your only good day available to body clip before the show. Grovel. Make promises of trading alcohol for clipper use. Step 2: Have jumping lesson to “tire horse out” which really tires you out instead. Jump very large. Watch lower leg say ‘bye bye’ over anything…
We’re having ridiculous Texas weather again. No, we don’t have piles of snow and tons of rain like some of y’all… but it can be equally as frustrating. Case in point – Saturday it was in the high 70’s by the end of the day. Sunday morning the temperature dropped 20 degrees in 30 minutes, and we got lots of wind and rain. Monday night brought a sleet thunderstorm… but I wasn’t able to ride Sunday and I really wanted to…
Simon and I have a well established routine this time of year, and by well established… I mean this is what we did last year: work hard all year to horse show, go horse show, end on a high note, pretty much ignore Simon until after new years… and then start all over when he’s sound again. See, I have plenty of drive and motivation when the shows are looming… but after our year end show ribbons and debut at…
I think winter coats on horses belong in one of two categories. One being, the adorable category. Adorable as in the sweetest eyes you have ever seen. Who do those sweet eyes belong to? That’s Jen’s new Haflinger my new pony. His name is Paddington. You can give him a fro. Paddington gives 0 f’s about the fro. He’s just going to stare at you all cute like. You can braid his mane like a My Little Pony. Paddington don’t…