Before I moved out to my farm, I had a very specific vision of what my life on the farm would be. Instead, turns out it's a whole lot of this: Recently, I've been just wishing I boarded. Life would be so much simpler! Prepare yourself for a complaining post! First, I have to think of the irony that I moved onto a farm to[...]
I've had a fun few weeks with Berry. Springtime meant she had to go into season. But, before that happened, I was happily having a lesson on her and discovered my trailer ramp handles were broken. The trailer had to be fixed, so that meant I couldn't go anywhere for a while. While that stunk, I did have a super awesome lesson on one of my[...]
It's been a while, but I've been inspired by yet another bizarre horse movie. I don't know what the producer's inspiration for this movie was, but I'm thinking someone just owned a really nice mule, and thought to themselves, "This mule is a born star! It should have its own movie." Thus, this movie was born. This movie was on a DVD I bo[...]
From the author of the acclaimed best seller, Fifty Shades of Bay, and such inspirational posts as I Have a Love/Hate Relationship With Horse Movies, comes a poetry debut of such depth and beauty, you may literally cry in your seat. An Equestrian Life presents: An Ode to Smart-Ass Little Pony Oh Pony, My Pony, You have returned f[...]
Continuing on with Mary Flood's Clinic, we talked about working the horse next. The first part, Rider Position, is here. I think the majority of us lunge our horses, or at least at some point lunged our horses. I learned just from watching my trainer lunge a few times, and then being handed a whip and line and being told to lunge. Basi[...]
This past weekend, I went to a Lunging and Long Lining Clinic taught by my dressage trainer Mary Flood. Mary has all three of her USDF Medals, and was on the USET Long List, and competed in the 1992 Olympic Screening Trials. She's also just a cool, cool lady. I will admit that I haven't taken a dressage lesson in ages, but when I am pl[...]
I went to a clinic at my dressage trainer's this weekend, and before the clinic was a woman riding her beautiful horse. She getting a mini lesson from her, and making me wish I was more diligent about taking dressage lessons...or even practicing dressage. Of course, I took tons of photos so I could photoshop my face over hers dream about[...]
I was given a whole sackful of Effol and Effax products at the Boyd Martin clinic I attended. Up until I started writing this, I thought it was all the same brand name, despite the fact that I kept calling it by whatever product I was holding at the time (I was wondering why I seemed to keep getting the name wrong), but apparently it is[...]
Welcome back to part 2 of my World Class Grooming overview!! Part One can be found here. As I said before, this clinic is super informative and well worth it. Here's just a few more tidbits of the day. Clipping As you may vaguely remember, and I remember vividly, my horse had a really, really bad clip job this past winter. Like so ma[...]
I'm on a clinic attending spree, and attended another one this past weekend. Inspired by the fact I truly am the worst at grooming my horses, I decided to attend a clinic from the co-author of World Class Grooming, Cat Hill. The clinic was set up by my new riding club, Tri-State Riding Club, and while this was the first event I attended w[...]