The least exciting thing to happen over the weekend is that I injured my back somehow. It was almost magical how it happened, I went to sleep feeling fine, and then I woke up a cripple, for no apparent reason. Now I'm hobbling around like an old lady, having to use the furniture, husband and pets as anchors to bend over. I never apprec[...]
I figured I should probably make a year end review, but I'm such a boring person, there's not a whole lot to say. I made some goals this year. In retrospect, I set the bar pretty low. And even then, I failed to succeed at many of them. I took hunter lessons. All I committed myself to was showing up for a lesson, and I succeeded. I eve[...]
I'm using a very generic title because I don't know the name of this show. But I did know the following: It was Berry's first pure hunter horse show, and it was at Morven Park, so that was pretty exciting. I've heard the tales of adventure there, so I felt like I was some kind of awesome person to be riding there. They had heard the tale[...]
All of last week, I was eagerly awaiting my show on Sunday. It would be my first show in a while, my first with my trainer, and my first true hunter show. My trainer thought it was a good idea to enter in the flat classes, school her over the jumps in the warm up, and see how she does. There was no pressure to do a course, it was just ab[...]
Maybe you have or had parents that would respond to your pleas of horses with "Do you have any idea how much care they take?!" I don't think many of them actually know though, other than the generic "You'll have to shovel poop!" (the horrors!) I don't find my horses had to take care of. It's not hard, it's just time consuming. I like[...]
On Tuesday I bid a tearful goodbye to Pony Man, as I dropped him off at his trainer's barn. This time, I was the one sobbing, as Pony was way more interested in the farm dogs and the strange little furry creatures that pushed up to his legs. I don't have any cats, so this could have been the first time he's seen them since he was a wee[...]
I've been afraid of jumping Vintage in the past, mainly because she gets fast, and then she would stop. But I've been learning so much with Berry, I thought I would try it again, now that I sort of know what I'm doing. Previously, I have the very ineffective tactic of "do nothing" and then hope for the best. My reasoning was if[...]
Friday was a day of adventure for all my equine companions, each more successful than the last. So we will start with the least accomplished and move our way up. Pony Man When I went to my lesson on Friday, I loaded up Pony Man and took him with me. He paused to look in the trailer (something he's only been in once, three years ago when[...]
My lesson on Wednesday was a little strange. Berry and I started out well. We warmed up over a skinny, which at first she refused, but eventually I got her over it. This may have been a foreshadowing of events to come, or it may have just been that the fake stone wall was terrifying. But she jumped it a bunch of times, and all was well.[...]
I had my lesson today, and at first everything seemed fine. I had an awesome lesson! But then I really wanted some media of me jumping, so after sitting and chatting with my trainer a bit, I went back out to jump more. This was apparently a mistake. Full lesson recap coming, but here is the worst. read more[...]