After spending all my free time on the bobcat, I feel like I've reached a new level of awareness. It's like a form of meditation, as long as it involves being covered with dirt and dust at the end (I don't follow those hippie lifestyles, so this could be entirely possible.) Why does it take me 30[...]
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As nothing is really going on in my life besides moving dirt around, allow me to regale you the tale of my first horse. My first horse was a quarter horse gelding. He was super sweet, super easy, and an all around good citizen. He was also an older arthritic western pleasure horse, and all I[...]
My dress came in, and it is better than I expected. The material is really heavy and just beautiful. It's so pretty! With Poffins sitting on my dress and me laying out on the floor, I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to get this dress dry cleaned before I even wear it. I've now dug in the aren[...]
It is time. I decided to build my riding arena in July due to work obligations in June. On July 1st, my skid steer was delivered. Step one, which was by far the most annoying step because I hadn't considered it prior, and it took the most physical labor, was removing all the random objects that[...]
I still have one more New Orleans post to make, but it's been pushed out of the line up because I have been inspired. I went trail riding with Olivia from hellomylivia on Sunday at the Battlefield. She wrote about our adventure here. It was so fun meeting up with her again and going riding! She's[...]
This is directed to everyone who said she just had to learn to jump in my last post. Because apparently you were all right. Kudos to you all. On Tuesday I went to my regularly scheduled riding lesson with my usual instructor. I'd just like to put out there that is was incredibly hot. Swelteringly,[...]
I didn't write about it, but last week's lesson went well. Berry was a good girl, and we did lots of trot poles, and even some jumps, the highest being a solid green box, with a pole on top, about two feet. It was a really nice ride, and I basked in the bliss of it for the rest of the week. I felt s[...]
Substantially shorter post than usual, but I suppose I have less to complain about when everything goes well! It was raining most of last week, which means I barely got to ride. On Sunday, I took Berry to a ring to school her. The same barn that did my rating also allows OPRC members to school in t[...]
While at a neighborhood/country party a few months back, I met some members of the Old People's Riding Club. Since I am in desperate need for more horse riding inspiration, I decided to sign up. On Saturday, I had my first official rating. If you are familiar with Pony Club (and I'm not really), it[...]
Mostly pictures from the Upperville Hunter Derby.