Adventures with my favorite horses
As many of you know, I have a long history with some pretty interesting hoof abscesses. In fact, if you search abscess on my page, you get 32 results. Now 33. Yikes! Last week, just before my two week anniversary…
Read more
I’ve now done two rated horse shows with Ernie, one on property and one away show last weekend. Below is a recap of each show. HR Show First up was the home show that was the second weekend of July….
Read more
As I mentioned in my last post, I had a very strange experience with Ernie’s pre-purchase exam. First though, let’s back up to my decision making process regarding buying Ernie. If you remember back in December when he came on…
Read more
Back in April when it was announced that everyone would get an automatic extension of the payment deadline for any tax returns due April 15th and after to July 15th I certainly didn’t understand what that meant for me. I…
Read more
This past Sunday my barn hosted a local member show, which is basically an elevated schooling show. In the morning school horse kids did classes, then there were classes for the boarders. In addition, a couple other very local barns trailered…
Read more
One of my favorite things to do it ride bareback. When Phoenix was still being ridden at least 50% of our rides were bareback rides. I even rode Stampede bareback at times despite his massive withers (and with the help…
Read more
It’s so hard to believe it’s 2020 already, where does the time go? I was excited to get to ride Ernie outside the day after Christmas. Since he came just earlier in the month, I figured we were inside until…
Read more
Ernie has certainly been reminding me of a few things I used to know, and honestly I’m having fun jumping for the first time in a while now. Ernie’s instructions to me have been very clear – do less. I…
Read more
One of my favorite parts of the holiday season is the annual blogger gift exchange. Tracy from Printable Pony is awesome and does the leg work of matching people up – thank you Tracy! I have met some of the…
Read more
Obviously I’ve still been riding since Maestro left, but aside from going to try 3 horses, I hadn’t been jumping at all. The cute appendix I’ve been riding for a friend really needed some flatwork assistance (which I love doing)…
Read more