Before The Show, In Which I Dither And Decide To Go To A Horse Show

Awareness of the outside world. “Technological fallacy: the idea that technology changes society. It is exactly the reverse. Society develops technology to address the changes that are taking place within it.” Paper: Paging Through History, by Mark Kurlansky (Norton 2016), prologue.

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tl, dr: Showed over the weekend. Almost didn’t. [Soloing In A Crowd]

Given the choice, my going to a show seems inevitable. Let the record show that I had actually bailed on this one.

I hadn’t ridden saddle seat since June.

July was heat alerts, endless rain, & summer camp at the barn. Driving works out better in the mornings before camp. [Summer Driving, Summer Showing]

August was work and stress for me … [Pink Horse]

… and Louisville for the barn. [Vicarious Louisville]

September. Work over. Time to pick up threads of my life that I had let drop. Show coming up. Might go. Might not.

Went for driving lesson the week before the show. Got with the program. Of course I am going to the show.

Came home. Is this really what I want to be doing with my life? Neither saddle seat nor western have ever been my dream. Neither of the available horses needed another rider on their dance card. School horse in a lesson-level class is not a particularly adventurous outing.

On the other hand, what else I’m gonna be doing on a rainy Saturday? Sitting around the house growing mold is not a good course of action. Better to do something than to do nothing.

Back & forth. Forth & back. Waffle. Waffle. Waffle.

Between tropical storm & schedules, couldn’t make it back to the barn for a riding lesson.

Okay. That’s that. No show.

Well.

Last minute cancellation on Friday left time for me to scoot out between feeds.

Had lesson. Went to show.

Give the lack of everything lately, took the simplest option. Rode Optimus. Who was of course a stellar dude.

Promise to self, in return for taking the easy route, once the show was over, I would at least attempt new things, i.e. put on my big girl jods & ride new horses.

More tomorrow.

Onwards!
Katherine