More Scheduling Shenanigans, That Is To Say, My Schedule Staging Shenanigans And Me Giving It the SideEye

Horses of the outside world. Braymere Custom Saddlery: Max’s (2024) NaMoPaiMo, part one. Cute story about painting a model horse. The illustrations are intricate, model-sized dioramas. Amazing.

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Repost, ASAC 2015. How was this 10 years ago? [Show Report]

Back to now.

Had a brilliant lesson at the beginning of last month. [Dissecting My Position, Lesson Notes]

Then nada.

Not intentional, more of a concatenation of events that took out a week at a time. Sick. Ridiculously cold. Stressing about work. Barn at show.

I could have fit a lesson in. Probably. But there is no pressing reason and lessons have not been going well when everyone is in a hurry.

Instead, flashback to this show in 2015. One of my fav driving stories. I had never done a pattern with a cart. OTOH, I have done a lot of patterns that have simple circles, aka Training Level dressage tests. A lot. Told Alvin that I was gonna drive it as if I was riding it. He could sort out the rest. We trotted down the long side. We arrived at C. I assumed standard circling position, and lo, the cart circled. I am the pattern queen and Alvin was a rock star of a driving horse. [Show Report, Show Photos, Show Tweets]

Was February 8 weeks long for anyone else?

In Other News

Have a cat.

Skittles, SSF barn cat.

Per reader request for more cat pictures, I am posting this now rather than holding it for a later Cat Pause post. U R welcome. [Taking a Break with a Cat Pause, comment]

Onwards!
Katherine