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Foto Friday: New Clothes

Ideally, I prefer Foto Friday to be about art & expanding my photo skills. However, I couldn’t wait to show off my new saddle seat Academy outfit. Isn’t it beautiful? Custom from Becker Brothers with intense shopping guidance from Reagan Upton, Stepping Stone Farm’s show ring style guru. As reigning National Equitation Champion (also ASHAContinue reading “Foto Friday: New Clothes”

Time Management, Or Not

I hate the screamy voices in my head. When I am idle, they take me to task for sloth [A Look Inside]. When I’m busy, they yell at me for being busy with the wrong things. Now that I have the delightful task of juggling three barns and three disciplines, I have been doing veryContinue reading “Time Management, Or Not”

Show Report: Fun Show 2016 #1

Saddle Seat Wednesday ASHAA Summer Fun Show 2016 #1 Heathermoor Farm Leeds, Alabama June 4, 2016 Driving Alvin: CONES! Me: Wheeee! Our recent displays of style and verve [Team Awesome] have left us long on panache but short on precision. After stomping a cone and threatening the jump crew, I asked for a mulligan. OnContinue reading “Show Report: Fun Show 2016 #1”

Milton for the Moment

We are having the vet out to check one of Milton’s feet. There may or may not be anything wrong. If there is, it may or may not have anything to with my mind-numbing absence of progress. We shall see. Meanwhile: holding pattern. Field walks. Ground-driving at a walk. No trotting on the lunge line.Continue reading “Milton for the Moment”

More Poles for Rodney

Rodney likes poles. He likes them upright as weave poles. He likes them horizontal as cavaletti. (Three of four pictured. Parallax makes it hard to get a decent picture of the whole series.) While he doesn’t like the cavelletti quite as much as the weave poles [Speciesism], he has been known to give a lapContinue reading “More Poles for Rodney”

Letter Art: M is for My Missing Motivation

~~~ 2016 Alphabet L is for Leadline K is for Knabstrupper J is for Jenny’s Jodhpurs I is for I Love You H is for Halter G is for Ghost Gallery F is for Fence E is for Eventing D is for Do C is for Carrot B is for Brush A is for AppleContinue reading “Letter Art: M is for My Missing Motivation”

10 Reasons To Wear A Helmet

1) “Dear Daddy: I fell off my horse at the camp show. Don’t worry, I can move my arm now.” 2) Getting assigned the schoolie who only goes bareback. 3) If a horse jumps but does not clear a large, unsecured hay roll, then the hay, the horse, and the rider will roll. 4) JumpingContinue reading “10 Reasons To Wear A Helmet”