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Entry Philosophy, Pre-show Report, Full Circle Horse Park, May 2019

The Gray Wonder, Dressage Diva, Jumping Diary I wonder if other people spend as much time cogitating about which classes to enter as I do. Class 5 – Intro C Time to canter. We’d learned what there was to learn at Intro A&B [Preliminaries Accomplished]. Yes, we still had a huge amount ofContinue reading “Entry Philosophy, Pre-show Report, Full Circle Horse Park, May 2019”

Note To Self, Keep An Eye On The Jump Crew

Jumping Diary That feeling when you come around the turn and realize your instructor has reset the jump when you weren’t looking. 18″ Vertical, taken at the canter. By any external measure – ridiculously tiny. Measured against internal progress – Personal Record! Thank you for reading, Katherine Walcott

State of the Blog: A Marketing Haiku

Blogging About Blogging On the net, daily. Not going batshit crazy. Life becomes story. Process Notes Because I can’t leave well-enough alone. In It’s All Just A Draft, Tobias Buckell talks about synopsizing novels & writing cover copy. In zooming through my 750 words later that day [A Place To Write], IContinue reading “State of the Blog: A Marketing Haiku”

10 Day Challenge

Worth 1000 Words, Visual Storytelling Reagan Upton [Barnshine, Road] nominated me a in a Facebook challenge: Ten-day horse family challenge. Every day, select an image from a day in the life of owning, loving, driving and riding that has had an impact on you and post it without a single explanation and nominate somebody toContinue reading “10 Day Challenge”

Dressage Demo Diva

The Gray Wonder On one hand, a horse and rider who needed to practice the Intro C dressage test in a ring. On the other hand, a group of home-schoolers coming to Stepping Stone Farm for their weekly lessons. Result, a dressage demonstration for the kids. How To Give A Demo When You Don’tContinue reading “Dressage Demo Diva”

Ribbon Rant

Adventures in Saddle Seat You call that a ribbon? Three short streamers and a narrow, single rosette with the world’s most lifeless ruffle? I’ll give them the customized button, that’s cool. Different buttons give a nice variety to a ribbon display over time. The sticky-out white streamer has the name of the show. TooContinue reading “Ribbon Rant”

Milton and I Attend Group Therapy

The Gray Wonder The sea of legs is the line up from the group lesson at Stepping Stone Farm last Saturday. I counted 10 horses, others swear there were 11. Either way, lots and lots of horses in a little ring. One was excused after the trot, so we “only” cantered 9 (10)Continue reading “Milton and I Attend Group Therapy”