Adventures in Saddle Seat, ASB Pleasure Driving Southeastern Charity Horse Show Saturday, September 22, 2018 Bell Cheval’s I’m Joanie in Academy Showmanship Whiskey Throttle in Academy Driving Home videos from Southeastern [Show Report]. I didn’t mean to drag this out for a month. The media took a while to wander in. Taken by myContinue reading “Lights-Camera-Classes, Show Videos, Southeastern Charity 2018”
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Lapping It Up
Home Team I ought to talk about our current schooling progress, or at least our current schooling efforts, but this is too cute. I had to share. Since Milton doesn’t drink away from home, we always offer water to him before he travels. On this day, he decided to lap like a dog.Continue reading “Lapping It Up”
AlphaBooks, F & E are for Farley & Ebony
Graphic Design The Island Stallion (Flame) Walter Farley 1948 Random House 2003 The Ebony Horse Adapted by Anne Terry White Garrard 1969 Even though “Flame & Ebony” is poetic, I put Farley in the title. Fire and horses are not a good mix. I also toned down the color to basic orange.Continue reading “AlphaBooks, F & E are for Farley & Ebony”
This Is Why I Don’t Set Goals
Home Team Back in the heady days of starting to ride Milton [Milton’s Show Schedule], the original plan for last weekend’s show [For This I Cleaned My Tack?] was to do the small three-phase. Ha. Okay, it wasn’t so much a plan as a hope. Lots of stars needed to align for that toContinue reading “This Is Why I Don’t Set Goals”
So It Continues, Show Photos, Dressage at Full Circle Horse Park, October 2018
Photography Dressage October 13, 2018 [Show Report, For This I Cleaned My Tack?] Poetry in motion we were not. These are from our second test. The one that rode better but scored worse. 2015 USDF Intro Test B (Walk-Trot) Between K&A, Medium Walk. I picked one photo that showed what we might look likeContinue reading “So It Continues, Show Photos, Dressage at Full Circle Horse Park, October 2018”
We Say Goodbye to Driving Posts, For Now
Blogging, Combined Driving, ASB Pleasure Driving Driving On The Blog I have one more driving post coming shortly. After that, I will be retiring Driving Thursday for a while. Neither us been in a cart since September [Husband Greg, Katherine]. Milton hasn’t been hitched since June. None of us has done serious schooling sinceContinue reading “We Say Goodbye to Driving Posts, For Now”
This Is Why You Can’t Do It All
Adventures in Saddle Seat, or Not For the first time since I starting showing saddle seat in 2012, I did not ride at the Alabama Charity Championship show. This is our big fall show. The association runs it. Everybody goes. Except me. I had two shows this month. They occurred on the same day, atContinue reading “This Is Why You Can’t Do It All”