Riding – Page 17 – Virtual Brush Box

Match Game

Can you match 36 pairs of equine ears to their blog homes? The contest put on by Peace & Carrots has passed, so any participation would be for giggles and the chance to explore a large number of horse blogs. Entries: Peace & Carrots: Between the Ears Contest! Identification: Peace & Carrots: Between the EarsContinue reading “Match Game”

Lengthen Your Reins

Saddle Seat Wednesday Before I can talk about the show, I have to tell you about my lesson the day before we left. Iggy and I had been doing okay but not great. We won a class [Show Report ACCHS 2016] and got good reviews at the last pre-show group lesson, but I knew weContinue reading “Lengthen Your Reins”

Hilly Going

A while back (last year? year before? It all blurs. I digress), I tried riding Rodney up the hill in his pasture. Within 2-3 strides, it was clear that he was not going to tolerate uphill with weight on his back. Brain going offline. Meltdown/come-apart looming. I stopped. Last week, we walked halfway up theContinue reading “Hilly Going”

A Good Evening’s Work – Rodney

One evening last week, we took both horses out to the ring. Milton worked while Rodney watched. Rodney is not dumb. Okay, he is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but he is not dull-witted. His mind goes a million miles an hour. Usually wondering what part of the sky is about to fallContinue reading “A Good Evening’s Work – Rodney”

New (to me) Saddle!

Since I have proven to be such a special snowflake about my saddle seat saddles [Show Report: Tack Change], I have been pondering getting my own. (BTW, husband says I have been a princess and the pea about what I ride in for as long as he has know me. Any claim I make aboutContinue reading “New (to me) Saddle!”

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”

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”