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Other Writing: USDF Connection November 2013

“Carolynne Smith, PixelGraphic Design”
November 2013
USDF Connection
United States Dressage Federation

A short interview with a graphic designer.

Text Art: Brush Pen

Faber-Castell Pitt artist pen, regular & big brush
Pigma Micron pen
Canson Bristol XL Recycled paper

“I will do new things to expand my writing/creative skills.” [I’m Baaaaaack]

Who Me?

Pile the shavings bags by Rodney’s stall, he says. Rodney won’t mess with them, he says. Toys! Rodney says.

I need both arms to pick up a bag. Imagine picking this up with your teeth & heaving it around the barn. This is one of two.

Foot Fashion

Rodney pulled a shoe. This is a temporary measure until the farrier comes. Now imagine a short, stocky, black mare with white bobby sox on her ankles. That is Mathilda’s daytime look.

National Academy Day 3+3: Still Napping

National Academy Championship Horse Show, Murfreesboro, TN, November 1 – 3, 2013.

Short SitRep
It’s not so much that I am tired, as tired of. My instructor’s voice echoes in my head like a bad earworm. I wake up during the wee hours in a panic that I must drive to Miller Coliseum. I have pages of notes. The idea of compiling them into posts appalls me.

I will no doubt feel up to pontificating about the show in a few days. Until then, a photo of Trump and me taken by Team Stepping Stone member & National Academy driving competitor Kathie Mautner.

The woman in the grey vest is my riding teacher Courtney Huguley. The young lady is Trump’s owner Ashlyn Seagle. The ribbons are two Top Ten neck sashes, a third place from the the Pleasure finals, and a second place from the Equitation finals.

That’s right.

RESERVE NATIONAL GRAND CHAMPION.

It was a good weekend.

National Academy Day 3+2: I Owe It All To Rodney

National Academy Championship Horse Show, Murfreesboro, TN, November 1 – 3, 2013.

I was warned that this show is a long haul both mentally and physically, that the weekend would leave me gibbering for longer than usual. Therefore, today is my second day of post-show, pre-written posts.

Way back in the mists of time, I bought Rodney with the aim of showing him at a national championship competition, namely the American Eventing Championships [Back to Eventing: How I Won the Training Level AEC]. If he had been even semi-ridable, I never would have been desperate enough to turn to saddleseat. But he wasn’t and I did. As a result, I ended up at a national championship competition – for saddleseat lesson students.