Had a nice trail ride on the Funny boy (a.k.a Humor) with Toby and Andria. Humor was not happy to trot and canter on the rocks because he had no back shoes. He lived through it though. Humor still does his stupid little head thing but after I told him not to do it then he only did it one more time. Our ride was pretty fun.

Helmet

Leah: My stupid PC wouldn't let me comment on your post so..... The charles owen jr8 and IRH helmets are all in the $150 range. Troxel makes nice helmets too. Do you know what size you wear?

F.I.N.E.

I have something to say that doesn't have to do with horses...we just had a missionary family on deputation come to our house on Monday (LOVE them!) and the wife, Mrs. Jalowiec, gave me this awesome acronym for when a woman says she's fine.

Freaked out

Insecure

Neurotic and

Emotional

I love it!

WILD RIDE

Yesterday Andria and I had a very crazy and exciting ride in the rain. You all know that it rained and we had a thunderstorm. Well Andria and I were having a nice little relaxing ride and then BOOM! The thunderstorm started when we were riding! Julio and Toby jumped along with their riders. So we turned around and started home. When we got to a fat spot where we could trot we trotted as fast as the ponies could trot. Then when the thunder stopped we cantered and then trotted again when the thunder started again. When we were out of the woods we walk calmly home.
The good news is that we made it home safely and we got to go cantering in the huge puddles because of the fight with the sky and the hard rain it sent. It was fun, but not the kind of ride I would like to go on again. :)

Helmet

Hey Guys, haven't blogged in a while.

I need a new helmet (mine is border-line too small). Anybody have any suggestions for one that is relatively inexpensive, but still good quality and looks nice?

Mr. Sharkey

What has a mane and a tail?Who is fun, silly, and bouncy?
Always forgives?
And can't chew grass?

It's tricky I know! Here are some more clues.

He's fuzzy like a teddy bear and cuddly too.
He loves to take naps when you are giving him a new do. (grooming)
Whenever you want to go fast, he goes faster.
And, what more can you say, he's the cutest, most wonderful ton of fun ever to be found in 800 pounds.

Guess who?

Bummer with a ray of Sunshine

I had a bit of a depressing discovery yesterday when I went to ride: my poor Mr. T was missing a shoe. After a very emotional/hormonal week this was not exactly the thing I wanted to be seeing. A Well. C'est la vie. But, I also have the greatest little sister in the world and she offered to let me ride Julio while she rode Mr. Sharkey. I was pretty fun. The last time I sat my fat butt on Julio was about 3 years ago. It was a nostalgic sensation. There were a few times when I had some flashbacks to the first time I ever rode him. I was just a pipsqueak of a kid at, like, 10 years old. He kept eating grass and I couldn't get him to go. My legs were sticking out practically horizontal and I just kicked as hard as I could with my short legs. *shiver* I'm glad my legs are a little longer now, I don't have to work quite so hard at the kicking anymore. However, as fun as it was to ride Mr. Julio across the lovely countryside of Stoddard, New Hampshire, I do hope Mr. T's shoe gets put back on soon.

This has to do with my cat and thought you all should know what happened to him after I blogged my last post.
My cat had two teeth pulled and is so happy.He has no more pain in his mouth and is back to his old self! yippy!:) B-) :p ;)

FANTASTIC lesson

So...I was gone on a class trip in Quebec for three days and I got back at 12:00 and was extremely tired!

This morning my dad woke me up at 8:45 saying this, "You have to get moving because, you're supposed to be on a horse at 9:45." I had to sleepily hurry and get ready!

I got to the barn around 9:40 and went to get my happy pony munching on grass. Thankfully, he wasn't that dirty and I could groom and tack up quickly. I had an awesome lesson; getting back into the groove of things.

First, we worked on my posture, i.e. my seat bones sliding a little bit under me, not over bending my elbows etc... We then started working on my cantering, LOTS OF FUN. And last, we worked on some cavalettis! I haven't had so much fun in a long time! I have to start stretching my pony even when I don't ride because, when I was stretching him today he was very tight.

It is so nice to be instructed again!!!

I drove Magic and Chippy yesterday. Magic was fairly good. I drove him a little ways down the road and after I turned around I saw a kid running after us, so I let Magic trot down the road away from him (I know, I'm awful! I just didn't want to stop and Magic was being a brat, and I didn't want the kid to get bitten). HOLY MACRAL!! Magic can trot SO fast! That was the fastest I've ever seen him trot! It. Was. Awesome! Haha. But then when we get to the standing part, he fights. Bigtime. He'll stand still for a moment and then a)pivot to the left b)back up or c) go forward. When I try to steer him back to where he should be or to make him stand still, he fights, and then he keeps moving and then he usually ends up rearing or almost rearing. I don't envy Mikaela at all (except for Magic's speed).

Then I drove Chippy and boy, did I miss him! He is so much more responsive than Magic and he will stand still as long as you want him too! He is still cracking a little bit, but he's definitely not in any pain. I figured out that it is his front right knee that is cracking. I think that part of his issue is that he doesn't drink much water, since water helps lubricate the joints. They have a salt block, but he still doesn't drink that much. But Mikaela & I will be showing Magic & Chippy at the Colts & Fillies show on the 5th. Is anybody else showing there?

Now this is going to break the rule about only writing about horsey things,but I thought you guys should know this.
When we got home yesterday we fond our cat on the couch, with his eye swollen shut. my mom called the vet today and they are going to look at him today and see what they can do. In case some of you guys don't know my cat has a tooth infection, a cold, starting to lose his hearing, and has arthritis in his right hip. My mom thinks that the tooth infection has to do with the eye swollen. pour little guy. :(

Fun ride

I had a short yet fun ride today in the ring, some nice trots with some nice head down stuff! Our canters could be better, just need practice! I think the ponies would say the best part was the 12 minutes of chomping on some lusciously green and tasty grass! I had fun, it is so much nicer to be riding in warm weather!

Cootie Shot

I am going against my own rule of only posting horsesy stuff. It will never happen again. Bear with me.

I learned how to give a Cootie Shot!!! Sadly, I learned it from the Big Bang Theory. But that's beside the point. Ok, so basically you take the persons arm. You draw an imaginary circle twice, then make two dots. During this you say - circle, circle, dot, dot, now you've got a cootie shot. Hahahaha. That was hilarious. Love it!!!! Don't worry I was innoculated in first grade. I will never have to suffer with Cooties. Hahahahaha.

Sunny.......... good........ ring........ good....... lesson....... good..........Sharkey not listening to me or my legs..........bad!!!!! So this is how it happened, Dorothy gave Andria, Julie, Clara,and I a lesson yesterday and we were in the finally. We were just walking around the ring and i asked for a bigger walk then i already had, but he would not go bigger so a gave him a tap with my crop, but he still would not go bigger. ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we trotted and he was going so slow, so I asked for a faster trot but he would not do it and I'm sure you know what i did then. No matter what I did he would not do what I asked him.

So I drove Magic today. It started off bad, but ended well. When I first got into the cart he went forward and backed up like he normally does. Then he started rearing. He reared like 4 times. I was scared for a minute that he was going to tip over backwards! Then he stopped after my dad walked around with us for a couple minutes and he was fine. He actually put his head down and tucked it a little bit, I was SO excited. As he got more tired though, his head went up.

After I put Magic away, I walked Chipper around. He was clicking again. This time, I could see it. His pastern is like snapping into place when he puts his foot down. UNGH! Why can't he heal? I'm thinking that maybe a joint lubricant would help. The vet is away until Wednesday, so we can't contact him right now.

I'm back!!

What up Pooper Scoopers? I havn't been on here in ever!!!!!! So my pony adventures havn't been exciting latetly. Other than getting absolutly downpoured on on Friday ( We did not appreciate that one) things have been pretty slow. The ponies have decided that spring is actually hear so it's really not worth wasting there energy on silly stuff. Thank God!! I'm just glad I lived through all of the fireworks. Well maybe when I'm at the barn tomorrow something exciting will happen and then I can blog about it! That would be a turn of events!:)

Chipper & Magic

Take a look at these pics of them freshly clipped!

Chippy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leahsshots/5680029826/in/photostream

Magic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leahsshots/5680561970/in/photostream/

Guess what I did yesterday? I clipped a horse for the first time! Brad showed me how to clip when he did Chippy and then I clipped almost all of Magic! Brad had to do his legs though, because he just wouldn't stand still for me. But he looked great!! I actually kind of liked it except for the fact that we were in direct sunlight and it was about 90 degrees in the sun and I was covered with hair!!

They both look great, though. Magic looks better right after he's clipped than Chippy does. He's a gray color, (he's grulla) and he's very cool looking. His head doesn't look quite as stupid now, haha.

I sorta thought of a show name for Chippy: He's a Chipperdoodledandy. The reason I thought of that is because my mom always calls him Chipper doodle. I'm not sure if I like or not. I kind of wanted to do something that had to do with poker and had the word chip in it...anyone know any poker terms?

Chipper is doing a lot better, his leg cracks every once in a while (not every step) and it's not very loud anymore. *knock on wood* I think he's gonna be alright.

Where are Clara & Sage? We miss them!