"My" Groom

My Lucky Groom :)

Thanks for your help, Julie.

States

Great job Clara at States for coming in 3rd!! All of us Cheshire County girls that are going to ESE should make ESE t-shirts with fabric paint...I've always wanted to do that

Great job to our grooms as well: Sage & Julie! (same to Maggie and Mekayla, but since they're not on the blog...)

One More Thing

Hey everyone,

I want to somehow motivate everyone to get back into the blogging spirit! Ya, I know I shouldn't be one to talk, but hey I wrote this post! :) Well, I know we all have something horse-ish to talk about.....so why not write it?!?! (at least comment)

"He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing....He cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds!"

Hay

So, today I did hay for my first time! It was Dorothy, Paul, Rachel, Lizzie, Charlie, and me. I actually enjoyed it, even though, in the end all of my clothes were filled with hay. I wore shorts... Despite the fact that I would get a million scratches I would rather the scratches then the headache from heat! And now, I sit here on my couch and look down at those once 'kind-of-lovely-legs' of mine.

p.s. I was sweating really badly and I noticed that when sweat dripped into my eye it stung...

haha (just throwing that out there) :P

Yesterdays Lesson

I had a great lesson with Andria yesterday. My pony (Oliver) was being responsive and respectful. Yippee!!! Most of our lesson was spent on canter work and jumping. So much fun. One of the freshly painted jumps had been put up and let me tell you Oliver thought that blue and yellow checkers were the scariest thing ever since red and white stripes. Not only were we practicing jumping we had some great reining practice too. Oliver has remarkable sliding stops. Wow! After our lesson Andria and I went out in the field and let the ponies run around it. Oli was so happy. When we were done he was so tired. He rubbed on me for what seemed like twenty minutes. He got a perfectly white tanktop very dirty. Its ok dirt comes out! I'm so excited for states next weekend. I think we are ready! Yay!!!

J.U.M.P.I.N.G.

Yesterday, Rachel and I finally started jumping! I was on Mr. T and she was on Julio! So fun.. We started with the teeny weeny cavalette and then we did a small small cross-rail, (Toby didn't jump either one, but Julio sure did!!!) Didn't he rachel?? :) He would come to it stop and Poppety boom over it! Finally we did a cross-rail that was about 1 ft 1/2 !!! And Toby finally jumped! We had lots of fun and there is still more to come!

p.s. I heard you all had to endure riding without irons too! I had my share of it yesterday!! My poor crotch is sore! :P

Amazing time!

I had such a fun time yesterday!!! I got to go ride Eliza again. First, we went out trail riding, then we galloped along a dirt road (SO much fun). Then, we went river tubing!! Except for some scrapes and bruises from all the rocks, it was pretty fun! When we got back from river tubing, we hopped on the horsies bareback. I got to jump and canter Eliza bareback, it was so awesome! And guess what...I'm going to show Eliza at the 4-H Fair show...only WTA because I want to play it safe for both me and the horse (don't make fun of me...I've never shown riding) and that way we don't have to put a tack hold on Hannah's (the girl that has the horses) class. AHHHHHHHHH! I think I'll FAIL equitation, but whatever, haha.

I have not been on for a long time so I thought that I should post about my ride on Julio yesterday. Ok here goes nothing, Dorothy was having the last day of her mini camp and Julie had ridden Julio right before I did and the kids had rode him all he did with the kids was walking and a little bit of trotting so he did not work hard at all for them. So Julie had just gotten of so I could have my ride, and Julio was such a good boy the entire ride. I hope he was that good for your ride Julie, I did not see it. :(