Friday's Ride

Hey y'all, wow...Finally blogging again! I really have nothing exciting to write about, but my trail ride. On Friday I went for a trail ride with Oliver, Rachel & Sharkey (omg).

We started by squelching through the giant mud ocean (the paddock), then proceeding to groom a dusty and wet/dry mud-covered horse! I kept inhaling dust and my eyes watered several times (also because of dust)! We tacked up, and buckled our helmets...AND THEY'RE OFF!

...NO just kidding, we literally crawled down the driveway.

Walked, walked, walked. Had a nice excited trot! OK...let's calm down. Good, back to a normal trot! As we went along a flat area I asked for his head to go down (don't worry clara.. No se-sawing)! Oliver starts thinking about it... Well then, to my disgust and surprise; Oliver starts swinging his head side to side!

I am used of his head tossing: up & down! But not this flinging side to side.

I then walked, and started with a fresh trot, that was the end of the weird tossing; and also the end of Oliver putting his head down. I was quite frustrated! He was a Not-So-Cool-Pooper!

He insisted on doing whatever he wanted to do exactly when he wanted it! I soon told him otherwise, but just as that stopped he decided to start an extremely hipper trot again.

After an interesting cater up the big hill, we galumphed to hubbard. (prolly didn't spell that right). I had another nice trot. We then started our decent back down the hill.

Now, I wanted to trot again, but no no no Sharkey took off at the bottom of the hill. He wouldn't move his choppy butt out of the middle of the trail! Oliver is faster than old Mr. Sharkers, so we began to pass them. Instead of being a gentle-horse Sharkey cut us off! (notice I haven't mentioned Rachel, that is because Sharkey didn't even consider listening to her)...I almost had a heart attack, because we nearly fell off the trail!

We then stopped and had a normal canter....... And finally made our way back to the big red barn!

Ya sounded pretty interesting? Didn't it? Don't worry Rachel & I aren't that crazy! (But our ponies might be)...

Better News

Julie I have something for you to :) about. I just went and saw Chipper and we may not be out of the woods yet, but I bent all of his legs and they seemed fine, no cracking or anything. He was shut in his stall because their paddock is excessively muddy, so I couldn't tell for sure if he wasn't limping, but he didn't seem to be. So (fingers crossed!) I'll be able to show him! :D Thank you, Lord!

This has nothing to do with horses but it was so much fun!
My family knows someone who comes to Stoddard in the summer and he does a Jazz concert every year and gets tickets for my family every year, so last night we went to the Jazz concert. It was so much fun. Oh I almost forgot to you that he directed the music for the Little Mermaid and almost all the Disney movie!!! He is so nice and funny too!

I should have blogged this on Tuesday but i was so busy, because my brother just came home from the army and i have been catching up with school. Anyway back to the topic, I went on a trail ride with Dorothy and Clara. We had Jazz, Oliver, and Julio (the one who thinks he has to be on a horses butt all the time). I had Julio behind Jazz and Oliver and some times he pulls a lot but on Tuesday he was SO good. Then we had a canter up a hill and he was good, he was happy too. He did two flying lead changes up the hill!!!! It was such a nice ride!!!! :)

Crazy

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A Stranger on the Blog

So it seems that no one is really posting anything important except Leah. (Way to go Leah!!) This blog is about horse lovers talking about stuff they love - horses. Let's try to keep it that way.

So my important blog....

I haven't posted anything intersting in awhile bc. well... I haven't done anything intersting horse related or related to anything really. I will post about something frustrating then.

I had my first lesson in the ring this spring and Julio was a poophead. And a really big poophead. No joke. He hasn't really been asked to bend in a circle for ...... 5 months...... so he was wicked ticked off when I began asking him to move around and off and away from my leg. Urgh. He was halfway good the first way. The second way was a nightmare. My inside leg and lift-and-shift hand were dying. Urgh. Would he just figure it out and move under himself and carry his own head around. Urgh. It was a frustrating ride.

On a happy note, I was glad to get into the ring and do some real work. ie. circles and laterals. Yay!!!

No more pouting. or complaining or whining or more whining. :)

Can't wait to ride tomorrow!!!

I had an idea for a show name: LMC's Moonlight Sonata. Whaddaya think? The Moonlight Sonata is a gorgeous song composed by Beethoven. LMC=Leah, Mikaela, Carson. That kind of has a ring to it, huh? LMC's Moonlight Sonata. As much as I want it to fit Chipper, it fits Magic better I think.

Still nothing that fits Chipper (if I'll be able to show him, because of his injury), I only have two and they're super LAME: Sweet Serendipity and Nothin' But Trouble. Help! I want to get a really good name that fits him well, but I have yet to find one!

How do you go about using a new show name, anyway? Do you write it in the entry form? The only thing I was wondering is with 4-H, you have the approval forms, which will have their regular names on it.

Please comment. :)