Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
February 14, 2010
My First, My Best Teachers
At that point, I had already been enrolled in lessons for about four years. When we moved to Kentucky in 1987, my mother had found a local ...
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thoughtful insights
February 13, 2010
Blast From The Past
Today is a nasty, snow-ridden, mucky day so in order to entertain myself in lieu of going outside and getting cold, I start instead shufflin...
January 12, 2010
Quiz Answers
Just because I know you were dying to find out, our two mystery horses from the 29 December 2009 quiz were successfully identified! molly wa...
December 29, 2009
Pop Quiz, Hotshot
A holiday visit to the parent's house found me sorting through pictures of days past. So now, lucky you get to be regaled by my finds in...
December 17, 2009
A Love Story
All girls dream of ponies. For at least a brief time in their lives. Some girls never stop dreaming. That's me. When I was growing u...
November 5, 2009
Painful Plodding Progress
Dressage and I have a love/hate relationship. I love it. It hates me. I grew up riding dressage, right down to the German guy making m...
October 29, 2009
Funding!
We needed a dressage Obi-Wan to help us channel the force. We were completeing HT's without getting eliminated. We were staying in t...
October 26, 2009
Did You Know Caves Kill Horses?
It's true. So Solo tells me. The second horse trial we did this summer was down at the legendary Denny Emerson's farm so I knew ...
Keeping Memory Lane Rolling
Whew, got back from Waredaca, my mind is overflowing...will have to sort it all out at some later date. Back to our previously scheduled p...
October 16, 2009
The Big D
And I STILL don't mean Dallas... I had decided, amongst all this, that screw poverty, would I really know the difference between poor ...
October 14, 2009
Success And Failure
Yes, you caught me, I am back! Momentarily refreshed by a beautiful trip to the Outer Banks. Got Solo moved to a new farm yesterday, which...
October 6, 2009
And We All Fall Down
We seemed to be going along ok. I tried hard to practice what Jim had shown me, especially one exercise in which you take one jump, then pu...
October 5, 2009
And Then There Was The Woff
Unless you live in some kind of cave, Jim Wofford is a household name in the horse world. And in eventing-land, he is synonymous with God. ...
September 30, 2009
There's A First Time For Everything...
Including horse trials! It was summer 2008 & the time had come to GET OUT THERE and do it. A local farm does a nice little greenie ...