We almost missed our jumping lesson last night.  We had a 7:00 pm appointment with David and I even left early so I would have lots of time ...

I iz a gallopy jumpy horse.  I iz a shiny shiny athleet.  Athleets do not do mundane things.  If'n you make me go round & round on t...

Work is crazy, I've been driving around doing field work all week, so hence no Solo updates.  But we've been doing a bit of schoolin...

So much to think about. The lesson was good.  Although I could just feel Solo's indignation: I already worked hard on Saturday, what t...

Good news:  very successful dressage lesson on Saturday.  Did a bit of lateral work and turns out that leg yields are SO much easier when yo...

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 ...

It's always good when someone validates your hard work. Every so often, we all need someone to pat us on the head and say, "good gi...

I get mopey when I can't ride. It was a beautiful day today. Sunny, 70 degrees, the kind of fall day that just makes you sigh and smile...

In celebration of the end of the Nor'Easter From Hell, I decided to strip down the horse bay of the trailer and clean it. Which always ...

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...

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...

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...

And I STILL don't mean Dallas... I had decided, amongst all this, that screw poverty, would I really know the difference between poor ...

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. ...

Someone asked in the comments yesterday about my pictures -- all the pictures of my riding are taken by my erstwhile and wonderful SO, who w...

Oops. I'm spending some time on this clinic because it really DID change everything. As we moved into Day 2 (Stadium Jumping), I w...

Wear ALL THE COLOURZ! It was a humiliating ride. I had just spent an hour watching the group before me with lovely, springy round hors...

A sexy Solo, 11 yrs old & no idea of what lay ahead It was the summer of 2007. Things were going ok. My horse no longer resemble...