Showing posts with label lesson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lesson. Show all posts
October 12, 2010
Can't. Keep. Up.
My time and energy to write is failing to keep up with all the things that are happening! So here is my cop-out with a list and teaser of c...
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thoughtful insights
August 26, 2010
An Epiphany Every Ride
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 ...
June 23, 2010
I Iz Not A Skool Horse
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...
May 7, 2010
Canters And Connections - Simplified
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...
March 30, 2010
Back To Forward
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...
March 11, 2010
Good News, Bad News
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...
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 ...
January 8, 2010
Pats On The Back
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...
November 29, 2009
A Good Bad Day
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...
November 15, 2009
Collecting Thoughts...And Strides
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 ...
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
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 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 14, 2009
Assimilation Complete Or Course Changing Pt. III
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...
September 12, 2009
Learning To Fly Or Course Changing Pt. II
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...
He Changed The Course Of Things To Come, Pt. I
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...
September 8, 2009
The Man, The Legend
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...