Equestrian Day wrap up
So yesterday was the first official games day with horses that I've been involved with. I may have decided not to go to work this week primarily so that I could finish off my Elizabethan riding outfit (pictured) and attend.
Being able to show off all the work that we've done with the horses to the general populace was really quite cool. I wouldn't necessarily call it hard work, because it primarily involved bouncing around on horses and being generally awesome, but I quite liked sharing a part of what we are doing up on the farm with others to get them as excited about the project as we are.
Unfortunately two of the horses that we'd also been training with, Nola and Blade, had pulled up lame on the day which meant there were less people that could participate, including myself. Belle (the horse in the green barding) is a wonderful mare, but can get really quite fizzy particularly during the games. While a few of us got to hoon around on her after the actual games demonstration, it wasn't quite the same.
Such is life with horses - stuff like that happens.
That said, and even with the driving rain that decided to settle in just as I arrived to the farm, it was a fabulous day and I'm very much looking forward to the next one.
Arrowsreach Equestrian Day photos
I'm getting back into the swing of this whole riding thing as well. When I took Belle for a gallop down the paddock, there was not one flutter of fear.
This was in stark contrast to last weekend where I got off her within 5 minutes because she was being a total nut case.
Honestly, I'm still getting PTS from the incident last year. Flash backs and the rest...it's not pleasant. Even thinking about it is enough to give me headaches. While time has healed a lot of it, I would have thought that it would have gone away by now *shrugs* I don't know. There's not much a shrink can do to help me get over it now. All I can do is keep working with the horses, and eventually my old confidence will come back, and hopefully the PTS will disappear when it does.
As with anything, knowing where not to push things is the most important lesson.
Being able to show off all the work that we've done with the horses to the general populace was really quite cool. I wouldn't necessarily call it hard work, because it primarily involved bouncing around on horses and being generally awesome, but I quite liked sharing a part of what we are doing up on the farm with others to get them as excited about the project as we are.
Unfortunately two of the horses that we'd also been training with, Nola and Blade, had pulled up lame on the day which meant there were less people that could participate, including myself. Belle (the horse in the green barding) is a wonderful mare, but can get really quite fizzy particularly during the games. While a few of us got to hoon around on her after the actual games demonstration, it wasn't quite the same.
Such is life with horses - stuff like that happens.
That said, and even with the driving rain that decided to settle in just as I arrived to the farm, it was a fabulous day and I'm very much looking forward to the next one.
Arrowsreach Equestrian Day photos
I'm getting back into the swing of this whole riding thing as well. When I took Belle for a gallop down the paddock, there was not one flutter of fear.
This was in stark contrast to last weekend where I got off her within 5 minutes because she was being a total nut case.
Honestly, I'm still getting PTS from the incident last year. Flash backs and the rest...it's not pleasant. Even thinking about it is enough to give me headaches. While time has healed a lot of it, I would have thought that it would have gone away by now *shrugs* I don't know. There's not much a shrink can do to help me get over it now. All I can do is keep working with the horses, and eventually my old confidence will come back, and hopefully the PTS will disappear when it does.
As with anything, knowing where not to push things is the most important lesson.