Penny has given me a new challenge/long term goal! Or at least medium term goal. Ultimately, she wants me to be able to slip my foot out of the stirrup and then back in, all while at a canter without needing to stop or slow down or look ( Read more... )

Week 1 (of the saga ( Read more... )

I haven't talked about riding in quite a while here. I have been riding, just not really talking about it ( Read more... )

So riding yesterday was MORE JUMPING, WOO! I still got really nervous ahead of time, but then, once again, it became SO MUCH FUN! This time Penny had three jumps in a row - two maybe one stride apart, and a third two or three strides further. So I would do three laps at a time, for a total of nine jumps at a time, with short rests in between. I did ( Read more... )

Oh grumble. I had a whole post written up and then my browser ate it! So let’s try this again, this time in a text editor so it hopefully won’t get randomly lost for no apparent reason ( Read more... )

Ok, I greatly desire to blather about my riding lesson today, because it was TOTALLY AWESOME AND CAPSLOCK GREAT ( Read more... )

gah. this new posting layout is... disconcerting ( Read more... )