and finally bought Captain a new halter :-)
and a fly mask
and licorice, lol.

He was good today, fairly...bouyant, I guess is how I'd describe it. He felt like he took up my leg nicely today and was up in front and pretty darn forward. I have a feeling he's going to be one of those horses that's in their prime in their early 20's. Oh and totally ( Read more... )

So I've thus learned that after 3 days off, going out back aka the cross country course is BAD idea. I mean, he really wasn't all that bad, just not..super adjustable.
And by 'not super adjustable' I mean by the time he's half way across the plowed area, he's got A HUGE head of steam and the engine is purring and he keeps going. Around the corner ( Read more... )

Waking up at the ass crack of dawn[4:30 to be precise] paid off in a big way.
Most of our barn wound up going to the show and after Captain loaded with minimum fuss, we were off! Actually, with us and another trainer that's in our area, the two barns combined brought 9 riders!

Of course he went through the normal 20 minutes of acting like girl ( Read more... )

Commencement practice was...less than engaging. I mean it's really NOT that difficult to walk in alphabetic order and keep the same pace, then sit down. Then get up at the pre-decided time and file across the stage when your name's called? Nope, shouldn't be difficult. Huh ( Read more... )

Captain was good, actually really good! Show looks like it's a go on Saturday as long as Zippy is adjusted tomorrow(which Tiffany thinks he will be). I'm considering showing him as T N T Charge if we have to enter horse names...
Bob was there, trimming the rest of Sue's horses. And every.one.of.them he left the heels long. I'm seriously considering ( Read more... )

So, I'm about 99.99% sure that Bob needs to go. Captain was done Friday the 22nd and his feet look like this already...


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Currently, I feel as if my head were punctured by a pin it would explode. I'm super stuffed up and just generally feel like shit, along with having chills. I don't work tomorrow so maybe I'll go up in the morning and see Captain(plus take feetsies pictures!) Aaaand I just remembered I promised a friend I'd stop by his open house, so maybe I'll ( Read more... )

So, the show went well yesterday. Captain of course, was a butt face trying to load leaving Sue's. Let's just say we lip-chained him and I walked him in the trailer and climbed out the window while Sue was in the house, lol. She wasn't exactly *happy* that I climbed out the window and was lectured about how dangerous that is. He redeemed himself ( Read more... )

I'm showing on Saturday :)

I'm still debating on showmanship..Captain is good at it. But I'm doing English Eq(there are no pleasure classes) and Bareback. We played out back aka the cross country course today. What a brave little guy I have! We went out all by ourselves and cantered up and down the hill a few times and hacked through the tall grass ( Read more... )

As of now, it looks like I don't have to work Saturday(again)! There's a little show at the fairgrounds in Mount Pleasant; I just shot Sue a quick e-mail asking if she had room to possibly take Captain and I =) It's a rinky-dink pleasure show, but could be a lot of fun, just to get him out and have some fun. I have no idea if you had to pre- ( Read more... )