Jump Start to 2021
Poor May. I am about 90% sure she is ready to go on strike now that we have settled into California and into a training program. Tuesday - Tuesday last…
5 Comments
January 13, 2021
A Tale of Two Jump Lessons
I am a bit behind in my posts. As life turns out, selling a home, buying a home, and moving 2,000 miles is not conducive to also working, riding, and…
September 4, 2020
Photo Courtesy of Xpress Foto
2020 IEA Horse Trials – Cross Country
Usually, I am a good blogger, and I take wonderful pictures of all the XC jumps during my course walk. However, since this weekend was SO BUSY for my trainer,…
August 12, 2020
Photo Courtesy of Xpress Foto
2020 IEA Horse Trials – Show Jumping
Unless otherwise noted, all riding photos in this post are courtesy of Xpress Foto. So after Dressage, we had a bit of time to sit, wear a mask, get changed,…
August 11, 2020
2020 IEA Horse Trials – Dressage
Oh gosh. I have so much to say about this show. I figure I will write about each phase and then do a wrap up post. But before all that,…
August 10, 2020
XC Schooling – Stone Creek Stables
After a momentous amount of rain last week, I was pretty convinced that we were going to have a 0% chance of XC schooling. The footing near us was wet,…
August 3, 2020
Playing Catch Up
Unsurprisingly, as basically every aspect of my life has gotten exponentially busier, blogging has fallen a bit by the wayside. In a lot of ways, riding has too. Up until…
July 31, 2020
June 2020 – Spring Run Mini Trial – Show Jumping
We had a super quick change after dressage. (Exactly an hour between our dressage time and our SJ time and XC ran right after SJ.) So I ran back to…
June 25, 2020
June 2020 – Spring Run Mini Trial – Dressage
The morning of our show started hot and muggy, but it didn't matter. We had a horse trial to go to! After our great schoolings lately, I was pretty excited…
June 24, 2020
XC Schooling – FINALLY
Not sure if anyone remembers at this point, but we were originally entered to run our first horse trial of 2020 in April... Originally, the horse trial this weekend wasn't…
June 16, 2020