'riding' Category
rainy day
Raining this morning, so the lesson was indoors. Too bad, as I am just getting the hang of being brave and riding outside. Jumped two consecutive jumps, and it was fun!
blargh!
Today was marked by a horrible lesson in which I couldn’t canter at first and then when I did I was an arrhythmical bag of nerves. Maybe noting it here will help my poor brain go from 150 mph to its usual 110, still pretty fast, but livable.
duct tape hoof slipper
IMG_0065 Originally uploaded by flippybits Timmy has a hoof abcess, so the farrier fashioned an attractive slipper made of Vetwrap and duct tape. Hopefully, Timmy will be back in action next week after the abcess heals.
timmy, that handsome guy
DSC_0165 Originally uploaded by flippybits Finally, an easy way to add pics to the bloggie! Timmy usually looks quite a bit happpier. But it seems to have screwed up the lovely formatting. Will look into this.
blogging just doesn’t get any easier
Somehow updating the ol’ blog is right up there with keeping the area under the bed free of dust bunnies. That said, we had a good lesson today, working on cantering a small vertical at a decent pace. Of course, I had to work on both him and me to get anything resembling a pace. [...]
wow! jumping today for the first time in ages!
I knew it was going to be a jumping day because the flatwork went way too quickly. We trotted and cantered with changes of direction, and then she set up jump poles to trot across and then canter over! I did a little deep breathing, but everything was ok. And then we did a cross-rail, [...]
Poor Timmy!
Well, I haven’t been posting much because lessons have been going pretty well. Up until yesterday, that is. It’s been super cold so I’ve been a lesson-cancelling fool. But yesterday wasn’t bad, so I got to the barn, gave Timmy a quick turnout, and then tacked up. All systems go, or at least I thought. [...]
quick update – knittin’ and ridin’
Had a lesson today on Timmy, and that went pretty well, considering I haven’t ridden for almost three weeks. Oh yeah, and the last time I rode Timmy, we drifted a little to the left, he tripped, and he went down. Not much to do when there’s no horse under you. Oh well, these things [...]
today’s lesson
Rode Austin again today. (I have to get photographs of these guys!) It’s been raining the past few days, so we rode indoors. We worked on the usual ring work but then also turning on the forehand, and then walking then trotting then cantering from that. Over and over. Then we cantered over a teeny [...]
lesson yesterday
I might try blogging a little about my riding lessons as a way to remember their details and sort of organize them in my head. Yesterday, I rode Austin. Deanna was up visiting and rode her horse, Hills-B (is that the spelling?). Anyway, she is an advanced jumper rider who has been riding for 32 [...]