“You do realize the heat index is going to be 115 tomorrow right?”

So my horse show is tomorrow…if I go. I am sitting in the truck, outside the library right now using the internet. I was hoping that when I checked the shows website they would have a post saying that it was canceled. No such luck. I don’t know what to do. TM is okay in [...]

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Show time…almost

So walk/trot and all, TM and I are now entered to show. Yay! We have a dressage schooling show this weekend. It is about an hour away with highway driving, but there is really nothing close by me in the next few weeks (I know, some of you are ready to kill me bitching about [...]

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What level am I???

Okay, I admit it. I am embarrassed of my riding right now. Or should I say, I am embarrassed to be entering a show at the moment. Why? Because I am heeding my trainers advice which means…I am a walk/trot rider this year. There I said it. Man, I even cringed when I typed it. [...]

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High Tech Kicks for my Gennyral

So Genny is feeling like he is not getting talked about enough these days. He is threatening to hurt himself in order to get more blog time so I figured I would preempt that and talk to you all about how Gen is on the cutting edge of technology. I mean, with his stem cell [...]

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The “Three Word” horse show – The End (finally)

TMO kept insisting that she was fine. She was clearly hurting at least a little though and kept rubbing her joints. She took a few tentative steps towards her Granddaughter and gave her a big hug. Once I saw that she was okay, I walked TM over to my truck, clipped on the lunge line [...]

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The “Three Word” horse show – Discouraging – Part 1

I swear I nearly died of shocked when they announced that TM and I had gotten 4th place! In a conformation class! I am still not sure how that happened, but I really did try to get the mare set up to look the best that she could. I think the judge just liked my [...]

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