A Great Day...

First it started with Rain being a very good girl. I had to lunge her outside because there was too many people in the ring. She was a little frisky because of the weather, and the fact that she's Rain!

I went to ask Star for something to do, and I ended up organizing some of her office. I was finished with one part so I was going to ask her for something else, but she was on the phone and she can talk for FOREVER! So I just took the lesson sheets and went down to the school barn.

I got Meghan's horse and sent her off. Then I had a couple lesson horses to get. Then it was time for my big group lesson. I had five horses to get for that. I really like when they all come because they are my friends. We all joked and goofed off. But when they left it was time for me to get back to my job. Darn!

I was feeling a little bad about my riding and just a little disappointed in myself. Sometimes it doesn't progress as fast as I'd like it too. And all my friends in my group lesson want me to be in their lesson and I want to also. So I talked to Star so maybe I can improve a little faster and get in their lesson. YAY!

I told you it was a good day! :)

Hunter-Jumper-Forever

RAIN!

Rain went awesome for me today. I got on her by myself with no problems. I don't even need a lunge whip to make her "go" anymore. She is really blossoming into a sweet lovable girl. She and I have really bonded. She loves her treats too!

My lesson went OK. I tried really hard today. I'm getting better. It's hard with Dori because you have to hold her to make her slow down. Also on my way to the second jump SHE WOULDN'T CANTER! Can you tell that I was a bit frustrated?

Oh well. I've got next week!

Hunter-Jumper-Forever

P.S. I'm riding Deirdra on Friday. Wish me luck. Hope I don't get killed. LOL!

I rode Rain again and it went really well! I can stay on the first time and she doesn't buck because I don't let her. I hope she is starting to respect me. Jenn said I need to be a little more tough on her because she has a "tude". Well she is a pony!

I also got to ride Ugly bareback! Star wanted to see if he was still lame, so she told me to slap a bridle on him and hop on! He was still lame which is sad, but hardly life threatening! What was weird to me was that I could feel his spine moving! I haven't ridden bareback in forever so it took me a moment to get used to it.

My shift working in the school barn went well. No mistakes, all went smoothly. I bet you were tired of hearing about all the episodes!

That's it. I've got to go and work on my LOST blog entry.

Hunter-Jumper-Forever

I hit the Wall... Again

You know the story. I was jumping, I didn't steer, we didn't(Dori and I) know were to go, I fell and hit the wall. You gettin' tired of this story? Anyway, my lesson was so awesome! Star had me trot in a straight line not on the rail. Believe me, it's harder than it sound. We also jumped a lot and I did a figure eight of jumps. I'll try to explain. So I would jump a diagonal, then I would jump another diagonal then I would go back to the first diagonal then jump the second. And so on and so forth. I did that about six times. THAT was hard.

Star wanted me to ride Mikey so we could see if he was still lame. That would involve catching him, which is impossible! I yelled, I talked soothingly and did EVERYTHING possible, but that horse WOULD NOT STAND STILL! ARRRRRRG!!!!!!!! I am still angry about it!!!

Bye All! :)

Hunter-Jumper-Forever

Grand Prix

My mom and I went to a big show on Saturday. It was the Capital Challenge Horse Show and Grand Prix. The pony classes had started when we got there. It was soo "fun" to see girls younger than me doing courses on 50 thousand dollar ponies. Well, I'll get there eventually. Also we did some shopping and I got a neckalace with a jumping horse on it, a hard brush, a jelly scrubber, a grooming mitt, and treats. The main event was coming up, so we went back to our seats, which were right in frount of a triple. Those jumps were so high I could walk under them. Kent Farrington and his horse Madison won. It was so cool. I can't wait to do that myself!

Hunter-Jumper-Forever

Mice in the Tack Room!

I was doing my shift in the school barn and I saw so many mice. It freaked me out. I asked people on and off the entire day to come into the tack room with me. Devin(an instructor) didn't seem bothered by it at all!

Rain bucked again as soon as I got on her. Michelle(her owner) said that I need to lunge her before I ride. That's fine because I like too.

I had to get Q out from his field and I didn't know how big it was. It was huge! And he was all the way out there so I had walk all around the field. I'm glad I actually got Q!

Oh and I saw a Practical Horseman in the trash and I asked Star if I could have it and she said yes. Also she said that she would start saving magazines for me.

That was pretty much my day.

Hunter-Jumper-Forever

Never Trust a Sweet Little Blue Eyed Pony

Seriously. Don't. You remember the beautiful pony I get to ride a couple times a week for her owner? Well as soon as I got on her she started bucking. I hopped of because that was my first reaction. Anyway, Rain started cantering around the ring, then she ran out. I ran after her. Then I yelled for Casey, whom I thought was still in the school barn. Katie was in the field and heard me yelling and ran out to help me. Well, we started walking back to the indoor ring and I asked Katie to hold her while I got back on. She seemed to have gotten it all out of her system. So I got back on, we walked around for ten minutes, trotted twice around.

The moral of the story: No matter how cute and sweet they may be, ponies can still be evil.

Hunter-Jumper-Forever

LOST!

My favorite show now. My family and I are watching season one on DVD, and we are almost done with it. Anyway I have spoilers so to anyone who has not watched season one, don't read this.

I am so tired of waiting for the hatch to open that Locke and Boone found. They totally teased us with the glowing door thing. Sometimes the story is incredably hard to follow, because so many thing are happening at once.

I should tell you. All the guys on Lost are so freakin' hot I have to show you pics.

Boone. I was so sad that he died. I really liked him. He was brave and worked hard to show people that he just wasn't some stupid guy, he wanted to work hard. That was hard with his really stupid step sister, she was useless. BTW, He was in love with her. It was hard to figure out why he was jealous of her and Sayid, but then they said the were STEP brother and sister. Sawyer. My Fav! Whatcha think? Smokin' right?

Jack! So serious... Ok so maybe, Seriously HOT!

Sayid. The hot warrior. With the broken heart.

Mr. Eko. The hot drug-lord-turned-priest who always chops wood with his shirt off.

Jin. The reluctant assassin.

Hurley. So adorable I couldn't not put him in!