Ready for the Club!!!

Today was a great day at the farm! This morning we got a feed delivery which meant a visit from Logan and Randy who were as always delightful. lol Later Pickles decided he was a jumper of olympic proportions and jumped out of his pasture into the pasture boarders pasture, which he also jumped out of! After Pickles was caught and accounted for Holly and I went into town for lunch and a trip to the bank. When we got back we fed and waited for our lesson to start. When it was 5:30 and time to start it was still raining so Niki, Sarah, and I had an unmounted lesson and learned all kinds of neat tricks to improve our riding! By the way we need to welcome Sarah and Lexi to the group! They are both very nice and lots of fun, and will be riding with us in our big group lesson. After it stopped raining we all got on bare back and had the rest of our lesson. We trotted and practiced our emergency dismounts from the walk and trot. I even did one from the canter by accident. I rode Amador, Niki rode Tansey, Sarah rode Riley, and Lexi rode Pickles. We had so much fun as you can probably tell from the pictures. Niki fell off when Tansey spooked but was a real trooper and got back on, mud and all. Way to hang in there Nik. Amador wore a bareback pad with purple flames all over it was so cool and we were all joking about him being ready to go out on the town and that he looked like a pimp lol (hense the name of the post) Enjoy the pics!

Rain Rain Go Away

Yesterday was good we made it through a whole day of camp before it poured rain! Thank goodness. However today camp will be a little tough as a result of all the rain we got yesterday and last night. Yesterday Sean came out to do stalls and after I was done with camp the both of us sat down with Holly and analyzed our horse show video from Clemson a few weeks ago. Thanks to the Friedmans we had a tape of every class we had ridden in to look at what we had done either right or wrong. Later a group left to go to the Raleigh Equine Extravaganza. So we are here holding things down and praying they get home safely with all there new knowledge. Here are some pics from the past week one is of Winston despretly trying to get to the grass and the other is of Niki helping a camper to tack up.

New Kids and a New Horse

Okay, okay so I know I haven't posted in forever but camp is this week and life has been crazy but it's better late than never I guess! Anyway camp is going well. It rained on Monday but we avoided the rain today for the most part. W are all getting ready for the jumper show at Middleton and we are all very excited to get dressed up and go all out! Niki will show her other horse Squeeks in junior x-rails and junior 2'. Paula is showing Jack in Junior 2'3'' and Junior 2'6''. Emily will show in Junior/Amateur 3' and Junior Amateur 3'3''. Kaijsa will show in the Junior 2'9'' and the Junior 3'. And our good friend Ann might come with Storm as well but nothing is definite yet. We are all working very hard! We also went on a trip to find a horse for Randy last weekend and ended coming home with a little appy gelding named Cayenne. He is great, very cute and great to handle. Here are some pics of him as well as of camp. Enjoy!!!

Even the Trainer Rides Sometimes

Hey yall. Today was a good day full of learning. Shelton and I moved hay bales from the gray barn to another, then Kaijsa and I went with Holly down the road to see Holly's horse Tommy and watch Holly ride. Later after arriving back at the barn Kaijsa and I rode and fed. Later after Kaijsa had turned her out Em decided to go bush whacking in the pond on her quest for the best grass! haha check out the pics

Boredom and Braids

From Tuesday
Today Kaijsa, Niki, and I went out to the farm for our lesson but were really bored beforehand so as a product we ended up playing with Pickles mane, taking random pictures, and going to visit Amelia at our favorite place Cainhoy Feed and Seed! We took lost of pictures as you can tell. Gift got a visit from the vet and she stood patiently while she got blood drawn for her coggins. Later that day we all had our lesson and it was great! We all rode dressage and learned how to ride a 20 meter circle. Kaijsa showed her and Em's mad skills and showed us all up! They were both amazing. I rode Gift and discovered that despite the pain dressage is alot more fun than I thought it was going to be. Niki and Tansey struggled at first but as always pulled through.

All Tacked Up and Nowhere to Go

This is from Monday.
Kaijsa, Niki, and I were at the farm and were looking for something to do when we decided to play with Rizzie. Well he was being super good when we put the saddle on him so we decided it might be a good idea to try putting a bit in his mouth. He was really great! We rode bareback as well. Here are some pics. Enjoy!
P.S. There is also a pic of Amador and Lokey!