I have 167 posts in my drafts folder. If I plan this right, I can schedule a year's worth of blogging! Just kidding, I would never do that to you. However, there are a few of those that I think would be fun to share. This post, for example, appears to be the start of a year end recap...for 2015. To set the scene, 2015 was the year I moved back to the coast and took my current job. I still owned Ginger, Bridget was fairly new to me, and it appears I met my current coach mid year. Exciting times! :)
I thought about typing up a 2015 monthly recap type post, but I just don't have the patience to do it. If I don't have the patience to write it, I doubt any one will have the patience to read it either. This year we're going to test out an illustrated version...
January:
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Ginger was living the easy life - once or twice weekly outings, but mostly just hanging out in the pasture looking pretty |
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Midge had been under saddle about 4 months and was doing lots of trail riding, plus some introductory poles. She was pretty angry about actually having to work for a living... |
February:
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Doing lessons 1x a week and trail riding the rest is not helping Ms Bridget or I ride a balanced turn |
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Ginger was getting low stress rides, still on a pretty relaxed schedule due to my own anxiety and preference for riding Bridget |
March:
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Bridget and I went to two (not overly successful) clinics, one 'cowboy' and one dressage. Pony was a bit uptight but a superstar considering it was all new to her. |
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Ginger came along for the trip, but was pretty stressed out and after the not so great experience with Bridget I ended up chickening out and just hacking Ginger on the area trails rather than taking her in the clinics as well. |
April:
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More hacking |
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More weekly lessons. B is (finally!) starting to learn how to carry herself, and even canters a couple of tiny cross rails |
May:
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I got a new job and moved for work, so pony visits were limited to weekends. Where of course we took a lesson, |
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and went for a hack. |
June:
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Bridget said goodbye to her old stomping grounds |
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And hello to new ones. We started weekly lessons with our new coach, and dressage boot camp was kicking both of our asses. |
July:
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Bridget slowly got into reasonable shape |
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And with our coach and barn mates away all summer showing, we spent many hours alone in here doing dressage and tiny jumps |
August:
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Bridget was getting ever fitter, and we started planning for a mini show season: a local hunter cross rail division and a dressage show later in the month doing Canadian eventing Entry level (= US Beginner Novice) dressage tests. Much practice to be done! |
September:
November:
December: 2019 T back in - it looks like I had great ambitions and started my year end recap early and didn't finish it, so I guess we'll never know what happened next. We're all still here so it couldn't have been too bad!
Awwww!!
ReplyDeleteThat is a lot of drafts to have! I wish I had more in my queue - I used to have so many, I think it's worthwhile to polish older posts and post them even if the initial window has passed. Love the photos - thanks for sharing!
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