The holidays are a fun, happy time of year, unless you have annoying family like mine!  Good things can still come out of the holidays though.  About 2 weeks ago my trainer offered me another horse to show over winter, and she is letting me train one of the two year olds at the barn!  Its so exciting, the horse I am getting to ride in named Reno, and he is a huge beautiful black horse that is a super star! :) The filly that I am getting to train is a cute little bay, and she is just the sweet...
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Some of you may know that I have a beautiful red dun paint with zebra stripes.  He hasn't been worked with in a few years because I didn't have the time while I was working with Moe, doing school work, and then working with Bill.  I just started lunging him last week, and he is just a doll!  He gets confused easily, but he is so sweet, and tries so hard when you work with him.  This weekend, I'm planning on lunging him under saddle for the first time in years, and I'll see how he takes it.  H...
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The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting colder, so we all need to prepare for winter!  I have kept my horses at home almost every year during winter, and I give them some much needed time off during the rainy season.  So here are some tips and tricks that I use when keeping my guys at home.

1- Make sure you either have a stall or a open shed connected to their corral so that they can stay out of the rain.
2- Make sure your blankets are water proof, if you put a blanket on that i...
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As many know, horse show girls love their sparkles, glitter, and crystals!  I must say that I am no exception to the rule, to me, the more sparkle on a show shirt, the better!  Sometimes these shirts can cost a fortune (if its a Berry Fit or Showtime for example), and I have a few tips to keep the cost down.

First- Don't underestimate the power of Ebay.  My black and purple horsemanship shirt (which you can see in the gallery) was custom made from a lady off of Ebay, and it was only $150 where...
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There is a woman competing in the games named Laura Goldman, and unfortunately her funds are running a little short for the games.  She needs to come up with about $5000 to cover the costs of competing at the World Equestrian Games, and she just doesn't have the money.  They are reaching out to all of the kind souls out there that love horses and support para equestrians to donate just a few dollars to help get this great lady to the WEGs.  This link has a post about it, and can give you more...
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Gold-n-Grand was a ton of fun, and our barn came away with a bunch of prizes.  I got a belt buckle of Horsemanship, and everyone else got at least one buckle.  V won a saddle along with a bunch of buckles, Lise won a saddle and so did Kathrine.  So it was a very successful weekend! 
They also had this class which was free style trail, and it was hilarious.  Lise told us 30 minutes before the class that we had to turn one of her bay horses into a black Cadillac, and another horse got his mane ...
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The time is finally here for Gold-N-Grand!  The show that I have been working up to for the whole summer!  Moe left for the show grounds on Monday night, and tomorrow morning I will be joining him out at Rancho Murieta.  I can't wait to see him again, and ride him tomorrow, I really hope that he acts good!  Moe is such a little bugger sometimes, he will be perfect one day, and a complete ass the next, he is so odd.  I just hope that this weekend he acts good because it would suck to have all ...
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Today Moe and I worked on patterns, and it was very interesting to say the least.  We worked on horsemanship first, and he is good at doing patterns, but he always takes advantage and puts his head up.  I learned some important little tidbits on my position while doing the pattern too.  I never noticed, but I tend to keep my legs just a little to far out in front of me, and my arm is just a little to high.  Hopefully this will help for when we show at Gold-N-Grand next month!!! 

We also did s...
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Awhile back on youtube.com, one of my friends suggested a video for me to watch, and it was really cool!  I love music, and I love when artists do new and interesting videos.  They don't have to be a giant production, just something heartfelt.  Often times what touches us the most is not all of the pomp, but just the simple meaning laid bare for all to see. 

Anyways, away from my philosophical mumblings, there is this video by Ian Axel, called This Is The New Year.  I really love this video b...
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I was driving home yesterday, and there was this guy that turned on to the same road as me.  At first I didn't think anything of it, he was a good distance away.  When I looked back up into my mirror just about half a minute later, he was about a foot off my bumper, and there was a stop sign ahead so he couldn't pass me.  Feeling kind of evil I went really slow after the stop sign and he was still following me.  I usually go about 5 over the speed limit, but this time I was about 5 under.  Th...
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Its so hot in California!  At least there is a bit of a breeze and lots of trees (that rhymed :).  So my life has been pretty interesting recently!  I heard some drama about a friend, and what happened with her really makes you lose trust in a person.  You think you know a person, and then they do something that is so out of the blue it just shocks you. 

The fourth was fun, lots of good fireworks! It was kind of funny because where we were we could see Vacaville first then Dixon then Davis' f...
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So I'm going to Elko for a show, so that's going to be fun!  I haven't gone that far away for a show before, so it will be different, and also super fun :).  I think we will do really well because he has improved so much!  We did pivots on the forehand today, and he was so good after he had a little fit.  He was also really good with the trail today, he did the 3-3 boxes perfectly :).

The Tour de France started today, and you should all watch it!!  And of course you all need to watch the World...
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I went and rode today, and Moe was perfect!  He was nice and slow and he kept his head super low!  Though he is still and idiot when it comes to trail.  I was jogging him over poles, and he still tick them and he has the widest turning radius of any horse.  Tomorrow I have a trail lesson, and I'm so nervous!  I have never actually had a western lesson until I took Moe over to the barn, so this will be my first proper trail lesson.  I haven't even shown in an actual trail class, so it will be ...
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The AQHA world is making some great, and needed changes.  In Novice classes, you can now show any horse, so that will make things much better for those showing in Novice Youth and Novice Amature classes.  Also, you may have noticed, but horses that don't have the heads in the ground and the people that actually have a good solid lope, not a 4-beat gait, are winning classes.  People are actually showing horses with long manes, and winning in western pleasure! Next thing you know people won't b...
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So I am assuming many have already seen this movie, because as always I have put viewing this movie off for no apparent reason.  The movie is P.S. I Love You.  It was very sweet and heart warming watching "Holly" try to get her life back on track after her husbands death.  I am not usually a fan of Hilary Swank because I usually spend the whole movie looking at her horse face, but I thought that she was really great, and portrayed the character beautifully.  The letters that she receives thro...
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