Shows and Jumping

Well life continues as always. Nothing too massively thrilling. This last weekend was a NON horse show weekend, it was amazing. But never fear, for this weekend we have an IHSA show in Washington. Hopefully I draw a good horse, here's hoping! There was another show scheduled for the 26th or 25th or whenever, but I unfortunately can't go to that one. Sad day. I am taking a two credit elective class because I am in desperate need of electives to graduate, and it is on two days over a weekend. That same weekend as the show. Bah! So I probably won't point up to go to regionals because I will only have two rides to do it, instead of four. But that's all right.
In other news, I got to jump Oscar a little bit today! I rode him for equestrian practice...usually he is a butthead ridden in groups in practice, but he was being much better today! So at the end of practice our coach set up a tiny crossbar and was having us trot over. I can tell Oscar loves to jump so much. Very fun! And in my schooling the horse class that I ride Oscar for, I am going to learn how to jump! This week I am meeting up with the coach privately to get a little mini-jumping lesson! YAY! And, I would like to announce, yesterday Oscar walked into the trailer with ZERO, read it- zero- hesitation. We just walked right in, no big deal! Great success :)
Oh and I went over to BeauD's owners place. He has some horses who want to be Bob Marley with the dreadlocks and scaryness. So out of boredom I decided to fix them. I cut BeauD's mane so it was nice and warmblood-y, then pulled it a bit so it wasn't totally uneven and ugly. He looks amazingly better, I seriously need to take a before and after shot. And then....my shameful story.. There is a little Arab at his place, real cute little chestnut with a flaxen mane. But the dreadlocks, oh the dreadlocks. You've never seen such crazyness. But it's an Arab- you can't cut an Arab's mane! It's like...against the law or something. But there was NO untangling that mess, seriously. No hope. So, alas, I took the clippers to the mane and cut out the dreads. And oh it was painful. I am going to Arabian Horse Hell, I think. After I was done with her and tried to even her mane out, she kind of looked like a yearling Quarter Horse. Ha. But I will admit she looked a lot better with a brushed out mane, even it if was cut. And manes grow out, right? Ha, we can only hope!