Gypsy

Okay, I know my last post sounded sad and depressed about my difficult little pony mare. Which largely has not changed. But a day or two ago I was feeling bad about my lack of working my horse, so I went to mess with her. I lunged her in some lines and actually asked her to work a little, stretching that topline and actually coming on the bit. She did great! So shows that teeny short video up there. My phone doesn't like to send videos that are longer than that...

But then I decided what the heck, I'll ride her too. And....she was so good! Wow, it made a big difference really making her work on the ground first, and then just trying to ride quietly. We trotted around, and she was really trying for me to keep her nice frame and be on the bit. I could tell she was getting tired towards the end, and it wasn't a very long ride, but I was very happy with her! It was an exciting moment :) And I had braided her mane all nice and pretty, so she looked good doing it.

Not that any of that will probably convince me to work her more regularly. Sheesh, what a lousy horse owner I am. Ha. Anyways, I am house/dog sitting this weekend, until tuesday. So just chilling. The dogs are all very wonderful and sweet, and very easy to take care of. I love german shephards :) The house is really cute too.

Craziness

Hello all! All of the zero people who read this! It has been crazy at the clinic trying to learn my job. There is so much, it can all be very stressful at times! But I really enjoy it. I got to watch a baby born today, it was awesome :)

Because I've been feeling sort of stressed, I want to do nothing once I get home but relax and sip on tasty apple cider. Which translates to doing next to nothing with Gypsy. Which is so bad for her....but gah. And since I haven't been working her, she is acting silly. She is in wild-pony mode. I go out to feed her twice a day, but oh snort-prance I am a wild crazy pony! So I lunged her at some point last week or this week or something.... Actually got her to think about working up a sweat! I am losing motivation and desire to do anything with her lately. I am falling back into the frame of mind that....she is old and crabby and will never be what I want her to be, I am sick of trying with that mare. I am sure I'll yet again change my mind at some point, but right now... Bah.

Mr Joe Man

Today I went to the barn to work and was asked to lunge a few horses. As I lunged Joe, I realized I have no pictures of cute giant Mr. Joe! So I had to fix that, you know. I wish I knew exactly how many hands he is. Super ginormous. Has got to be 17 hands. I wish I could get somebody to take a picture of me standing next to him to really showcase his hugeness. But I think the pic kinda shows how big his head is next to mine. And he is super lazy on lunge. Its so hard to keep him trotting with any sort of impulsion at all, lol. But I would love nothing more than to ride him. One day maybe I'll ask the owner if I can!

WA State Horse Expo

Okay, don't bug me, I know this is a very late post...seeing as the expo was last month... on the 19th or something. But I am lazy, and I will say I' ve been busy so I haven't gotten around to posting about it. I had been to the Oregon state expo, but this was my first time to the Washington state expo. It was pretty fun, I went with a best buddy of mine. There were different trainers giving demos, a breed parade thing, and different exhibition things.

My friend and I went over to a horse backpacking booth. They showed us how to tie a pack together if you were to load it on a horse or mule. He showed us how to do this crazy knot tie thing on the pack. Then he had us do it! And we did it right! It was super cool. And the mule at their booth was super cute :)

I super enjoyed the performance from the Black Pearl Equestrian Troope. They are a 'drill team' type thing ridden Dressage. They do cool paired dressage (the real name of that escapes me at the moment). Here are some photos (bad quality phone photos). It was very exciting and looked like a lot of fun. A cool part is that the owner of the Vet clinic I now work at rides in the troope!
The first picture I believe is of the horse Marco... In the picture of the pair of Friesians, it is Marco and Jupiter. They are beautiful.

Here is Jupiter meeting the audience after their ride! Ahhh look at that mane! It makes me feel so priviledged and awesome that I get to see this big guy every day that I'm at the clinic! The friesians stay at the clinic barn, so I get to feed and water them :)

This picture of all the horses made me laugh. One of these things is not like the other! One of these things just doesn't belong! The lineup of all the friesians....then an AppaloosaXFriesian cross! I believe the lineup goes... Marco, Jupiter, Tommy, Vogue, then Papparazzi! Adorable!!!

There was also a vaulting show thing. I had never seen it before so it was really neat! There were a whole bunch of young people jumping and doing handstands and crazy pyrimids on top of these great big Belgians! As they cantered around! It was crazy! I took video of it, that refuses to load. No Pictures. A fail for me.

Hmm what else.. Steve Rother was there doing some demos with different horses. I have never watched him before, but I kinda liked him. He seems like a very chill trainer, and is very funny! He was doing demos on making your horse braver, getting them to relax, then had a little show with some trick trained mini horses.

All in all, I thought the expo was pretty cool. Maybe I'll go back next year :)