Fair and Riding

Tuesday was 109... Henry had the day off and we went to the fair instead, crazy I know. But we had a blast so it's all good!

Hubby and my lunch

Wednesday was another hot day, triple digits. Did family stuff during the day and then went to the barn at 8 pm.. it had cooled off to a lovely 85 lol!

There were actually quite a lot of people up there and two lessons going on. The indoor was a DUST bowl... I wonder if they aren't watering it anymore? I haven't ridden in there in a while...

Henry was chill and then crazy... we have a lesson Thursday morning so hopefully he will put his good boy pants on for that!

Technical Questions

Apparently I need to go back to learning how to steer lol!

The weather has been triple digits lately so trainer held a morning lesson Monday.. WS, Kat and I were there. I was a tad later then them because I wasn't quite sure when we were getting on. Luckily WS had a couple horses to ride so I flatted while Kat jumped and then got a private jump lesson which was much needed...

The course changes a tad so here is a new pic :)

Warmed up over the pink X back and forth. 

Then I did the pink X to the orange oxer, right to the green gate, left around to the brown (mustache), right around to the in and out (one stride) red oxer to blue oxer, right to the purple vertical.

After a few times through that trainer broke it down and we did some refining...

We did the red oxer to the light green vertical... I had to come into the in and out (red oxer) straight and turn over it to the light green. I wanted to come in at an angle so that we were pointed at the green but trainer wanted me to not take the easy route haha! It took a bit for us to do it a few times right so that we could move on lol!

Then we did the gray wall to the domino wall (black vertical at the top left corner). Thankfully that was quick ha!

Then we did the brown (mustache) to the purple... i had too much speed so we had to work on really going slow so that I could get the 4 stides in there.

Lastly we did the light green to the red oxer... had to go over the red straight which is harder then you would think, angling it was way easier but not what trainer wanted lol!

It was a hard lesson... but good!

I was SOOOO tired after it. I think I did too much cause I was super shaky and couldn't get off Henry, I had to walk him over to my truck and pretty much fall into the truck to get of. Then I sat on the cool ish concrete floor and Kat so kindly brought me something frozen from the freezer to put on my neck while I drank my water. 

About 15 min later I was able to clean up Henry and get back to our regularly scheduled program.

Horse cleaned, tack cleaned and off to In and Out to meet the hubby and girls! 

I-Am-number one

Bringing back my high school years here...

Susan and Agifthorse you are the winners!!! B wanted to pick a winner too so we have two lol!

Relish in Nelly #1 cause you are!!! lol

Email me at Karleychall at yahoo dot com so that I can get you your prize!

Loved hearing all of your shopping secrets!

Thanks for everyone who participated... this was fun and I will have to do more of these!!

5 of 6

Hubby is on day 5 of 6 for work soooo riding hasn't been possible for me... But I am thankful for his job so I can stay home with our girls!!

Pepper on Thursday says it's too hot!

The girls and I have been at the barn every day tho! I have been pumping Henry with full water buckets and soups (aka equine sr with LOTS of water haha)... I am glad that he is back to himself.

Saturday he got a nice turn out when it had cooled off late afternoon/early evening.. and of course some more soup :)

I also filled everyone's waters with P... we each took a hose and went down the line to make sure everyone is well hydrated.

Sunday we are going to make a special appearance at my BFF from HS's (we are still bff's, fun fact- both my bff's have the same first name, cray cray!) surprise birthday party... so Henry will get a turn out and waters filled. 

Back to the grind Monday!

HG Blog Hopping!

Henry is feeling better! Thanks for all the well wishes! He got a hack today and was back to normal!

Also, make sure to check out the Gofundme for Lauren set up by Tracy, thanks Tracy!

I am jumping on the band wagon for HG Blog Hop!

I love tack, I have a problem wanting lots of nice tack, I think it's an equestrian thing lol!!

I LOVE my saddle! Ordered in in Nov 2014 and got it Feb 2015, best money spent ever! Antares for the win!

I ride in a half pad and baby pad under that, when those are dirty I use a square pad like pictured.

I finally got my Antartes girth from Christmas (they were back ordered) about a month ago so I have been using that... I also have a Wellfleet girth and a Smartpak leather one.

I use a Harwich tie down.

I have too many bridles.. but for every day use I use a Plymouth (smartpak) and for showing I use a Harwich (LOVE LOVE LOVE).

Show Bridle

At home I mostly ride (I ride in a variety of others to school occationally) in a twisted wire full cheek.. at shows a twisted wire D ring.

I always wear bell boots and either Eskadrons all around or polos all around :)

I will have to do this for Grayson when he is all grown up and outfitted :)

700.. Contest Time!!

So now that I hit 700 posts, lets do a contest!! 

Ways to enter:

1. Share on your blog! :) (make sure to tell me if you shared pretty please)

2. Leave a comment and tell me your favorite top to wear while riding.. do you like a tank, polo, sunshirt or ?? Where do you find the good deals?!

I am mostly a polo girl but sprinkle some tanks and sun shirts in there... also I LOVE to wear vests with a long sleeve in the winter :) I try to buy off season when Smartpak or my local shops have their sales!

The contest ends June 30th and the winner will be chosen July 1st.

This is for fun so share away!

I will pick up something fun at the tack store for the winner, haven't decided what yet :)

Banamine

Dear Henry,

Please don't scare me like that... I don't like it.

Mom

I lunged Henry Monday night and he was cray cray... I made sure to walk him lots when he was done so that he was cooled out. He also rolled and was covered in dirt so I had to really clean him up.

Tuesday morning I got a call from trainer that Henry was acting really weird and that I needed to come up there.

She gave him some banamine and I walked him FOREVER when I got there.

He didn't have a fresh poop till almost noon... two more in the afternoon... two more in the evening.

I gave him really really really soupy bran mash and equine sr.

Walked him again in the late afternoon. he was still a little funky but much better then the morning.

Did the last check on him at 8:20 pm and he seemed to be more normal.

Hopefully he is a-ok and back to our regular scheduled program Thursday! (going to give him tomorrow off)

#Renorodoe

Oops this weeks flew by!

I had two lessons and a hack.. then headed off to Reno with the bff, her hubby and my girls to watch her race at the rodeo... she killed it btw :) Won both of her goes!!

Tuesdays lesson was OF and it was good! Hot but good. Henry was a big finiky to start but once we started jumping we were groovin.

Thursdays lesson was on the flat... hard work I tell ya. Ha! But stuff we need to refine :)

Reno was awesome!!

I'll be back in the tack Monday :)

Rodeo Hangover

What a great weekend!!

Saturday and Sunday I was working the grand entry and flags between the events.

Saturday all of our girls showed up, things went ok (a few girls has jitters for the grand entry but we worked through it) and the rodeo moved along. I along with two other people, were rock stars and we got all the flags out between each event and no catastrophes :)

Sunday two girls didn't show up... sooooo I had less then 15 min to get a horse, tack up and go in for the grand entry. Luckily my bff's mom was there with a horse. I know their horses and this one is one in a million, totally do able! I have run flags lots before so I wasn't worried :)

Rocky is the best!

Ran in the grand entry, went back to my job for the back gate, then did the closing flags too.

Great weekend!!

Step Up

Thursdays lesson was with the WS which ment I got (yes got lol) to do all the fun (aka hard) stuff that she does lol. But for real, it was good for Henry and me, keeping up with J!

We flatted around with small interjections from trainer here and there. Of course some lead changes witch we had to "discuss" briefly, thank goodness!

The ground was still a tad slick from the rain so we picked a few jumps that were safe and worked on those.

Warmed up over the rainbow X then we did the purple and white which trainer put up to a more legit height. Then we added in the race care/checker oxer which she made a good size oxer.

We did a course and added in the mustache :)

Henry was mostly great! The first time to the oxer was a bad ride on my part and a few deep spots to the mustache but over all a great ride.

Thanks J for making me step up to ride with you lol!!

Rodeo week is upon us!

SLAC on Firday, hanging out on the backside

Ohhhh and this is my 700th post, I think that calls for a contest.. what do you all think? :)