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Nov. 15th, 2009 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_crowwell that was... a bit much
Equine Affaire = all things (and I mean ALL things) horse related.
I always think I am part of a fairly small demographic, until I get into something like this. And it is overwhelmingly female too.
I brought my 16 year old friend Rachel, who rides Ruby. She was bug eyed but pleased. She liked the breed building the best, with real live (extraordinarily patient) ponies in it. (many of them did NOT look like examplars of the breed, just the most patient one they could get to stand for the noise and crowds and people poking at them) I managed to connect with Hannah briefly, which was fun. I bought a book, for Rachel, and a friend found me a sheepskin thing to make Bully's saddle fit better so all I had to do was watch clinics, and be amazed at all the stuff.
I am ashamed that I didn't/don't get more from listening to people have lessons. All my muscles fire in sympathy, and I can't sit still and I want to be on a horse trying things. For someone who gets a lot of life from books, I seem to be pretty unskilled at getting riding insights from them.
Equine Affaire = all things (and I mean ALL things) horse related.
I always think I am part of a fairly small demographic, until I get into something like this. And it is overwhelmingly female too.
I brought my 16 year old friend Rachel, who rides Ruby. She was bug eyed but pleased. She liked the breed building the best, with real live (extraordinarily patient) ponies in it. (many of them did NOT look like examplars of the breed, just the most patient one they could get to stand for the noise and crowds and people poking at them) I managed to connect with Hannah briefly, which was fun. I bought a book, for Rachel, and a friend found me a sheepskin thing to make Bully's saddle fit better so all I had to do was watch clinics, and be amazed at all the stuff.
I am ashamed that I didn't/don't get more from listening to people have lessons. All my muscles fire in sympathy, and I can't sit still and I want to be on a horse trying things. For someone who gets a lot of life from books, I seem to be pretty unskilled at getting riding insights from them.