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dancing_crowDrama r we.
I looked at a horse last Friday, and loved him. A TB/Oldenberg cross, 15.3 gray gelding, 7 years old, 3 nice gaits, worked to Training/First level dressage, some 2'9" courses, was at Stonleigh-Burnham school in the riding program with his person, sensible, flashy, fun to ride. It was awesome. I need a part time job to keep a horse, but I can, in fact keep a horse if I can find part time extremely flexible work. It has to fit around kids, and the proposed horse, and blah blah blah. It is between fun and painful to contemplate the possibility too hard. I'm still waiting to hear back from the potential job.
On Tuesday I had a FABULOUS lesson. A different school horse, unprepossessing to look at but with a lovely floaty trot once we got going round and smoothed out some of the spring ya-yas. I haven't had a nice extended trot for two years, not since Waitefield and Nishy. I have three slightly off feelings about this place. Two are teacher issues; she is young, and I think dressage is not her thing, although she knows more than I do, and she rides much better than I do. The other is just quibbling, but the tack room and the indoor smell funny. The barn is clean and sweet, the hay is nice, but the tack room smells like mildew as does the indoor arena. I could imagine a bottle of Febreeze or a thorough cleaning or even some open windows making a huge difference in the tack room, but I can't think how to improve the indoor offhand, and it kind of bugs me. So I will continue on with the 4 lesson plan and see what happens next. I was offered a chance to hack the schoolies on their off days, which would be fun, so apparently I do well enough to handle the easy cases.
Tuesday I also had yoga class before the lesson and circus class after the lesson. I am still lumpy and not strong enough to do what I think I want to do in circus. I am strong and stable in yoga. Not very flexy though.
I am worried abut committing to one horse, and worried about the financial issues around ownership/care. Other People's Horses are a really nice, easy way to keep riding. But OPH are not the way to develop a relationship with one individual, and hard to compete if I think I am headed that way.
Ah, the drama! Ah, the finances!
I looked at a horse last Friday, and loved him. A TB/Oldenberg cross, 15.3 gray gelding, 7 years old, 3 nice gaits, worked to Training/First level dressage, some 2'9" courses, was at Stonleigh-Burnham school in the riding program with his person, sensible, flashy, fun to ride. It was awesome. I need a part time job to keep a horse, but I can, in fact keep a horse if I can find part time extremely flexible work. It has to fit around kids, and the proposed horse, and blah blah blah. It is between fun and painful to contemplate the possibility too hard. I'm still waiting to hear back from the potential job.
On Tuesday I had a FABULOUS lesson. A different school horse, unprepossessing to look at but with a lovely floaty trot once we got going round and smoothed out some of the spring ya-yas. I haven't had a nice extended trot for two years, not since Waitefield and Nishy. I have three slightly off feelings about this place. Two are teacher issues; she is young, and I think dressage is not her thing, although she knows more than I do, and she rides much better than I do. The other is just quibbling, but the tack room and the indoor smell funny. The barn is clean and sweet, the hay is nice, but the tack room smells like mildew as does the indoor arena. I could imagine a bottle of Febreeze or a thorough cleaning or even some open windows making a huge difference in the tack room, but I can't think how to improve the indoor offhand, and it kind of bugs me. So I will continue on with the 4 lesson plan and see what happens next. I was offered a chance to hack the schoolies on their off days, which would be fun, so apparently I do well enough to handle the easy cases.
Tuesday I also had yoga class before the lesson and circus class after the lesson. I am still lumpy and not strong enough to do what I think I want to do in circus. I am strong and stable in yoga. Not very flexy though.
I am worried abut committing to one horse, and worried about the financial issues around ownership/care. Other People's Horses are a really nice, easy way to keep riding. But OPH are not the way to develop a relationship with one individual, and hard to compete if I think I am headed that way.
Ah, the drama! Ah, the finances!