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infiniteandsmall) wrote2013-09-10 12:29 am
infiniteandsmall) wrote2013-09-10 12:29 am
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I met the horse that I might be riding soon! She's so cute, oh my god. She's about fifteen hands, a dark bay Morgan. She's still pretty young and green, but I watched her test and she's very willing and a nice mover. Sometimes she puts her head up very high and kind of slides a little into a more saddleseat frame (she was trained and showed in saddleseat classes and now her owners are trying to work with her and show her in dressage shows), but for the most part she looked very nice. She also apparently has a very soft mouth--I was checking out her tack and her bit's a french link snaffle, and T, her leaser who wants me to ride her a day, mentioned that she didn't like the snaffle and they thought it might be the nutcracker action. I guess there's another leaser who doesn't want me riding the horse, so T's trying to work something out with her and the trainer. I think I'm going to take some lessons with her trainer, which would be weird because I haven't had a proper lesson with another trainer for like three years.
I had a lesson tonight, though, and I was really pleased with how it went. I was riding one of the schoolies, Spike. He's a huge awkward gangly part-throughbred. The first time I rode him I asked the Monday groom at the time (she was awesome but sadly left for college; I have her job now) about how he was/if she had any tips. She said, "he's basically like riding a bus. A big grey one who can't keep track of his feet," which is pretty much accurate. I was trying to get him to come in a bit more from his hindquarters, and then soften and unsoften the reins to make him work the bit a little, and my instructor told me that I was doing the right thing, which made me YAY. And then she said that I needed a little more contact, but not to shorten my reins but to bend my elbows and bring my hands back to my body, and I could literally feel an immediate difference in my upper body position. My lower leg position is actually pretty good, it's my upper body I need to work on, which is something that I haven't noticed as much, since most of my friends and my sister have more lower leg issues. I need to close my grip a little more and bend my elbows more, so I have something concrete to work on!
Also: our hay has been SO SHITTY lately, and I've heard that our supplier had to go all the way to Kentucky to get it?! And it's 8.50 a bale?! WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE. All the boarders were bugging me about it the other day, and like. I CAN ONLY WORK WITH WHAT I'VE GOT GUYS.
I've been listening to Ariana Grande lately, and WOW. I am blown away by her voice. It's so Mariah and beautiful and wow. I really like her style of pop, optimistic nineties stylish R&B with a little bit of Motown once in a while. Also she's like so adorable and hot at the same time how? NOT EVEN ASHAMED NEW POP DIVA CRUSH.
Also figured out how to play the start of MeGaLoVaNia on the piano but then there's a part where I'd kind of want two hands because IT WOULD SOUND SO GOOD but no one else I know really plays the piano and would be on board for some Homestuck songs? Jealous of people who know fandom people in real life. So far I've talked about fandom to two of the girls at the barn (they're both queer too they both rock so much), but none of them are really into Glee (they casually watched seasons 1&2 but were never really fannish about it), and both of them started on Homestuck and had no idea what was happening and thought it was dumb.
Like.
NO.
JOHN IS SO CUTE AT THE START?
And it gets EVEN BETTER LIKE CRAZY GOOD.
Oh guys. GUYS.
But anyways.
Also I finally got around to watching Kanye West's VMA performance and wow. I see why no one was really talking about it because I can't think of anything to say about it either, but it was amazing and powerful and really really great.
I had a lesson tonight, though, and I was really pleased with how it went. I was riding one of the schoolies, Spike. He's a huge awkward gangly part-throughbred. The first time I rode him I asked the Monday groom at the time (she was awesome but sadly left for college; I have her job now) about how he was/if she had any tips. She said, "he's basically like riding a bus. A big grey one who can't keep track of his feet," which is pretty much accurate. I was trying to get him to come in a bit more from his hindquarters, and then soften and unsoften the reins to make him work the bit a little, and my instructor told me that I was doing the right thing, which made me YAY. And then she said that I needed a little more contact, but not to shorten my reins but to bend my elbows and bring my hands back to my body, and I could literally feel an immediate difference in my upper body position. My lower leg position is actually pretty good, it's my upper body I need to work on, which is something that I haven't noticed as much, since most of my friends and my sister have more lower leg issues. I need to close my grip a little more and bend my elbows more, so I have something concrete to work on!
Also: our hay has been SO SHITTY lately, and I've heard that our supplier had to go all the way to Kentucky to get it?! And it's 8.50 a bale?! WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE. All the boarders were bugging me about it the other day, and like. I CAN ONLY WORK WITH WHAT I'VE GOT GUYS.
I've been listening to Ariana Grande lately, and WOW. I am blown away by her voice. It's so Mariah and beautiful and wow. I really like her style of pop, optimistic nineties stylish R&B with a little bit of Motown once in a while. Also she's like so adorable and hot at the same time how? NOT EVEN ASHAMED NEW POP DIVA CRUSH.
Also figured out how to play the start of MeGaLoVaNia on the piano but then there's a part where I'd kind of want two hands because IT WOULD SOUND SO GOOD but no one else I know really plays the piano and would be on board for some Homestuck songs? Jealous of people who know fandom people in real life. So far I've talked about fandom to two of the girls at the barn (they're both queer too they both rock so much), but none of them are really into Glee (they casually watched seasons 1&2 but were never really fannish about it), and both of them started on Homestuck and had no idea what was happening and thought it was dumb.
Like.
NO.
JOHN IS SO CUTE AT THE START?
And it gets EVEN BETTER LIKE CRAZY GOOD.
Oh guys. GUYS.
But anyways.
Also I finally got around to watching Kanye West's VMA performance and wow. I see why no one was really talking about it because I can't think of anything to say about it either, but it was amazing and powerful and really really great.
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Oh yeah, hay is spendy!! I buy alfalfa and grass, and have paid up to $10 a bale. :(
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Wow, that's rough. We have about sixty horses and we go through about fifteen bales per feeding. I'm not sure what kind of hay we have now (*whispers* crappy hay)
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Just make sure it's not coastal bermuda grass (which is essentially all they can grow south of Kentucky). That stuff isn't just awful nutrition-wise, but it's so small-stemmed that it causes a lot of stomach discomfort and colic in horses not used to it. We got stuck with a wagon-full after my barn's hay supplier ducked out of my trainer's deal last minute and she couldn't find anything else she could afford. A lot of horses had problems on it, including mine.
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We haven't had any schoolies colic all summer except for one, and that was because he got too worked up in the paddock and then snuck some grass under the fence, the Thoroughbred. Which is weird, because a lot more coliced last summer and the hay was so much nicer.