Skip to main content

Family & Media!

This weekend, I got the pleasure of my Aunt coming into town. She was coming to see the family, but she also loves horses. Oh and she is an awesome photographer. I hope you see where this is going. I was thrilled to have her in town to begin with, but doubly thrilled when I realized she brought her fancy camera!


Finally some new media! The timing was perfect, because I also got Charmer clipped this weekend and it made him look a lot nicer in the photos! Clearly we are both a little out of shape, but I loved getting some media anyways!


He warmed up the best he has in a long time - soft, relaxed, pleasantly forward, and he was moving off of my right leg really well (we have been struggling with this for a while now). Knocked his laterals out of the park, and didn't go to pull on me or buck more than one time.


I even got to pull out a bunch of new outfit stuff for both of us! Our OTTB Identity shirt, newest Piper breeches, new Majyk Equipe boots & new Nunn Finer figure 8 (go die in a hole stupid HDR bridle I had before!).


I'm about 95% sure that Charmer's perfect attitude was because of our super coordinated outfit and the fact a camera was out. I swear this horse loves the camera. Even when the neighbor dogs came out barking and roughhousing, he didn't bat an eye. I was super impressed to say the least!

So I finally decided to pull out a jump for the first time in over 5 months (wow, can't believe it's been that long!). It also happened to be the first time we jumped at home, ever. I figured it might go well, because he felt great, and at least if I died, we would get it on camera.


But of course, I shouldn't have doubted my big bay creature, because he was foot perfect. I need some reminders on how to do everything, but he took every jump in stride without batting an eye, and any issues in his form were all 100% my fault.


Since we are both rebuilding fitness (okay, me more than him), I kept the jump low and we only went over it about 15 times, and I made sure to end on one of the best jumps all day. If he can keep up this calmness, we will definitely kill it in the show ring this year (provided I can actually figure out my stupid schedule so I can ride!).

All smiles, all the time with these two

Wonder intently watched our whole ride. I'd like to think he is taking notes. But probably not. Little kid is hopefully going over his first fences in the next couple of weeks! Just gotta find the time and set something up. I'm hoping to con someone into jump crewing for me so I don't have to worry about getting on/off to fix any jumps he takes down.

Charmer humored me with a mini photoshoot

So thrilled that I got some stellar media this weekend, and I cannot wait until April when my Aunt comes back again so I can get even more media! Hopefully some nice photos with Wonder next time too!


Also she took this amazing shot of Charmer & I which I am super in love with!

Comments

  1. Great photos!! I'm a little in love with those breeches too, haha.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. They are probably my new favorite breeches. You just can't beat that color!

      Delete
  2. aww these pictures are great!! Charmer is looking GREAT right now too!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Man, the coordinated outfit is PERFECTION! Ya'll look great!!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. We take our color coordination very seriously around here! Thank you!

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Organization

So, as most of you know (the 3 of you that probably even read this blog haha), I keep my horses at home. Which is amazing ! But it has also opened up a world of changes. For the first time, I am 100% in charge of my horse's care. Only about 6 weeks after Charmer moved home, I rethought his entire diet and we took practically a 180* turn. His hay got switched. Grain got switched. I changed a few supplements for short term use that I have now cut out. I think the result is him looking and feeling better than ever.  Old picture. Cutest expression ever. But along with being 100% in charge of my horse's care, means I am also 100% in charge of giving everything a place, making sure everything stays organized, and being always vigilant about making sure my horse has enough of everything he needs. Which honestly, I quite enjoy! But it is a lot of organizing. I make kind of DIY Smartpaks in baggies for both of my horses (although I'm really intrigued to try  this i...

Karen O'Connor Clinic

So, as you may have gathered from the title, I did in fact make it to the Karen O'Connor clinic this past weekend (yes I'm very late on this post...we just won't talk about that). Spoiler alert, it was amazing . Epic water shot (I've always wanted one of these) Day one was SJ work. We were in the BN group, and Banner was wonderfully bored with everything we did. Karen honed in really quickly on what everyone needed to work on, and we were no exception. Her first, and biggest note for me was that I need to get the impulsion from Banner sooner, but be a better manager, because he can quickly go from impulsion to impulsive.  Banner and I only did each exercise once, which can easily feel like you got overlooked, but I know from watching Karen several other times, that if you only do it one time, that means you did it right. I felt like we got some good notes and work, and I honestly felt awfully proud & happy that she didn't feel the need to dril...