And just like that, it’s over.

I'm sitting in in the Orlando airport waiting to board my flight to Salt Lake City and then on to Seattle. Headed home at last! This summer has been intense. It's been three and a half months of the hardest work of my life. It's been a summer of insane growth for me. It was...

Complexities of Learning

As I began to ponder this blog post and what it would contain, I became stumped. I want to say that I have been learning a lot, because that is true, I have been. But it's not a kind of learning that I can put into words to tell you about. There are no words...

There Is a Toad In My Shower and Other Adventures

Week one has been quite the experience! At Joe Meyer Eventing I have been working many long days in the Florida heat but it's all worth it when I get to ride (usually) five horses every day. Now some of those rides are simple hacks out around the property, or trot sets of ten minutes,...

Updates and Things to Come!

Now its been just over a year since my last post and lots has happened. I named this blog The Sporadic Journal of a Horse Girl with a heavy emphasis on the sporadic part, because, as everyone knows, life gets busy. But in just a few days I start out on another adventure and I...

Day 204

Day 204. 170 hours so far. Horse training may be very rewarding but it is full of frustration. We take this thousand pound prey animal and have to teach it to perform like a machine. Sometimes you label progress in firsts. We all have those firsts, it just matters how well they are handled by...

Day 104

Day 104. 100 hours so far. We took our first walk outside of the paddock this week! Going from the round pen into an area that is just fenced with a very thin hotline. O though it was marvelous to be exploring this woodsy little area. He was very good at staying right next to...

Bua saddle review

After years and years of riding in a thirty year old Wintec all purpose saddle I spent this summer researching and trying different saddles. I was about ready to order a custom Hastilow Concept Jumper when my mum stumbled across the BUA saddles. Antheia is my main horse and her comfort is very important to...

Day 72

Day 72 76 hours so far. Chatting with my mother about her experience of starting mustangs, there have been some interesting comparisons. While O took a long time to let me touch him, and then halter him (compared to the day or two that the three previous mustangs took), he is actually much farther along...

Antheia Updates

While my blog has been flooded with posts about Occasio (because thats what originally had me create this blog) Antheia is still my girl. I somehow manage to find time after school and before homework to both ride her and work with O. Looking at photos from a year ago I can see that we...

Day 48

Day 48. 56 hours so far. We are finally over the hardest part! I think... At this point O will follow me around his paddock. I can halter him pretty reliably. He leads well. I can pet him more and more each day. He is finally starting to trust that this is a partnership, not...