Hey guys, sorry I havn't updated in SO long.... anyways we finally got the arena finished! We finally got it done (minus the gate) on Tuesday and we rode Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday.... I worked on Chuck with some different things, and we even did some bridleless work, I had one rein clipped on and tied to she saddle horn and used the other as a neck rope, didn't have to use the rein, but I used the neck rope some, but only when we cantered or he didn't respond to just leg at the trot.... I was also happy because I free lunged Chuck in the arena, and I just free lunged him down on one end, and he stayed close to me... he could have run away but he didn't... (at least not until Chance walked in haha) anyways we had a great time.... it will hopefully be less busy these next few weeks so we will have more time to ride.....
2 weeks from today Roni, Nick, and I will be doing something that we have never done before! We will be going on a competition trail ride. Basically its a 2-3 hour trail ride that has I think 6 obsticles that are judged along the way. It will be a new exciting experience for us... and it will be the last big horsie thing that we do this year.....
Another thing I have to update about is my trailer.... Nick looked a little closer at it, and the wood in the manger, and the tack storage area up front was a little rotted, so he took it all out and welded a nice heafty chunk of steel in there, so that it will hold up good. The floor is all good thankfully, so thats what we have been up to lately... Here are some videos of the arena/riding!
Hey guys, so I havn't posted about it yet, so I figured I would post about it now, don't have any videos but I do have the pictures of the ribbons I got at a show we went to a couple weeks ago. Anyways it was my second time showing, but Roni and Nick decided to show for the first time and we all had a blast!!! My first two classes were walk trot and pleasure, and now that im above 16 I am in the senior division, I didn't place in walk trot, but I did get fifth in pleasure, anything above 6th you get a ribbon for, so I got a ribbon for that, then I did trail which nick beat both roni and I at, chuck had a couple of hissy fits but thats okay we worked through it, and theres always next time! Then we went on to barrels and poles, barrels went pretty good considering we got 3rd!!! poles could have been better, it seems in at least 1 speed event every time that Chuck tries to run sideways, that slowed us down but it didn't stop us from placing as I got 4th in that, then we did musical tires, I didn't know that I would have to climb back up on chuck every time so I oppted out for that, Nick beat Roni and placed in that although I can't remember how he did, then after that we did ride and switch, which is where you have to ride down to the barrel hop off and the other person gets on and rides back and its a timed event, I participated as Nicks partner and Ronis partner, with Nick we rode Chuck and with Roni we rode Jack, I thought Nick was going to fall off on the way back, but he made it, the stirrups were set on my length and obviously theres not time to change them, and we did pretty good, I am not used to riding Jack so we only cantered down instead of galloping and Jack didn't like the fast paced stuff to much and it took roni a little bit to get on because Jack was spinning in circles cause we were being crazy and in a hurry, we can definatly work on that though, I don't know what place Roni and I got, but Nick and I placed 3rd, and it was a open class so anyone could enter, we got beat by 2 groups of teen girls one of which goes to my school and is actually in my animal science class. Overall it was a super fun day and im glad we got the chance to go out and have fun. Later tonight I will make a post about what our next adventure will be so stay tuned for that!!!
Hey guys so this is just a short arena update we are almost there! If you don't know we have got all the concrete moved out and have been spending the past week or so picking up the smaller pieces of it, tonight we finished picking up the big pieces (anything bigger than a fist) and tomorrow I get the job of sifting through all the dirt for the smaller pieces while vironica and Nick will fill in post holes then the rest of this week we will finish the fence, so by next week we will have a nice arena to use! The size of the arena is roughly 60 feet by 120 feet although I believe it is slightly bigger than that. Anyways its going to be a nice training tool to use, Nick already has plans to add lights to the arena which won't be hard really just get a couple of yard or flood lights and we will be good although that is going to be later because we still need to get our AC fixed. Anyways heres some pictures and a video for you guys so you can see!!!
The Red part is where we normally ride so the arena is quite a bit bigger than what we are used too....
Hey guys, sorry the video is a day late, so today you get two of them!!! Hope you enjoy them, one of them was made today and one over the weekend, we filmed the last part of We lived just last night (Monday) So be watching for that special part at the end It was a blast filming it!!!
The first Video is pretty good too.... Vironica liked the first one, and suggested the music for We Lived... Like I said more videos to come this week!!! If you don't want to wait to see them, go check them out on youtube!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=womylT4K0nI
Hey guys, so sorry I havn't posted in so long, anyways I finally figured out a new way to get my videos because a long while back my computer crashed so I had to get a different computer, and I lost all my videos, and my usual method of getting my videos that are saved to youtube to my computer is by making a screen video/shot thing with quick time player, but the one on the computer I have doesn't work, and neither does the microphone or camera, so I finally found a different method of downloading music and videos cause I don't have quick time or itunes and such to get music on my computer (heck and even if I did half of its blocked haha ) Anyways I made a few videos this weekend, I hope you like them, and I am going to post one today, one tomorrow and one tuesday and MAYBE one on wednesday, and sometime between now and then I will do a short update on a ride we took last weekend that was really fun and upload the videos from all of that!!!
Hey guys, sorry for not updating, I ment to these past few days but something came up. That something would be my Great Dane Sadie, started having seizures. We took her to the vet and they diagnosed it as epilepsy. She had 2 seizures the first day and 3 the second day, and (thankfully) she only had one today. She got put on medication that she has to have twice a day. It really sucks when she has her bad seizures, she loses control of her back legs and can't use them at all, and with a dog her size its difficult to keep her calm, so ya just gota sit there and try to keep her from getting up cause all she does is slide backwards on her butt into things. Its just no fun cause theres nothing you can do about it and she shakes so bad, and sometimes she whines, and theres nothing you can do, you cant explain to her why she can't stop twitching and shaking, or why she can't move her legs. The meds are sopose to take about a week to completly kick in. Im just glad she only had one small episode today. Thankful for the friends who have been praying that she has a speedy recovery, you know who you are :) and thankful to God for helping me and her stay strong. Its no fun watching your pet go through that, and I wouldn't wish it upon anybody. Thanks again for the prayers from everyone.
This is one of her mild seizures, her legs were shaky but she could kinda stand on her own
Roni and I went riding over Christmas break, and Roni fell off when Jack spooked at the skidloader, (which he has seen only 1000 times and its been used to move hay to feed them the silly bugger! LOL), she had been cantering him he had only been cantered a few times in the past year, so considering that added to the problem, oh well, she got back up, even though her hip and hand hurt, and she cantered him to the left again (left is his good side) and then she went to canter him to the right and we were both pretty happy when he picked up the correct lead right away!!! He almost never picks up the Right lead, usually it takes a couple tries, and he tries to counter canter, but he picked it up no problem!!! They also worked on riding up and down hills, which is good practice to make them think through the hill.
Also I would just like to remind everyone to donate blood whenever you can!! I just went back on friday for my second donation! I was again told I bleed fast, as the whole donation process took 5 minutes and 21 seconds! The person who drew my blood's name was Ben, we talked the whole time, I brought my phone to play on, but I didn't even need it! He had a pen that had a horse head on top, it looked like a really realistic grey horse, and I said I loved his pen cause im one of those horse crazy people and he asked if I had horses and how many I had. Then he told me about how he fell off when he was younger and didn't get back on till he was 24 as a suprise for his fiance, who then proceded to tell him all the stuff he was doing wrong! After that we talked about how Roni would love his watch and lanyard that he had because his watch had a captain America shield as the backdrop, and his lanyard had the avengers all over it. I really wonder how in the world can 38% of Americans are able to donate yet only 4% do? More people need to get out there and do it, all it is is a slight pinch in your arm, and thats it! Its not hard people, don't be squemish about it, it saves lives! Sadly right now because of the weather the center I donate to is on a blood shortage, but you can only donate whole blood every 56 days, so I won't be able to donate till Feb 27, and that is close to our FFA's next blood drive, so I think I will donate platelets instead because you only have to wait 2 weeks, but it takes 1 1/2 to 2 hours to donate because your blood has to be processed through a machine, platlets removed, and the rest of the blood componates put back into your body. But the more you can donate the better! So get out there and donate today!!!
Chuck and I worked on hills too, and he did pretty good, I got him a new hack its a fleece lined hack that looks like this one except the top part of the noseband has fleece on it....
He did amazing, I havn't done much work bitless lately, and he has started getting fussy with the bit, and saving up my money so I can have his teeth floated, but he worked so well in this, I was very happy, normally when we canter, when we first start he will pin his ears back a little, but he didnt pin his ears the whole ride! It was an amazing ride, we worked on flying lead changes, which he is still working on, he gets them about half of the time now, working on really getting him up under himself and collected, because it makes the flying easier for him, and I think hes starting to realize that, we did have a little case of the zoomies, but what do you expect after not being ridden for a month? He is doing pretty dang good if I do say, who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks right?
Anyways here are 2 other videos for you guys, these are of roni, I ment to use my gopro but I forgot to charge it before we got there! So I just took 2 videos of Roni, and I have a picture of the frozen creek, but not on my computer yet, so Ill post that next time...
The first video is riding down the hill by the bees hive and the second is riding up the hill to the hogsback....
