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[Hanoverian]

I was still trying to get used to his bouncy trot, and for some stupid reason arching my back makes me a little more balanced. I don't know why... I was getting unbalanced a lot in the beginning so that's probably why I wasn't with him at some point. Thanks Hano! I really appreciate it. My jiggly leg has always been an ongoing problem, and Mr.Bouncy's trot didn't help. Are my stirrups at the correct length?

Lol, I wanted some nice stuff but I tried to stay in the small price range. I'm paying for it all myself, it only came out at about $250 so I can afford it. I've been saving all of my christmas/birthday/allowance money for a few years and so far I have about $400. I think my parents wanted to pay for it but it felt really rude to ask them. So I'm just paying for it all. xD I mean, they're paying for me to half lease Riley, and they payed for my show clothes.
Eskadrons are so nice! But expensive! I can't believe that my boots were the most expensive thing I bought.

Yeah, his trot is super nice and hunter-y! ;D That bounce is good. Kat kinda does the same thing - he has a lot of motion through his whole body, which is good in an athletic sense but can be hard to ride, so I feel for ya. xD You get used to it, though.
I'm sure that all of those little flaws will be fixed in no time once you get used to him.
I think your stirrups are fine for the flat, but I'd put them up a hole or two for jumping. C:

That's great that you're paying for it yourself and that you've saved so much! I'm the same way - I have about $2,000 saved now, but I'm super stingy with it because I'm saving up for a horse. xD It's so tempting, though, I'm always stalking SmartPak and Dover and Equestrian Collections and my local tack shop... along with BigEq.com and WarmbloodsForSale. lol.

[classi]

He is a really awesome hunter... I know I'll get used to his trot eventually. It was just bouncing me out of the saddle because I'm used to non-huntery school horses. I will never say that Winnie's trot is bouncy again. xD
I won't be jumping for a while, lol. xD
See, if I ever get my own horse, my parents will pay for it. So I think it's fair that I buy my own stuff, you know? Because horses are expensive. Although I'm not getting a horse any time soon, and I'm extremely content with half leasing Riley. I know that right now I am not ready to own a horse. Half leasing actually sounds more appealing than owning right now, honestly. xD Call me crazy, but I simply don't have enough time to be at the barn six days a week.
I stalk SmartPak and Dover so much. o.o

Crud! I was reading more about martingales and apparently I need a donut stopper thing. I have to wait until my parents get home and then we'll order some.

I am so scared that I'll show up with my new stuff and my instructor will be like, "that's not the right stuff." Especially the bridle, because apparently you can't send it back because I put a nameplate on it. o.o Oh well. If it comes broken I hope Smartpak is nice.

[Dolphinlover~]

@rain: Glad to hear your ride on Riley went well. It sounds like you guys are really ment for each other, and I am so happy for you that your half lease pulled through <3 Good luck with him, and I am sure you guys will go far. I will check out the videos and pictures and critique them too. Riley looks handsome.

The 'new' way you were taught to ask for canter is how I have always been asking for canter. My trainer would always teach me to sit 'in', bend the horse to the inside, push a tiny bit with your seat (no pump though), and squeeze with your outside leg. It has always worked marvously for me on Mulligan. If every single thing is correct when I ask Mully to canter he steps into it right from the walk <3 That's my man. If one thing is a bit off though he won't do it. And wow you bought a lot of stuff o.0 I can't believe you have to buy your own bridle, boots, and martingale for him. I have never heard of anyone having to do that if they just half lease. All of the horses at my barn have their own bridle, girth, martingale (only if needed), and boots (if needed). Oh yeah, they also have their own halters too. The only reason I have a halter is because Mully and I won it, and then I just bought a lead so I can use it. Before getting a bridle on your own though I would have consulted with my trainer and Riley's owner to make sure it will fit and be OK. I hope everything fits though. I would love to get Mulligan all of that stuff though, but his owner already spoils him, and I try my best to spoil my man too <3 Good luck ;D

@Hano: It sounds like you had a fun ride on Sly. Sorry about the rain /: You are doing a great job with all of the greenies though, and you should be so proud. You really are an outstanding rider.

Oh your getting a tack trunk?!? Exciting!!! I want one so badly, especially with all of the stuff I have now. I just have a corner of my room dedicated to my horse stuff xD

@Saving money: I think I have over $300 saved right now, but I am still saving money xD When I get money my parents like for me to put it in the bank though. I am not allowed to use the money from the bank for horse stuff though. Around me it's very hard to get a job at my age so I have to just wait to get money for my birthday, holidays, good grades, etc. Working at Dover this year was amazing though, so that extra $144 will go to good use xD WOW, Hano you have saved a TON of money o.0 Lucky girl. I never buy anything with my money though, I just save it for horse stuff lol.

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I am so happy, I get to have a lesson on Mulligan tomorrow. I haven't ridden or seen him since Sunday -- which is a long time for me since I'm used to seeing him three times a week xD I am glad to be back though and I hope my lesson goes well. I just realized, this will be my last lesson before our show on September 8th! I am getting really excited. I will bring my camera and try to get some good pictures of Mulligan and ask my mom to take pictures of us :3 I am pretty proud of myself though, while I was on vacation I power walked a total of thirteen miles and jogges 5+ blocks 8D Yep, keeping my muscles in good shape. Somehow I powered through the jogging by telling my myself "this is for Mulligan, for riding, for Mulligan" yeah that sure helped a lot xD

[classi]

@ Dolphin; They gave me a list of stuff to buy, so I know the style is correct. I don't think it will all come in time for Wednesday, though. /: My next lesson is on Wednesday. I'll be riding Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, but I won't be riding this Tuesday because I'm not ready for a hacking day yet.

[Hanoverian]

He is a really awesome hunter... I know I'll get used to his trot eventually. It was just bouncing me out of the saddle because I'm used to non-huntery school horses. I will never say that Winnie's trot is bouncy again. xD
I won't be jumping for a while, lol. xD
See, if I ever get my own horse, my parents will pay for it. So I think it's fair that I buy my own stuff, you know? Because horses are expensive. Although I'm not getting a horse any time soon, and I'm extremely content with half leasing Riley. I know that right now I am not ready to own a horse. Half leasing actually sounds more appealing than owning right now, honestly. xD Call me crazy, but I simply don't have enough time to be at the barn six days a week.
I stalk SmartPak and Dover so much. o.o

Crud! I was reading more about martingales and apparently I need a donut stopper thing. I have to wait until my parents get home and then we'll order some.

I am so scared that I'll show up with my new stuff and my instructor will be like, "that's not the right stuff." Especially the bridle, because apparently you can't send it back because I put a nameplate on it. o.o Oh well. If it comes broken I hope Smartpak is nice.

I would love to be riding 6 days a week even if it means giving up my social life, lol. Sorry, friends, but I choose a horse over you... that makes me sound like a jerk, but it's sadly true. :p
I love, love, LOVE SmartPak! Especially how you get free shipping on orders over $40.

I'm sure that your trainer won't mind. The stuff you ordered is pretty standard.



@Dolphin:
Aww, thank you so much <33 That is so nice of you to say!

Well, I'm getting to borrow my trainer's until I get my own. My dad is going to make me one, though! We're ordering this plan tonight so he can start building as soon as possible. C: I'm going to try and help, but I"m not sure how helpful I'll be, lol.
Yeah, I have a ton of stuff too. I'm currently organizing all of my buckets, treats, brushes, sprays, polo wraps, saddle pads, boots, crops, spurs, hairnets, etc so I can move it in tomorrow.


That's great that you have that much saved! Around here it's illegal for someone my age to get a job. xD I get $5 a week as allowance, money for birthdays/holidays, babysitting/petsitting/housesitting money, and $10 an hour when I work for my mom at her landscaping business thingy. So I've saved up quite a bit, lol. I only spend it on horse things when I actually spend it. Usually lessons xD

[classi]

I would love to ride six days a week too, because I am so shy that I don't have a social life, but my teachers decided that this year they were going to give me at least two hours of homework every night. I clean my stuff after I ride, and that takes a long time. It takes about an hour to tack and untack, and it takes an hour to ride. So that's about 3 to 4 hours of horses. I get home at 4:00. I have to get to bed by 10:00 at the latest. I have two hours of homework. Nope, that doesn't work out, because I have to eat dinner, and you know... do stuff. D: Homework is so irritating.

[tiny]

@ saving money, I think I have around $400 in the bank right now for horse things, but also getting an income of $100+ a week. It's hard to get a job around here at my age, but somehow I managed- I'm right at the minimum age for working. I used to just work for my dad (also for minimum wage =_=) but he's kind of run out of things for me to do, therefore I got this job o3o

I pay $125 a month for lease right now and I actually don't have to spend that much on horse things as of now. I do have to fork out some for jump making though- for the PVC and 4x4s I need for the standers.

I'm horribly stingy with money though, which is something horses have taught me. Since I pay for everything, I never buy anything that I don't need, so basically I only spend money on horses and gas.

Gas takes out a huge chunk of my money though D:

[Hanoverian]

I would love to ride six days a week too, because I am so shy that I don't have a social life, but my teachers decided that this year they were going to give me at least two hours of homework every night. I clean my stuff after I ride, and that takes a long time. It takes about an hour to tack and untack, and it takes an hour to ride. So that's about 3 to 4 hours of horses. I get home at 4:00. I have to get to bed by 10:00 at the latest. I have two hours of homework. Nope, that doesn't work out, because I have to eat dinner, and you know... do stuff. D: Homework is so irritating.

Yikes, that's a lot of homework! Well, I get around that amount too, but I get home from school at 3:30. I do homework on the 30-minute ride to the barn and 30 minute ride back... that's about 1 hour of homework done. Then I spend about 3-4 hours at the barn, not counting drive time, so I get home around 7-730. We eat at about 8, giving me a half hour to clean off my boots and take a shower (I've mastred the speed shower), then we eat, and thennnn I finish homework and other crap and end up in bed around 10:30, giving me about 8 hours of sleep before I wake up at 6:30 and start the whole cycle over, lol.
Wow, that was a lot of pointless crap that no one should have to suffer through reading. xD


Hey! I'm looking through all of my riding stuff and I found my crochet gloves that I thought I lost! 8D Yay!

[classi]

Okay maybe not two hours every night. But I did have two hours of homework on Thursday. And an hour on Friday. xD
My barn is only about eight minutes away.
Nah, Hano, it wasn't pointless. Now I get to see how your life is. xD

On riding days, or when my half lease with Riley begins, it will be...
Get out of school at 4:00. Faint on the floor after running in athletics in 100 degree heat. Do homework for 30 minutes to 2+ hours. Play on computer or do something slightly fun, eat dinner, until 6:00. Go to barn and come home at about 8:00 - 8:45ish. Get ready for bed, study for tests/blah and then go to bed.
I wish school got out earlier... next year I'll get out at about 3:00, though. So yay!

[gam]

Next weeeekkk...Next week I'm uploading a video of me and Patsy. I haven't seen a video of myself riding in almost a year, I'm kind of scared. LOL. Well, I'm 5'4", almost 5'5". I wonder if people of that height look stupid on 14.1 ponies, lol. <3 Ah well. I do know my leg goes a bit past her belly,so that's kind of ehh, but I still love riding her and she doesn't feel small at all. But really, I want/need your guys' opnion on my riding, especially rain and dolphin and Hano ~ <3


@ Hano, I read all of that LOl what can I say, I have a lot of times on my hands. Ohh crochet gloves?! Do want! I only have on glove. Yes, that's singular--one glove. lol. I probably need to get new ones before winter.
I come home at 3:00, do nothing for like 3 hours, eat dinner, shower, sleep. Exciting, eh?

@ money: I have a crapload of money in my bank account, but it's no touchy because it's college money. -_- Well, I had 400 dollars in cash saved in my bedroom for a while, then my dad took it to the bank, so basically he stole it from me, and it's dissipated into my college money. >.< And I'm sure there's hundreds of dollars of saved birthday/christmas/etc money in there too. Ugh, so annoying jhgfds. So right now, I only have like $60 in cash right now.

@ rain: Oh my god, gfdsasdfghj. You look so great on him. <3 And jesus christ, you are so skinny, omg. o.o But literally, you look like so perfect on him. <3

@ leasing, half leasing, buying: I would totally give up my social life, as if I had one. lol. but I would, I seriously wish I could ride every single day. And stay at the barn all day. Every day. Forever. ujhgfd. Thankfully, I almost never have homework. SOMEHOW. I have no idea how I do it, but I usually do it on the bus and get it done. So I could go to the barn everyday, but I know no one would want to drive me there everyday. >.>

But what I really want to do is half-lease. I really want to half lease, because I know I could make it work, but I'm just worried about my parents agreeing with me about it, they're kind of frugal, even though my dad's the associate dean of a pretentious business school and we HAVE the money there.

Ugh.
Patsyyyyyy.

I want to spoil her to death. lol. I want to get her a bonnet, she'd look so...what's the word. Sporty? lol