lesson, clinic, and lesson :)

on Wednesday i had my lesson (not on Mondays like it usually is because of the rain) and stitchy was great! then i traveled him to ride at a clinic at Summerwood (this gorgeous facility in grass valley!) and that was awesome. It was how to deal with your riding under pressure.... one of the exercises we did was "the box" haha :) there were eight jumps in the shape of a box (duh) 2 on each side. then we would go out (each in turns) and trot around the box for like 5 seconds when he would call out the 4 or 6 or 8 (it got progressively harder every time) and we would have to jump them... like this. block, double block, green, diamonds, natural, white, barrel, bucket. AND we would have to remember the order.... AND we would have to take the shortest distance from the last jump to the next jump!!!! it was cool and i hope my explanation was ok at least (it is hard without a picture!) and yay i have a lesson tonight!!! exciting :)

the rain...

today was like a short thunderstorm.... short but definatley sweet. the thunder rattled our windows!! right before i took some pics of our lovely friends; brodie and stitch :) i used two camera's heres the little one (i took some cool shots on the big one too i just have to find the cord :O.

my first blog :) oct. 18, 2009

yay! finally this one works (i had another blog that was really hard to use (:) any way this morning i lunged stitch in the round pen at a neighbors house. i had hoped to get some energy out but he seemed pretty tired (he hasn't been ridden all week due to rain and whatnot!) hopefully i will ride him more tonight in prep for our lesson tomorrow and our upcomming show, Starr Vaughn :O! it will be exciting but its a pretty big show especially for me and Alex, we are going with our trainer Brittany... I was supposed to send in the entries last week, i still need to! she might be a little mad... oh well i will try to get them in as soon as possible. I'm already excited for our lesson tommorow we are working on being on the bit (with their nose tucked in rather than his head way up in the air) i will have my dad take some updated pics on monday at our lesson so you all can see. but here are some pics anyway that are kinda old (over the summer) this flickr adress has a really recent video:http://www.flickr.com/photos/38793127@N06/4002551659/ and other stuff from a show (i didn't ride in) and stitch portratis and jumping!