The Millbrook experience

The theme for Millbrook was two thumbs up.
Unfortunately this was because poor Pat sliced one thumb and Smashed her other one. I must say, Pat is a super trooper. She walked the cross county courses with us despite the pounding in her hand. She had to walk the whole course with her thumb up, to keep the blood from building pressure at the bottom of her hand. In hind sight, it's a little funny in a sad sort of way. I wonder if other competitors thought she was being SUPER encouraging,

 I don't really have a timeline for this blog post. If I tried to retell the whole experience, it would be like "A Tale Of  Two Cities". It would be a similar length and it would start the same........"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

Here are the random accounts from Millbrook......

The drive up was just a precious experience. Two road closures and a crime scene. Kelley got to work on her stage fright though. She sang some Lady gaga tunes to he crowd while we waited.

We arrived at Millbrook 9 hours after we left home.

Dressage day went smoothly. Mara DePuy is my hero.
My mares were awesome. I left a lot of points in the ring because of a lack of accuracy and focus. But that's a fix that just requires practice, and a plan has been laid.

Friday, the training horses went cross country. Callie was in it to win it. She had some Eminem playing in her head and she was jamming out. I have no doubt in my mind that this made would have happily run down to any advanced question on that course.
Callie said to tell the world something.....
"A bad ass I am."
I believe her. She is a very special mare.

Speaking of bad asses, Beast was a dream on cross country morning. She did not notice the atmosphere and was unconcerned by all the spectators. She boinged where ever I asked her to boing. Beast has a heart as big as her body and she just oozes sunshine. I know that sounds weird but it is so true.

Both of my mares show jumped like a dream. Callie told me to shut up and sit down and I obliged. She puffed up like a silly male bird showing off his feathers and paraded around the ring for all the spectators.
Beast was very nervous about having so many eyes on her. She still doesn't get what the big deal is. She tried her hardest to jump clean. She was a bit distracted and I was thinking a bit. It was however,the perfect prep for the two star. We worked out a lot of kinks.

My camper roommates all had some injuries to tend to.
Kelley looked like a million dollars around her advanced course. They made every hard question look like a piece of cake. 3 from home, they had just the tiniest bobble. They went through the flags fine but Bomber twisted in a way that popped his momma off.

Kelley suffered a shoulder seperation. It really slowed her down. She had to take her arm out of her sling to do tasks that she was not suppose to be doing.

Kelley is also a bad ass. But the kindest bad ass I have ever met. No one deserves success more than Kelley, and I can't wait to watch her breeze around at her next outing.


Julie had a few incidents her self. At one point I was grazing my mares laying on a canoe. I saw Julie and Kelley grazing their horses, I blinked and Julie was laying on the ground. She was cold cocked by a certain sexy Texy. (Her horse)

The drive home was eventful.
I had the privilege of driving the new bad ass truck and trailer.

The weather was great. Especially as we drove over 500000 bridges. I really enjoyed sitting in a dirty diaper the whole 8 hours.

Thank god for Julie. She blarred Tracy Chapman, and similar music that we sang to at the top of our lungs.
We also talked about all things disturbing and laughed so much, she might have had a dirty diaper as well.

I am not proof reading this blog post so I apologize for grammatical errors.
I instead am going to read a certain three year old a book and then go ride.

 I hope this blog post makes sense. If it doesn't though, that may be a more realistic account of the Millbrook experience.


The summary is, I had a great time with some amazing people and horses. There was also some moments that were funny as $h1t. Like when John Williams demonstrated how to ride down the hill of death.

Wiggle wiggle wiggle, yea.