Mary and (the perfect) Beast
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Catch up.....
So today seems like a good day to catch up.
Our new rescue dog Petunia Rose thinks it's a good day to catch up on sleep. And cuddles.
Ava and Summer went to Fair Hill yesterday.
Ava was wonderful minus a few screams to summer during her dressage test. She scored a thirty and tried her hardest to show jump clean despite the mud and my great plans to kick for a long one on more then one ocassion. Cross country had it's fair share of technical elements and she just ate it all up.
Summer and Ava both had to deal with the grass warm up, in the rain, on a hill. Ava has stud holes, Summer does not.....but is getting them next week. Horses were slipping and acting a bit silly. Sumner was good in warm up but our ride time was delayed and she totally lost her focus.
I just kept kicking on.
The judge was very pleased with my riding and I must attribute that to Vanessa Swartz and Sharon White. Everything I was complimented on is what I have been working on with those ladies.
Summer was second to jump and we decided to wait for another day. The footing was getting worse by the minute. Shes too nice to risk an injury on a novice.
Beast has had treatment for anaplasma for two weeks now.
She also had a bone scan which revealed some issues that we are going to start working on tomorrow.
I am taking the mares to Sharon Whites to jump with Jimmy and have Jeff Beshear (the vet) do whatever it is we are doing.
Callie has been sold.
I am excited for her new owners, but sad at the same time.
Time to do some cleaning before teaching this afternoon!
I might sneak in a power nap/cuddle with Petunia.
Mary Mack
Friday, May 3, 2013
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
I'm not sure what happened in here....
Maggie let me sleep in until 730.....But this is what she was doing.
Mary Mack
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Catching up....
Mags and I are trying to catch up on stuff.
We have had a bit of a rough weekend.
Beast was quite good at her first advanced.
I have worked very hard at becoming calm and focused while competing. The good news, I have achieved the goal.
The bad news, it is such a change for Beast xc, I will have to continue to be a bit over driven xc.
Oh and I can't get calm and lazy confused!
Maggie had a wonderful weekend with her cousins. They came to watch with my sister and brother in law on friday and saturday.
We came home saturday.
Our little jack russel has not been doing well. She went into kidney failure two weeks before Fair Hill. I think she hung around to get me through the weekend but on Sunday night, we had to let her go.
Losing a pet is so hard because it's like letting go of a part of your life. I'm going to hang on to Scruffy's little Jack russel tenacity and bring it to every cross country that Beast and I do together.
Ava shined yesterday doing flat work. Summer gave me some fancy trot work and I'm convincing her to give me her back at the canter.
Vanessa will get us all tuned up on Thursday. I want both girls in the 20s at Loudon.
Beasty was quite wild yesterday.(Back to herself!) She got a late entry into Loudon to get established before Jersey Fresh!
This afternoon brings lots of riding and lessons!
Mary Mack
