Um, Yeah. Been a While.

[dancinghorse]

That moment when you realize you haven't had a proper, butt-busting (you AND the horse) dressage lesson since April, and you've been cruising along (bendy bendy bendy collect lengthen collect lengthen) and you're working on your this and your that and it's all good even if your brain hurts, and lesson ends and you go to dismount and Ow.

Riding greenbeans has many rewards, but there's nothing quite like a butt-buster with the more trained horse. Who was off work himself for a while with basically testosterone poisoning, so we'll both be taking it slow tomorrow.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Oh, ouch. I hope you stop feeling achey very soon.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I rode again this evening, and wasn't sore at all. But I'm very tired. They say riding this way is like taking a maths exam. I certainly feel it in my little grey cells.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I can well believe that it's intellectually challenging. It's ahnugely complicated thing, for both horse and rider.

Q re horsy thing? from a non horse person

[trish brown (from livejournal.com)]

Judith, I do hate to impose, but I just sent a FB friend request. I was looking at last year's post re: Lipizzaner "event" and had a few questions about a repeat for this year, etc. I am sorry to bother you but am wondering if something like that would be a good fit for a horse focused relative about to graduate college. I can be found at trishb at gmail dot com with far more detail. Also totally understood if this gets tossed in the bin. Regards.

Re: Q re horsy thing? from a non horse person

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Email sent. Let me know what I can do. :)