Yesterday the wife asked me why I was doing a Blog. Well for me I had a few reasons and they are:
- For my grandchildren. At some point in there life they maybe interested in reading what I have written. Writing about the horse part of our lives opens the door a little to show a side of myself that they may never really see during the day to day bustle of chores, haying, fixing stuff, day job and grandpa being tired at the end of the day.
- Back around 1990 I started hauling the oldest to clinics, horse lessons, practices 4H, pony club, O-Mok-See, Rodeo. That went on until the youngest hit highschool. During those years we occationally had money and opportunity for me to ride in some of those clinics and take riding lessons myself. To date I have never set down what I have learned that works for me. I am amazed that in the heat of the moment how much I forget and that afterwards it is like 'Oh I remember now' and next time I run into the issues I have two or three ways to overcome the current issue at hand.
- As a training tool for myself. I have pictures of me goofing up and when I look at them I see it but I hope to internalize what I need to do by documenting the points I need to change.
Mojo 2009
3 comments:
Thank you for the comment on my blog. I enjoyed your posts also. You are right about the hibernation part, and now that I am aware of it, because I had not thought about the "fear" growing worse, I can take steps to counter act that.
So your grama use to live in Umatilla. Yes they moved the whole town, and I think we are living on part of the old riverbed! LOL Our property is nothing but rocks!
We have only lived out in the country for 4 years. We lived in the town of Umatilla for 22 years before that, and raised three boys.
Now that they are out of the home, hubby and I buy a couple of acres, and no kids at home to do chores! HAHA...keeps us young! and Loving every moment of it. Well.....except when I am going in circles with my horse.
What part of Montana are you from? My grandparents raised wheat in Scobey, where my mom was born. THen when they retired they moved to Ronan. They are both gone now.
Mrscravitz,
Boy your gutsy to follow. :)
I'm not real good yet at being consistant but I hope to work on it.
We live in the Helena area.
The girls rode in a highshool rodeo in Ronan. It was held at the baseball field. Every evening we were supposed to go out in the outfield and clean up the horse presents from that days activities.
It was a fun time.
Good luck to you We are suppose to be enjoying this time of life. Hope you're having fun.
and my skip WHERE were YOU earlier ? :) Was supposed to ride with patrick but he was a late show so i ended out by riding gazi (my arabian i use for endurance) solo... Just talked to him, talked to G-d, sang and used all the "little tools" i've been acquiring...
The good thing about going solo is you can really focus on your horse and you and what he's saying... (not to mention good for my "feel the fear and do it anyway" !) i think i have a new "world and olympic record" for getting his brain back.... Would love to ride with you sometime just to get your "eye" on it... you sound like you have a boatload of experience to share
sit down and ride
gp
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