LOOSE HORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi all!


As you all can see from my title, their was a little mishap at the farm today!! I had just gone into the utility room to clean my tack when maybe 2 minutes later, I hear the horses gettting adjatated. It was about 7:15 so I thought to myself, maybe Mike was there to close or do something else and the horses thought it was feeding time.....So I come out of the utility room walk towards the front of the barn when to my suprise......Reiner comes walking around the corner from the arena! LOOSE! He wasn't breathing hard and I figured that he had just gotten out and when he heard my voice he wanted to investigate. So I had no time to get a halter, and plus sometimes he can be a little tricky about being caught, but I knew I had to do something quick before he either went up and talked to PJ or ran back into the arena.....Thank GOD he is young and distracted easily....he was talking to Derris which was fine, but I distracted him with a fist, (he thought it was a treat) and lead him into his stall! I checked for injuries or heat....nothing.....WHEW! That little escape artist!!!!!




but he is soo cute!!!

Anyway it was about 8 degrees here today so couldn't ride all that hard.....I just rode Rowdy bareback, which he enjoyed because he has been working especially hard and well lately! Then I got on Salina and had a good ride too! With her I am working on overall a bit more contact and throughness in transitions.....Also now that she is really forward, I am working on half halting her back. which seems to be going well....She is such a fun horse and is progressing really well! I am so lucky I have a friend that lets me ride her!!!!!!!

On Tuesday Rowdy was spectacular.....suprising me with fantastic pirouettes that were really adjustable, ones, and piaffe that was getting very good! Also half pass was lovely!!! OH it was a great ride! I love the feeling he has been giving me in the extensions lately.....very uphill, not rushing, and VERY big! Brad always says if my helmet didn't have a strap then it would go FLYING! Lol!

Trying to figure out show season at the moment but have to wait to talk to my parents.....I might have it worked out but nothing is set in stone at this point!

Classes are going well and I have been getting to bed later and later.....bad bad bad! I am trying to go to bed earlier though!!

Otherwise I am going to try to ride tommorow, but it is entirely possible that Brad won't let me or I will do something like I did today....Way to cold!

Until next time!
Meredith and Rowdy

HECTICITY!

hola!
So Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays are a bit hectic for me now. My schedule for these are: Wake up EARLY!, go ride rowdy, come back and FIND a parking spot for my 1:15 class, class from 1:15-3:55, then homework, eat, sleep etc...
So anyway I got up and went to the barn, came back to campus at 12:30 and tried to find a parking spot......so I am fairly sure every student and their mother was parked here today OMG! it took me 45 minutes to find a spot and still I wasn't even sure it was.......and then I was also late for my class.....oh well, i guess it's fine...now

Now on to riding:
Rowdy was a star again today for like the millionth day in a row! I am so proud of him! Pirouettes.....majorly awesome! Best they have ever been so far! One tempis are coming nicely but for me are a bit challenging, but at least Rowdy has them! One day they will just happen.......Brad says :) I have a lesson tommorow so hopefully they will be better!

At the current moment I am watching NCIS....which is probably my favorite show EVER! It's fabulous! Later tonight though, I need to take a roll of film for my photography class...fun right??

meredith & rowdy

First Blog

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to my blog! This blog will describe my life while attending college and riding dressage. At this moment I am a freshman at a small college in the North U.S.A. My love and favorite pass time, dressage, is spent with my brilliant yet sometimes too enthusiastic horse Rambunctious, affectionately known around the barn as Rowdy. While in high school we used to train in the Midwest with a woman named Debbie, my clinician (and now trainer) Brad used to come to the barn every eight weeks. When I graduated my horse and I made the trek up north to go work with him full time! This is my horse! He is a 9 year old, Dutch Warmblood that I have had for 3 years now. We are currently schooling all of the Grand Prix with him and hope to debut in that in 2010...but who knows??? In the 2008 show season we competed at the Young Riders Championships! It was a very fun time! Anyway I went to ride today, it was an easy day which was fun for both Rowdy and I as he hasn't had one for the past month because I was on break and I returned home, therefore I handed over the reins to Brad. I got back a week ago and have been loving riding Rowdy! He is just a little star! I should probably get to bed now! I have to get up to ride early in the morning! Until next time! Meredith and Rowdy <3!