Memorial Day Weekend Horse Camping at Skillman Horse Camp
Last year we were supposed to go horse camping up in the Sierra Mountains over Memorial Day weekend and it ended up raining there. So we went over to Joseph… Read more »
Category Archives: Nilla
Nilla the Anti-Dressage Mule
Two weeks ago I had a dressage lesson with Nilla where she basically went unhinged. She’s been getting progressively worse about going on the contact. Or rather, she’s always been… Read more »
Cross Country Clinic with Brian Sabo
As I mentioned in my post about schooling cross country, I’ve been wanting to do a clinic and get some professional help with cross country. The barn that hosts the… Read more »
Horse Camping at Joseph D. Grant County Park Part II
Sunday morning started with chocolate chip pancakes and tea while the ponies had their hay. Then we tacked up and headed out on a loop up to Eagle and Pig… Read more »
Horse Camping at Joseph D. Grant County Park
We have some upcoming horse camping plans and I figured a one nighter at a local park would be a good chance to see how Eugene would deal with camping… Read more »
Eugene the Trail Mustang
Last Friday we took Eugene on a short trail ride out of our barn. The plan was to see how he went and then maybe trailer out on Saturday to… Read more »
Cross-Country Schooling
We finally get to the best part of eventing: cross-country. We all know that if there was a sport that was just cross-country without the dressage and stadium, eventers would… Read more »
RDLA Combined Test – Stadium
As I said in my previous post, I was unnecessarily freaking out about stadium because the jumps were going to be so high. I’m not sure what happened to the… Read more »
RDLA Combined Test – Dressage
On Sunday we took Nilla to a schooling show at RDLA. I didn’t feel like I should do Intro again as I’ve won at that level and we should be… Read more »
Leaving Nilla Alone
Nilla has been good lately. Since the last lesson I haven’t asked her to do any real dressage work. We’ve done some trail rides and one arena ride. For the… Read more »