Oh yeah, I have a blog.

I hate change. 

That being said... a lot has been changing.  My horse is changing (mostly for the better), my job is changing (hopefully for the better), and due to all of that my drinking habits have been changing (most likely not for the better) haha. I kid!

Rori has been like a roller coaster for a little while.  After my fall at Virginia Horse Trials back in May her confidence fell and with that her performance cross country plummeted.  At Plantation Horse Trials in the beginning of June we went out at training and were standing in first after dressage and stadium.  It was extremely hot and the cross country course was difficult, but not too difficult, or so I had thought.  We ended with 2 refusals on cross country and I was completely baffled since that is usually our strongest phase.  After talking about what had happened with Sinead and Laura we all decided it would be best to move Rori back to novice until her confidence goes back up.

Since then I took her out at Bucks County at the end of June and she went fantastic and finished 2nd in Open Novice beating out some really good riders.  She started her cross country phase a bit nervous but definitely willing and finished up like a rockstar.  I have her signed up for Olney Horse Trials in Maryland next weekend at Novice and if all goes well there I will be bringing her back to Training in August.  I can only hope that we can get back on track from here and continue to move up as I had hoped before.

Moving onto barns!  I'm moving.

Not far. Actually only 2 miles down the road from where I am now.  Karen and I are moving our cliental from Pine Ridge Equestrian Center to a really nice and quiet place called Signature Equestrian Center.  We've been in works of moving for about a month now and yesterday we finally got the OK to move in there in August.  I'm somewhat nervous and somewhat excited.  We have room if anyone is interested in coming in with us! Haha.

All the stress from Rori being up and down, and the barn / horse/ lessons / clients moving has been EXTREMELY stressful and I'm really ready to finally have a peace of mind about all of this.  I could really use a mental break and my liver sure could too.  August can't come soon enough :)

Hopefully I'll remember to update this a little earlier next time

-S