Since Southern Pines, I have gone to Aiken to judge at the Carolina Show Jumping Rally for a rainy weekend, flown to Philadelphia for an H-B , which included a 7 hour stay in the Greensboro airport :) Don't we love flying? And then an overnighter to compete at Tamarack Hill's Horse Trial.
The event went well with Lina being a very good girl. No surprise there! Dressage was respectable. I tried a different bit in SJ, which did not set well with the Princess. It was, how shall we say.... stinky? But we escaped with only one rail. Cross Country was a vast improvement with our best round ever. We finished 5th! It was a really fun couple of days.
Sue Evans and Levi competed Maiden. It was Sue's first event and she is a convert! She said about 20 times, "That was FUN!". Levi was so cute and perky. However, he had to voice his opinion about being left in the barn. Sue came to watch my XC and when I met her back at the barn, she looked shell shocked, because Levi was missing and his stall door was still locked. Knowing my pony, I walked around to the closest grass, and he was there grazing. After inspecting the pony and the stall door we discovered that he had jumped over a 5 foot door, minus a little skin. We will have to tell him about a fellow named Theodore O'Connor.
I think it is very hard for me to travel and compete, so I will plan for the next event to fall at a better time. I hope to get to one more event towards the end of May. I have no desire to get into the hot weather! Today was a beautiful day, a bit chilly but sunny and NOT raining.
Next week, I hit Disneyland! I haven't been since 1977! My sister and nieces and I are being treated by our good friend Linda Daniels. Quite a treat, eh?
Before I go, we are going to a schooling hunter show at Irish Oaks with some kids on saturday.
Next update after MICKEY :)
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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