Work and Fun as a Rider, Instructor, and Trainer at Riding Right, an Equestrian Center in Cambridge, NY
Fun Friday this week: Playing the matching game. I like giving my students who color coordinate things a hard time. I think it’s out of admiration. I can hardly figure out what I’m going to wear on any given day, but to be organized enough to not only wear a nice outfit of complimentary colored [...]
In all my years of living in this area (like half a century…) I’ve known that the Saratoga Battlefield allows horses in to enjoy the park but I’ve never done it. That all changed at the end of last week when we managed to pull together the pieces to go there and ride. The day [...]
Seems like our cross country jumps are seeing a lot of action lately. The slightly cooler weather has opened to door for frequent trips across the stream to the jump fields…. otherwise known as our hay fields. So what if our fields have to do double duty. I know that big time hay farms would [...]
It seems to me that there’s a switch of sorts that’s flicked during the 4th of July weekend. You go from summer to real SUMMER. The heat moves in, the humidity looms around the edges and it just feels different. It looks different too. The grass in the pastures change from the thick, fresh green [...]
Did you know that today is the first day of Summer? When I woke up this morning the sun was already shining, as it has been for many weeks now. The birds were singing and the air was so refreshing. What a perfect first day of summer. In my mind, the barn is about at [...]