If You Are Bored...

...and want a laugh. Here are our videos from the Spokane Sport Horse Trials. You can tell that we are clearly still pretty new at all of this, but we are making progress. I am still so exhausted from that weekend. I don't know if it was a combo of the cold wet weather, emotional flooding, and riding the 5 times in four days, but I just haven't recovered like I did from my first horse trial. I don't think the cold rainy weather that we have been experiencing since then has helped either. My joints are PISSED.

I can't quite escape the discomfort that my body is throwing at me currently. My legs (muscles, joints, everything) have just been radiating pain. From my hips down into my feet. Sometimes I try to take some hydrocodone to see if it will help, and doesn't even do the trick. Add that to feeling weak and some angry lungs, and you get me on a couch all day. I hate it.

Anyways, I was a little hesitant to put these on here, but why not? We are certainly not pros (but we DIDN'T come home with a bloody mouth) and it will be fun to compare to our future horse trials. I am already pouting on having to wait until May or June to do our next one. But I am determined to get there. God willing. Camelot may even be on our agenda if we are lucky!

To help raise some funds to get to some of these shows, I did a photo shoot of a great gal and her handsome jumper. I think we got a few nice photos, though they are still currently being edited, but I hope she will be happy with them. Photos are a little easier for me to do, but I still might offer paintings too. I have been working on the same one for MONTHS because there is just so much detail to put in it, and tremory hands do not help. So I think my next ones will be expressionistic, and I may have to paint Bacon as a sample to see how it turns out. We shall see.

I will add a note that you should always make friends with your husband's friend (not ho-like, just make them cookies and stuff) because sometimes they buy you things. Like knock-off Dubarrys, Kitchen Aid Mixers, and the most recent gift, a black with grey binding Ogilvy dressage baby pad. Thanks Kansas husband friend! When I feel a little better, I am testing that new prize out right away.