"an easy day"

getting steph ready for her cross country

  Today, saturday, was our easy day. We got a bunch of stuff done yesterday so we could go to the horse show that everyone and i mean EVERYONE was competing in. We took our first two sets out after all our. barn chores this morning and then headed over to Rocking Horse, which is a good hour fifteen or so. We wanted to get there to see a huge list of folks. Mostly Missy do her cross country on mr fantastic.

but we also got to see buck and bruce davidson, karen oconor, one of her students; hannah, as well as missy and her student steph (see above photo).

mr fantastic looking fantastic

the sea of trailers. more than i have ever seen in one place

a jump

then, after hanging around, trecking across the GIGANTIC cross country course, and, gasp, helping Missy and her student/worker steph who also had two horses running, we left around 4pm. got back to the barn, fed, got the last two of our horses ready to roll in a hurry, and trotted over to longwood to do the craziest thing i think have done to date. we took a cross country lesson in the dark. like not fading light dark, but sun down, no moon, no shadows, cant really even see a horse cantering towards you kindda dark.

It was NUTS! and really fun. Jen and I rode hubert and hunter respectively and all we could do was get a good canter be straight, and they had to do the rest, because we really couldn't see. So much trust involved on both ends. I didnt know until after the lesson, but apparently Missy's first, or one of the first lessons she ever had with David O'Conor was in the dark, like the kind of dark we experienced tonight. Pretty cool. 

Anyway. We got home around 8 and here we are. i need to go to sleep. (up at 2:15 for hunting tomorrow) so until next time!

this is missy and mr fantastic during their cross country course. they were in 1st until they went too slow cross country, and fell to third. we think.