Seeing as how Rocky’s feet are finally getting less sore, I decided to resume my Freestyle journey with our third Level 1 Follow the Rail session. I tucked the patterns book into my pocket and then forgot to consult it the entire time. It was going well in that I was settling into my seat [...]
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In which Rocky totally makes my day.
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In which I attempt the catching game, officially.
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In which I apply what I studied within 15 hours of studying it, with stunning results.
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In which I ramble about lack of fitness – of more than one kind.
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It’s not that I’m glad Rocky has arthritis in his coffin joint, especially at only 9 years old. It’s that I understand arthritis, I’ve been dealing with it for years in Jedi, and I feel confident in my ability to monitor and manage it for Rocky too. Navicular, ringbone (my biggest worry, given that ringbone [...]
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I can’t afford to keep Rocky shod, the way he loses shoes to the sucking mud in the Back 40 (which has taken off my rainboot more than once; it’s a menace). So we accelerated the plan to move him to the front and put him in the smaller front pen by himself, where he’ll [...]
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This past fortnight I find that I have finally accepted, with a combination of wonder and chagrin (“well, DUH”), that I am solidly Level 2. Not just safe, but confident. I am working to shed the habit of seeing all other horse people as experts and me as a wannabe, and have had some success [...]
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Dick Francis Novels
I re-read the entire collection of Dick Francis novels at least once a year.
