The night before the horse show, I couldn’t sleep. I was running through all the lists in my head. Tack was loaded into cars/trailers? ✓ Athena’s breads? ✓ Grooming supplies? ✓ Athena’s tail extensions? ✓ Coggins? ✓ Pressed, clean show outfits? ✓ Polished boots? ✓ And the list goes on, and on, and on. I…
Fall 2016 brought some absolute CRAZINESS ya’ll. August-November is busy season for us photographers, so if I wasn’t at meetings with clients, shooting, editing, or the other hundreds of business tasks that owning a photography business brings, I was cramming in any moment I could at the barn to prepare for our show in October!…
Hey ya’ll! Ready for the next Amanda and Athena update?! Well, not only is it pretty exciting, but I get into what made me SO embarrassed to ride!! You can read about our previous June update HERE! Oh goodness! July brought forth so much hard (and I mean HARD) work, many happy tears and amazingness…
Whew! Boy was June warming up. Back in May I had started riding Athena! It was AMAZING!! Athena and I had more lessons since she was ride able and responding so very fast. One morning I grabbed Athena and starting tacking her up. I walked to my locker and turned around to see Athena standing…
Ya’ll. May was amazing. April brought lots of ground and round pen work, which you can read all about HERE. But May was something else! With every passing week Athena looked better and better. She gained weight, her coat became shiny. She looked SO good! Sherry taught me how to drive Athena, which a…
Can’t believe that’s the same horse. <3
TEARS!!! This post gave me goosebumps that turned into tears. Just another testament into the TRUE horsemanship of dedicating hours and hours and hours of practice, emotion, sweat, tears and we all know money to putting a well rounded horse together – even the ones who are broke to death and ready for the ring.
My heart is about to explode for the simple fact you gave this mare a second chance at the absolute best life she could possibly have. You took her from the darkest part of her life and turned her into a REALLY special and appreciated mare – and I think your show placings were her way of saying thank you.
Can’t wait to read more (and also learn how to blog from you haha)
Nic
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