25th Post!!

In the very first post I gave a summary of my history with horses and how I came to own my wonderful gelding. However, now that I have been writing for almost one month(!!!) and a couple people are reading it, I want to delve deeper into the horses that God brought into my life.

The first horse I physically sat on was a pony at one of those pony rides you see at the fair. I don't remember much about it, other than I was terrified. Fear is a theme that comes up a lot in my history of horses. I loved them, but the riding a horse was really scary. When I was nine, I took some really basic riding lessons at Promise Land Ranch.

This is an Arabian gelding named Mars. He was the first horse I really loved. For some reason I wasn't afraid of him like I was of the other horses. Sadly, he died in a freak accident the day this picture was taken.

A few years later Promised Land Ranch moved across the country, and I was temporarily horseless. That didn't keep me down for long. I sought out horses everywhere I went. For instance, Silver was a pony at a zoo in Illinois. I fell in love with her and had to see her every year. 

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And then there was Merrylegs. He was the cutest, grumpiest Arab-cross pony. I absolutely loved him. At this point I was riding with one of my close friends and she introduced me to Parelli Natural Horsemanship. Poor Merrylegs was my first attempt at using the methods they teach. 

This is a mare from the herd. I got to ride her a couple times, but she was pretty old .

This is Dan, part of the same herd of Arabs as Merrylegs. I love him and we have a bond, but I haven't gotten to really work with or ride him since I moved.

 In 2012 I started taking legitimate English riding lessons at Galloping Hills and joined Pony Club.

A lesson horse named Cali

A lesson horse named Montana.

A lesson horse named Domino

I spent the summer of 2013 working at Galloping hills and in July of 2014 I went to Pony Club Nationals in Lexington KY with a team for an eventing rally. I wrote a short blog about it that you can read here. In the fall of 2014 I decided to leave Pony Club for the time being, but continued working at Galloping Hills and taking lessons. 

Another lesson horse: Desi.

And Donnie: a gorgeous warmblood I rode for lessons.

In early spring of 2015 my boss offered to sell me Gambler; you know the rest.