Thinking Aloud is good for people.
Women
have a particularly good grasp on this, we do it to each other all the
time. Call one another up, bounce idea off of our girl friends,
announce new purchases, gossip, vent about husbands or whatever is on
our minds at that point in time.
My blog is all about thinking out load - gives me a chance to
mentally put things in order. Perhaps someone will spot some process
some little thing from my thinking that will help their horse life some
how...I can only hope.
More Stuff I Need to Buy:
As it turns out finding myself with one and now possible two
serious Hunt Seat prospects has increased the amount of money I am
putting out for the horses. You see I haven't shown English in years -
years. So I have all ready had my Navy Blue English jacket taken in, as
its seems that I have lost weight since I last showed Hunt Seat. Either
that or I always had a big jacket, since it was a gift to me (and I was
a poor high school student) and my family was never up on getting
clothes to fit properly that is entirely possible. But its a nice wool
jacket and I have taken care of it. Since its Navy it has never gone
out of style, its not the trendiest thing in the show pen but its
out-of-style either. Works for me. My Hunt Seat education as a youth
was very traditional and as a result I prefer to err on side of
conservative with my Hunt Seat dress anyway.
I did get myself
two new dickies (those cool things that fit under your jacket that make
it appear as if you have an English shirt and collar on when in reality
it goes only to mid chest level) one is kacky striped with Navy piping
& has my initials embroidered on it the other has a light blue
pattern with Navy piping on it. WAY bolder than I would usually ever go
in the Hunt Seat show pen, but they were really inexpensive and I
wasn't the only exhibitor out with them so I am "living a little".
So that leaves my Breeches
which, apparently, are too light. The search is on for darker yet
affordable pair. I already know I can't live without knee patches so I
know I need those and would prefer to stick to the color tan. I admit I
was little annoyed with Todd for pointing that out to me, but the next
time I was waiting outside the show pen he politely asked me to look
around at everyone's clothes and see if I noticed anything. It was
immediately apparent that my breeches were several shade lighter than
everyone else's. So what? You may ask. Well although its not quite as
bad, its similar to showing up in a pair of rust
breeches. You know and everyone else knows it was a trend that is now
out-of-style. Not really the way I would like to draw attention, you
see, so the search is on and until them my lighter breeches will have
to just work.
I also need:
Boot Pulls
because I know have calves - in fact I am half tempted to take my boot
into the local saddle show and have them put a zipper in one so that I
could get my boots on and off more easily. I wonder if that's
possible?.....
To find my Black Gloves: this should not require a purchase I know I have them somewhere....nice leather ones that I paid good money for...
Over Reach Boots for Stretch:
Because Stretch has such a deep reach from behind when I am lunging him
he is constantly smacking his front feet with his back. This will
happen without a doubt after his white feet have been clipped and
washed and whitened so that the blood will splatter all over and stain
his feet and for the rest of the show he will look as is he walked out
of a slaughter house. Perfect. I already use PC boots on him but he
still gets the base of his hoof in the back so I just need to break
down and do it.
A Rolling Cooler: able to carry a days worth of drink supplies to the barn with ease.
An iLive iPod Boombox:
I live my life with music - can't sing a lick, but I love listening to
music it actually helps me focus, stay on task, and reduces stress.
Having something going in the tack stall at the shows is so nice, I
just need something that is tough enough to handle being in a barn and
is battery powered. The above model seems to fit the bill.
Skylight for Trailer Living Quarter: Still
making due with my duct tape repair job, I am thinking before heading
to my next show in Monroe this will HAVE to be fixed, the rain over
there amazing me and if I want to be dry at all - I think I will have
to belly up the credit card and fix this one.
Trailer Update:
I can't recall if I mentioned this in other posts - to top off my list
of *** to do I had to go and purchase a new trailer jack last week, as
during my first show of 2008 I discovered that the original jack was
broke - for good, and stuck the heck on my truck. So on the bright
side, I got a really good deal on one through work and had hubby cut
the old one off and called in a favor to get the new one welded on for
free. $125.00 later I have a new and much improved jack. Not motorized
(not in my wildest dreams could I afford one of those) but I can now
get it up and down with one arm with ease. My trainer, Joe Smith, said
that I would be amazed at how long my original jack wasn't working
right when I got the new one on and felt the difference - boy was he
right!!! What used to be a work-out and a half is now a piece of cake
to unhook the trailer!
Here is the selfish part: Even with all this stuff to do and money that needs to go toward my horse stuff, I just purchased a pair of Lucchese Boots
from the Clothes Horse Connection store. Not riding boots mind you -
boots to go "out" in. I got a really good deal on them or I wouldn't
have done it, but I have been wanting a pair of boots that I could wear
"out" for so long and I just love this pair they were exactly my size -
AND they came down in price $85 - the past owner did not wear them so
they are brand new. $100 for a brand new pair of Lucchese boots is
unheard of!! So they are mine now - I will be picking them up from the
gal who runs the store, Maggie, in Monroe at the end of the month.
Aren't they cute?! I fully plan on pairing these up with western jeans
and main stream designer jeans (yet to be purchased) when I go out.
I can get some major dancing accomplished with these babies!
Visit Maggie's store online here for used show apparel and tack: http://www.clotheshorseconnection.com/