So I can't believe it has been a month since I last wrote a post. Actually, I can. But I promise to do better. I have a few blog posts written and scheduled for this week, so please don't give up on us! When I last posted, I was in the process of writing about my journey to find a barn home while I was away from my real barn for work... my adventures sat in the 'drafts' section for a while, but all three are now written and will be posted throughout this week! Please note, I am being intentionally vague in this post as I believe it is my personal experience and I'm not here to shame anyone but humorously tell my tale of wtf.
The area I was working this summer is very horse heavy, but more Western than English. So finding an English barn was difficult, and finding a hunter/jumper barn was almost impossible. After what I thought was a pretty exhaustive internet and facebook search, I had put out feelers to multiple barns that either had english lessons or english horses available for lease. The first to reply was a small barn in the vicinity of where I was working. The owner didn't really "do" lessons, but there was a horse I could lease. The barn owner offered to let me come try the horse while I was on a work trip and that they would also stick around and offer pointers and give an example of a lesson with them (even though they didn't really do lessons anymore, so they said). The barn's website was beautiful, professional, and full of accolades. It was, in a word, slick. Beautiful facilities, beautiful horses, beautiful anything and everything. I was stoked. What I found however was not was the internet offered (cue: blog title). Here's a short list of things that occurred during my time at this barn (1 hour) that I am still confused about to this day.
Yes, I paid $85 for a lesson on a horse that hadn't been ridden in a month, to be completely flummoxed and question my ability as not only a rider but a human capable of understanding direction. I paid $85 to be confused, over a month later, about what I experience. I... just.... sigh. I did not return to that mounting block. Next post: I find a fancy hunter trainer... and everything was great until it wasn't. -M
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