Saturday, February 13, 2010

I've Been Skiing

That's my excuse for not blogging, anyways. The season has been great. 48 skis so far this season. That is by far my best year. A few seasons ago I got in 38, but it is not even mid-February and I've exceeded that by 10. Plus we've got about 10 inches of great snow on the ground. So I should have no problem getting over 60 skis this year. That will be a fun milestone.

The rest of my time has been spent horse shopping. After nearly two years of riding Steen with Robin we started to talk about getting another horse. We rode this nice Paint first, but he was big and sluggish and expensive and he might have been lame. Then we rode this very goofy looking and slightly untrained Saddlebred-Paint-Arabian. He was too much horse for me. Finally we went to the Meyer Horse Co. They had a lot of nicely trained ranch geldings. I rode a couple and really liked this big, bay named Shamrock. I decided to call him Sham, for short. He arrived on Thursday, and he's got his own blog now.

It will not be a highly exciting blog. Especially if you're not a horse person and don't feel like reading about someone fumble through their rides and training. But I imagine it will be highly useful for me to keep track of my progress. Unfortunately, it probably won't help me update this blog more regularly. I'll try to work on that, though.