Oh hey

I'm having a bit of a conundrum over blogging lately.

Part of me wants to share every single thing Opie and I are getting up to because Oh Em Gee this kid is such a smarty pants. But I don't want to become that person who expounds on how amazing their horse is, and everyone ends up being like, "Shut the fuck up, bitch. Some of us are over here struggling with real problems."

Spoiler alert though: It's not all roses. Is it ever? Today I clunked my horse's head into a steel support beam in the arena because he was about to somersault picking a fight about the right lead. We are beauty, we are grace. I will hit you in the face. (Not intentionally though, just, you know, please focus on your body parts for fuck's sake, Opie.)

there is no one better at throwing side eye than this kid.

And then there are the wonderful people on facebook who have Opinions on everything. Y'all. EV-UR-E-THINGGGG. From old college friends to one particular person from my barn in PA that feels the needs to comment on every single picture, I can't get away with a mention of Opie or Bobby or any other horse that has ever existed without them being like, "WORDS. WORDS WORDS WORDY WORDS."

"I miss doing real dressage rides."
"DON'T WORRY HE WILL GET THERE HE IS STILL YOUNG IT TAKES TIME ONE DAY HE WILL BE AWESOME AT THINGS TOO JUST WAIT IT WILL BE SO FUN HE IS SO CUTE BUY THIS THING AND THAT THING AND CHANGE THIS THING LET ME TELL YOU A STORY."

Right. I know.

learning

I've actually only ever owned fresh off the track horses, and I've turned every single one of them into the horse I wanted. I've been down this road several times before. Sometimes I just want to share cute pictures or celebrate small wins, and facebook is the quickest place to be like, "Yay, we did a thing!" Then that reaction spirals out of control before I can form a blog post about it and it kills all desire to share with you lovely people who neither annoy me nor say foolish things.

So I need to find a balance of #blessyourtimeline with pictures of The Snoot and bragging about all the fun boxes we're ticking off without crossing the line of  "I will cut you if you don't shut up." Because really, every day we're up to new and amazing things:

• Trail rides
• Free jumping
• Saddle fitting
• Bareback romping
• Just Say No to weaving
• and screaming
• and invading personal space
• and bad manners in general
• Gearing up for our first "horse show"

just say yes to cookies

I do want to document these things to look back on--that being the whole reason I blog in the first place--so expect to see some posts crawling out here shortly.

In the meantime, PA Barn Lady, if you can't refrain from being so obnoxious I'm going to have to start commenting back on all your delusional horse posts and go full on Cyber Psycho on you. Good fucking lord.