January 27, 2013

It's Been to Nice Outside to Stay In...

So one of the best parts of living out here is that the weather is *usually* pretty amazing most of the time. This has been the case recently-sunny, sometimes a little clouds, temperatures in the mid 70s, it's awesome! So with that comes being out a little more, lots of time at the yard, and very little inside. The bummer part of that is we've been playing with my new camera a lot so have some pretty fun shots but I have yet to edit those bad boys. I still need to finish editing Italy-that was how long ago?? Oh my.
One great thing that is going on is I've started a little "trial" time period with my new instructor to determine if I should keep trying to jump (sometimes very, very badly) or if I should throw in the towel and just focus on dressage 100%.  The thing is I usually like jumping, after I'm done with it! The few days, and yes hours even, leading up to it I tend to become slightly queasy, nauseous even.  I do sweat a little more than usual and have even been known to have a slight panic attack. BUT, after it's all said and done, and if I've survived pretty well intact, I think about how fun it is and how the challenge of it had made it more enjoyable.  And to go along with this journey, I am sharing my tale with a horse rider's blog that I follow called "Horse Junkies United." It's a pretty cool site actually; a huge amount of diverse riders and stories are shared on it.  So I emailed them and said I'm starting this trial and do they want me to share it and they have begun putting up my posts-crazy yea?  So here is the first one-I've called it "Tales of a Jump Weenie." Sadly someone put a somewhat hurtful comment up on the first day but another reader was very encouraging and is ready to see how I progress so yay! I suppose that's what I get for putting it out there on the Internet for other people to see. I really need to work on developing some tougher skin! Here is the link to my first post!

"Tales of a Jump Weenie-Part 1"

I also shared a bit about Harley and how stressed he can get-here's that link:
 "What Stresses My Horse Out?"

Other than that not much is going on. Ceramics has been good-I've been "teaching" a class the last few weeks and Tuesday is our last day.  It's been fun and the ladies are really nice. Plus it's given me an extra day in to pour and work on stuff. Poor Matt isn't too happy that I am now making even MORE stuff; he swears we're going to run out of room to store it all.  The biggest thing is I've started to pour things for kid rooms. NO! We're not preggo but we will have one, one day in the far distant future, and I would like to have made some decor for the little rascal(s???).  Right now it's bugs (like caterpillars and snails) and aeroplanes (which Matt can not complain about right??).  Now please don't harass me about when babies are going to happen-when we are, we'll wait a few months, then let you know that we're expecting. So in reality, you've got some time before that happens. Just relax and please don't hold your breath!

So that's all I've got for you at the moment. Here are some unedited photos of Joey that I took yesterday-we went to the salt lake/beach/dunes to let him run around and so I could play with the camera some more. I'm getting better at the settings. Matt also showed me some tricks with the new(ish) tripod and wireless shutter release-it's oh so fun!!




And here is Joey balancing some Christmas goodies! Look!! 4!! He's so talented!!! It took a few tries and LOTS of concentration (on his part!) but we finally got them balanced!