Hysteria is sweeping the Dressage Nation! Tongues are flying everywhere, blood gushing out! Nosebands are so tight they are causing horse’s muzzles to literally fall off their faces and lifeless blue tongues are lolling as a result of relentless bit violence! Seriously. This all reminds me of the Monty Python sketch that simultaneously makes fun […]

This past weekend I rode my first Grand Prix with Vitall. We did the Under 25 Young Rider GP. I was so excited after my test I almost cried. Vitall gave me such a great feeling from warm-up to the final salute. We really felt like a team in there. I was a bit nervous […]

I’m back! It’s a well-known fact of holidays that the hardest part is the return. And the more ‘away’ in nature the holiday, the harder the transition. Even though I’ve been to places much more far flung and exotic than the western US, I’m officially putting camping road trips at the top of my list […]

I have been a bit remiss on the blog lately as several of you have made a point of mentioning 😉 Well, to be honest, cross country day at Badminton was such a NA fiasco that the STRUGGLE to get online at Badminton didn’t even enter our minds. All you can say at the end […]

I had a great 10 days with my mom. It was nice to show her around Uden and she put a mommy’s touch on my house. My carnet (travel documents) is all in order now, so we are good for one more year! Sadly, I have no pictures as my camera decided it didn’t want […]

Greetings from the Mormon homeland.  I haven’t been this far off the grid since before I owned my first cell phone. I rarely get a signal here and there are precious few places to get internet. But don’t confuse Mormons with Mennonites. It’s the result of being in such unpopulated and mountainous areas, not because […]

This past weekend I went to the Coast of Holland. It felt like I was somewhere else when we arrived. The first thing I saw was a sea of kite surfers and wind surfers. It was very, very windy! My hair was everywhere, but Oslo loved it. He was running around like a mad man. […]

The past little bit I have been up to a lot of fun things as well as training. Last weekend I went to a Chic/Shine event, which is for ladies. It had everything from interior design and health/wellness to fashion. It was all boutique fashion from special designers. It was in this old cottage/ country […]

Last night I once again dressed my horse in his purple Rambo. A Rambo in late May??? Sure it was the light rain sheet model, but seriously. I’ve had it with this weather. Watching the flowering plants in my garden has been a study in botanical arrested development. This has been one S.A.D. spring. So […]

Did you catch the Derby last week? It was a great race, won by a horse with an even better story. But what really struck me this year was that, between the Royal nuptials and the Kentucky Derby, I have never seen so many stupid looking hats in the span of eight days. Many of them […]