Things are getting back to normal and I have started training again. I found all my props that had floated away and set everything back up. BLASTED my music and commenced to fine tuning my finals performance should we get picked. It is a cool performance....fast, light and fun. So I'm ready for that if we do well in the in hand course. I set up a in-hand course very similar to past challenges courses and Blossom is doing pretty good. We need to work on less hindquarter movement in the L as we make our turn..other than that, we have a pretty good chance. Well that is if they are just judging the horses and it's not all about showmanship and bling because I look down sometimes and at my horse and I don't always stand " all perched-up" that's what I call that little pose.
I did go to the other arena to check it out after the storm and see if it would be a good place to continue starting Blossom. Suddenly to my suprise,I was stopped by the Gestapo! Apparently their was no room in the park because all the horses that lost their barns during the storm had been moved there.
I tried to explain to the guy that I just wanted to use the public arena like I've been doing for years. He said they had a problem with people coming in and riding the horses that were in the evacuation barn. I told him I had my own horse to ride and I just wanted to use the arena, which by the way was empty and not even close to the 3 barns of evac horses. But this guy was just not having it. I'm not sure who the heck he was either, I asked him if he was a new park ranger. (I know all of them)
Oh well, some folks are grumpy.....I'll try another time...maybe tomorrow he will have resigned from his post and if not, that's Ok, I know she will make a good riding horse one day and I'm not required to ride in the competition anyway.
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