It's beginning to feel like summer

Yesterday we took our Crimson and Lace final and I felt pretty good on it we finally got our carousel finals back and I got 102% I only missed one point. I was pretty happy with my score. It's crazy to think that next week is our combined final and I'm finished with training forever because I won't make it to varsity big red because I joined too late. After training I went and bought some stuff from the bake sale and watch the Precisionette ride for training. I haven't JI'd in so long. At 12 I had a walk-through for Royal. I was supposed to be a GPA3 point but neither of our CPS were there so I filled in that spot. The second drill I was 3-6 again :) for the ride I had Chey and we rode with flags. We got four drills in and got to line up in the white and run in! We have solved a lot of our issues but we keep slowing down. We aren't pushing the speed as much as we need to be in Order to get our drill to 6 minutes. I had Liberty immediately after and I rode Bandit. He was actually a lot better than normal! I took off his bridle and we warmed up in some jumps. We did three drills and I rode in 2nd four or third pair. It was so dusty we could barely see the jumps! Talk about scary! Then we unsaddled and I watched white trick to cool down because it was sooooooo hot.

RIP - Tanner

RIP - Tanner #24

~ Strangles

Hectic Day - 5/21

Last day of pictures and boy am I glad. Pink ranger training was just walk throughs from 8-9. I called the Carousel one. I watched Varsity until my estes meeting at 10. I AM SO EXCITED!!!! I don't really like our stall card design though :( Then at 11 my team also had a meeting where we reviewed videos from our old rides and critiqued them. We did a few walk throughs in the white at 12. Due to all of those events I had to miss batons, vaulting, and ropes. At 1 I costumed for batons and set up my vaulting quick change. Batons and vaulting were back to back. And vaulting was a 2. Our pictures took ages because our team is so big. I raced down to royal sooooo fast when they were done. I made it in the middle of the first drill so I got to go in for the last three! I rode 2-6, and 3-6 twice. We modified part of spanish bowline to cut down our time. After Royal I had cleaning. Sorry this post is short but it was a super busy day.

Picture Day Part 1!

Wow what a fun filled hectic day! Yesterday was the first day of pictures! Due to the scheduling we had to start pink ranger training half an hour early. I was top scorer on the first quiz for crimson and lace and I passed my 3rd sequence too! We were dismissed earl and I raced to my White liberty Costuming!!! I was so excited to have all the fringe on hahaha. White Liberty 1 is a purple ish color, White Liberty 2 is green, White Liberty 3 is hot pink, and White Liberty 4 is blue. After that picture was done I changed into my Dress Reds. I got to watch the beginning of the Precisionette ride before I had to costume for ROYAL! I was WAY to happy to finally have the full costume on minus the hair scrunchies. We wore our purple sided vests with red jeans. I finally feel like Royalty. After our pictures we had a walk through in the red. I was GPA 3 and 3-6. It went well minus the talking. Then I had a short break before RED ROPE PICTURES! I had all my new team pictures yesterday so I was very excited. The cuffs actually fit very well but my vest was gigantic. We didn't get the new ones done in time :( But our parts aren't assigned so maybe I will get a vest that mostly fits for estes. After pictures were over I went and found Chey. As usual she was in class. Royal got our crap together this weekend and pulled out 2 1/2 amazing drills! I was so glad to have the royal I know and love back. We rode with flags and truly worked as a team. It felt amazing. For the ride I rode GPA 2, 3-6, and 4-2. I had to hand Chey off to a team mate so I could race to get Skeeter ready for Liberty. We rode our drill twice and jumped for the last half of class. Skeeter was SO hyper. After that I unsaddled Dixie and headed home. I also got crimson and lace final approved..... NO MORE DIAGRAMS FOREVER! I'M SO UPSET!!!!!! If only I could do Red Team training...too old. Oh well I'm so happy to be a Royal Ranger that I really could care less :)

Colorado Saturday

Saturday was pretty mellow but hectic at the same time. I helped out in the pasture catching horses. I said hi to stretch and HE FOLLOWED ME! I didn't have any treats he just followed me around. It made me so happy. I miss the big guy. Then I headed to pink ranger training. I felt good on Q1 for Crimson and Lace and I passed my second sequence. We did two walk throughs and I called one. We finished diagramming the second half. So about 45 diagrams with all the adds. I had conflicts for batons and white vaulting with pink ranger training. I rode Patrick for JI @11. It started raining pretty hard. At 12 red ropes was cancelled because of the weather and I helped move horses to the shelter so I got soaked. Royal went much better this week and we rode with flags!!!! I got to be 3-6 again and GPA 3. I really hope I get 3-6 for Estes!!! I like that spot a lot. I had cleaning after and I turned in my stall card design. Then I headed home to diagram!

Snow/Rain - Spring?

Saturday had some weird weather. It was a rainy snowy day but not too miserable. Just cold and muddy. My morning began with PR Training. We started Crimson & Lace yesterday. I passed my sequence first try! Then we were assigned the first half of the drill. The only catch is this drill has adds after every chart. So we got around 48 diagrams to do. I diagrammed last night and all day today and they are finished!!! Sitting and diagramming for 12 hours straight is tough but I really enjoy having them out of the way before school starts. Juniors was cancelled so I didn't get to JI today so I had nothing between training and Royal. I watched Nighthorse and Crimson. All the teams seemed to be having rough days. I was really excited for Royal because we were supposed to ride with flags for the first time, but for some reason we didn't. Oh well next week I guess. I had to pull Chey out of a class but we still made it in time for warm ups. We had a pretty long warm up to ensure the horses were ready to go. I was GPA 3 for the first drill. It went much better than last week but we still had some rough patches. I got to be 3-6 again for drill 2. I honestly really like that spot and wouldn't mind taking it to Estes! I get to be one away from the outside of propeller and break off for Spanish Bowline. This drill wasn't so hot though :( Idk what happened but I know we will pull it together. I studied Flag before the ride but I'm really going to dedicate some extra time this week to Royal's drill. We only have 8 rides left until Estes which is super terrifying but SO EXCITING at the same time. Immediately after Royal I had liberty so my teammate took Chey home. I always feel bad not taking care of my horse but back to back classes, what do you do lol. My first White Liberty 1 ride went well! I had Bernie who was fabulous but we didn't jump which was probably a good thing because the arena was really hard. We worked on our drill but it was hard because half of our team had conflicts. After I took Bernie home I left fairly quickly so I could start on my diagrams.