And the decision is....

Daun just asked about which decision I had made for my only June activity, either Groton House or the Heidi White clinic. I literally had just made the choice about half an hour before she asked about it! And the winner is....

Groton House!

After talking to Anne, the woman whose friend is actually hosting the clinic and who wanted me to do the clinic in the first place, I decided that Groton House would be a better choice. Anne actually prompted me to chose it. The Heidi clinic sounded great, it really did and I'd love to work with her sometime in the future, but the fact still remains that Groton House is amazing, from everything I've heard, and that since I won't be in Area 1 forever and I will be point chasing anyway, the horse trial would be the ideal June activity. I'm really excited - and nervous!! Groton House is no cakewalk, I can tell you that much!

Also on the showing front, I might not have a single show in August... not one. I MIGHT do GMHA at the VERY end of July/start of August, but that's still up in the air because even though I've heard great things about the event, that would be three heavy showing weekends in a row for Gogo, and that's just too much to ask of her, I think. So I dunno what we're doing in August, if anything at all. We'll just have to see.

Today's dressage went fairly well... actually, at the end we had what I would actually be willing to call a collected trot. No, really. She was very light in front, had quite a bit of cadence and a lot of articulation in her hind end joints (as per Vicki who was watching), she had a very light and honest contact, and I felt like I was holding it and maintaining it with my seat and legs alone. She gave me a totally comfortable place to sit, and we moved so easily. It was great, but it took 50 minutes to get to that point. Sigh Gogo! We also practiced our Novice B test, which we are doing at both King Oak and at Mystic. It was going quite well until little Mojo and his mother came into the ring and got in our way. Then our canters weren't quiet so awesome, but oh well. I'll have to really go through and work on what it is exactly that we need to improve upon in this particular test. Making sure we come back after the free walk (which is very early on in the test), right lead canter, and trot-canter transitions... all are important and need a bit more spit and polish. But we're getting there!

I said goodbye to my old saddle today :( But hellooooooooo to $900 bucks! It's helpful, that's for sure! It's time to re-start our Adequan, and switch Gogo back to Gro N' Win cause I hate the Purina ration balancer, but I have no idea where I'm going to find a Buckeye dealer around here. Hmmmm!

Again, with the sleep at the end of the post....



EDIT: I also have one more request of everyone (although now it's 4:00am and I'm trying to wake up...). The number of people following my blog has taken a dramatic upturn, which is awesome! But it also means I haven't been able to visit all the new blogs that belong to all these new followers, because there are so many! So if you frequent this blog a lot, leave a comment with the name of your blog too, if I'm not already following it. I love reading about other people's adventures!