Long desired Zebra tights

I finally was able to get in touch with Evelyn (aka: The tights lady).  We had an initial problem coordinating our time zones as I was in bed by the time she got home from work.   So last night I stayed up a couple hours later than the norm and called her to get my 2011 tights made.  It will be a few weeks before these come in.

The persisting snow is putting the "K bash" on my lessons/clinic thing.  The folks I'm going with do not have an indoor arena, so I keep waiting for the snow pack to clear, and it has not done so yet.   So I may just have to shoot for a  clinic to focus on a couple of things that are important to me, and schedule my actual lessons for the summer months that I do not intend any LD's in July and August.  I do know that Phebes winter hiatus needs to end in a hurry as she is way to full of herself.  It takes about a half hour of longing to get her head into the right gear.  I want to have her acting like a mannerly mare before the clinic to avoid wasting time on non-issues vs. what I want to gain out of it.  I hope to put the full focus on gait transitions (happy, no pinned ears, no cranking head pissy mare stuff).  Usually I can get the curve of something fairly quickly as riding goes once I understand how to do it correctly.  I was able to work out my entire unbalanced trotting thing in one lesson, and it totally liberated me in our work from that period forward.  In this case it is a little more a horse issue than a me issue.  I can ride the canter fine when she is acting nice, but if she starts being a crab, dropping her head and shoulder, I lose confidence.  She has my number.   So that will be the big issue to work on.  Clinic first, then I can back it up with some lessons as time allows.  I may have to call in a couple of friends for some ring-side advice on my technique (oh Lida..............!  Nicole ? ).

Today LSEGH and I are enjoying the fruits of labors with lunch at The Olive Garden.  nommm nommm nommmm! ~E.G.