First Ride

I always joked to Sarah that if my pessoa saddle doesn't fit my future new horse I'll cry. Well today I tried on my pessoa and what do you know, it doesn't fit. Tried my Kieffer on my boy and that didn't even come close to fitting, I had a feeling it wouldn't fit since its a medium/wide tree. So I am slowly in the market for both a jump and a dressage saddle. I'm hoping once Mason fills out my pessoa will fit because its brand new! I bought it in August of last year.

I couldn't have asked for a better first ride on Mason today. Sarah was riding Riff, and Kate and her mom were trying to see if Finn has any potential to be a therapeutic horse. Not sure if that went very well. Anyways, I did a quick walk, trot, canter. Mainly walking and trotting today. I want to take it really slow with him, there is no need to rush. Considering I had a jointed eggbutt in his mouth he was really good! I ordered 2 different double jointed loose rings from smartpak on Sunday so they should be here by tomorrow night.

Its crazy having everyone come up to me and tell me how cute my little Mason is, its not crazy that people think he's cute, because he is adorable! The thing that is crazy is that I never ever thought I would have my own horse! Its still so unreal that he is mine, all mine! I love him already! I will admit, I had a semi panic attack today riding him. My attack was that I have a horse who is too green, and since he is 16.1 hh he's going to have some big movements. I hope my panic attack will go away once I get a few lessons in. Speaking of lessons, I have a lesson with Julie Kelly tomorrow night. I'm excited to have one on my new guy, I don't want to do too much partly because I want to take it slow with him and also I have the eggbutt in. Call me crazy but I want him to get use to the eggbutt.

Going back on my rides. Today I rode Mason first, mainly because everyone wanted to see me on him, I knew it was going to be a quick ride, and I'm trying to switch who gets ridden first, Pokita or Mason. Since I'm going to ride Pokita tomorrow first with Julie I thought I would ride Mason first today.

I think Miss Pokita is jealous, today she saw me drive up and go straight over to Masons paddock and talk to him, I didn't even go near Pokita's. I might be totally over thinking this but today when I was grooming Pokita, she wasn't so lovey dovey with me like she usually is. I will admit I am taking a new interest to Mason but I really am not trying to. I love Pokita, even on our bad days. Hopefully she will come to terms with Mason.

All for now, I'll write how my lesson goes with Julie tomorrow.