[HairOfTheDog]

I still remember/use alot of the tips she gave me. She's very good with a horse. I've often wished she was more approachable. I actually think she is more rigid with her horses then I am:). She's the one that taught me to be careful about treating them as if they were a pet like a dog would be. She made so much sense to me that it stuck.

We're lucky if we had some early training from such people. My early trainer was not very 'approachable' either, she was harder on us kids than she was the horses, but her lessons stuck also. (She scared me to death ;~D)

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

This lady scared me too:), and I wasn't a kid. About the same age as her. I don't know what it is about her, she was very very nice, and very encouraging, but I don't think I could call her again for help.

I use to tell Jenny that my goal as far as horses were concerned was to be like Meg. She rode her horses all the time, rain or shine, hot or cold, down the side of the road, and always looked so calm and unconcerned about the whole thing. The year Charlie was in kindergarten and I had to take him to school every afternoon, she was almost always out riding down the side of the road. I thought that was so cool:). I was very envious.

One time I saw her sitting on a horse in front of her mail box, one leg crooked around the horn, reading her mail...LOL...funny what impresses us, huh:)

Becky