[AnAmericanMother]

Good morning (actually I guess it's afternoon)!

Levi is HUGE! I am only 5'6" and I have very short legs, my mare is just about 16 hh but very skinny, so she doesn't take up much slack in my legs.

We are down at my folks' house on the GA coast -- we brought the dogs but it's 104 degrees here, very humid, the wind is dead calm, and every time the dogs stick their noses outside the deerflies and skeeters just descend on them in a cloud! They are VERY unhappy!

My hubby has to take my son back home tomorrow for school orientation day -- so he will drop the dogs off at our trainers for the rest of the week! They have 40 fenced acres on a high hill with a pond down below, an acre of dog yard with 8' stock fencing, and a nice breeze and no bugs to speak of. The dogs will be MUCH happier there.

[MissTargets]

New thread pingy!

[Beaker]

He is large and in charge, that's for sure. He's a lovely, balanced, very sweet horse. At 5' I look even smaller when I'm around him, and I get teased a lot for it, everyone always asks me if I get a nose bleed. I think that picture was the 1st time I had ever ridden him, hence the chair seat and awful position. (Things have greatly improved since then. We now look like a real horse/rider team) I knew that my stirrups were too short, but it was impossible to try to guess the correct height from the ground because of his height, and by the time that I got on him, I thought "the heck with it"! He's not so broad, but he does take up all the slack in my leg quite easily. When I first started with him, my legs felt so ineffective- I couldn't get them around him enough to actually use them!

We have another dressage clinic this Saturday, and a show in October.

AAM: Yikes that's hot. Humidity is what kills you. It is always humid up here.

[carton253]

What kind of horse is Levi?