Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Golden-crown? & Day 264 CJSM-book III

 
Me “Golden”-Crown!
 
 
Seven most-precious jewels adorn me metaphoric Golden-crown
Lady Candice! Beth! Becky! Z-man! Lauren! Lexi! Anna! Found!
 
Amen!
 
 
 
Plus:
 
 
 
 
Day 264
 
 
English riding lessons:
Dressage, Jumping and Cross-country!
 
 
 
Once you get into any hobby, the reach for excellence becomes an exciting goal. Each new “bright-spot” derives satisfaction and a curiosity for further adventure. With horses as the focus of the diversion, the “costs” escalate geometrically with an advancing time table. Great!?
Oh! It is not necessary to invest a fortune in a horse; you don’t absolutely need a stable-estate beginning at a half a million dollars; a truck and trailer can wait; one can lease and board a horse.
But, not one for lolly-gagging or malingering, we bought our steeds, purchased land, constructed fences, acquired some mighty fine leather to rest our derrieres on. I even spent a winter building “jumps” and painting them so the kids could practice “jumping”. (Why a good ole dollar “jump”-rope wouldn’t suffice---I’ll never know!) Yeah! I sure enough spoiled them!
I rode (if you could call it that) western---cowboy-style…success was not getting thrown!
Candy and the girls opted for “sophistication” where the equestrian niceties were concerned.
English-riding was their penchant within the broader scope of “equestrian’-pursuits.
Dressage displays a beautiful anticipation of horse and rider in syncopated-fantasy dance.
The rider in her smartly-tailored coat with crisp white blouse and tie sporting a velvet-covered helmet along with high-top laced black boots and jodhpurs, black riding gloves and crop, flows in symphony with the twelve-hundred pound beast softy-beautiful in cadenced-rhythm. Subtle “cues” from master to partner dictate waves of graceful solitude. A pleasure to observe. Wow!
Stadium-jumping pits the rider’s ability and her steed’s power, agility and discipline against horizontal, vertical and oxer standards to challenge the “expertise” of horse and rider acumen.
Here is an exciting event-show exposition dedicated to enhance the appreciation of horse, rider, spectator and fellow-competitors alike. Talent and balance combined with knowledge.
This is not a participant-sport for the faint-of-heart or novice, either rider or spectator!
Cross-country takes place in the out-of-doors over hill and dale challenging horse and rider with stationary jumps placed strategically to require talent and expertise to negotiate unscathed.
Now! Here is an English-riding competition that will make an old man’s heart race at the viewing; one can literally feel the wind and fly the “unicorn” soaring the cerulean sky abyss.
Took a very few cross-country challenges in my day---even…stayed aboard one time!
Our girls and the granddaughters excel in these events; here resides excellence-of-reality!
 
“Tally-Ho!”
 
Ah! Cookie Jar Sweet “Hold on to his ears!” Memories!
 


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