Michen
Well-Known Member
We have had the most amazing summer! Lots of placings at 90 eventing, holidays, beach rides, camps, pub rides, pairs hunter trials with Bear. Just endless fun and Boggle is on the best form of his life. He’s so full of buzz, happy and knows he completely and utterly owns me in every way possible whilst at the same time always being 100% generous and on my side.
We never made it around our BE100 after two disastrous attempts. One where I fell off SJ (totally my fault, didn’t have a stride and did nothing resulting in.. the below!). One where I got my finger wrapped around the rein during a bad jump in a warm up and busted it, there was no way of going XC. But we finished on a 27.5 dressage at Calmsden champs where we would have been second but were apparently a minute under the optimum time ?
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Next week begins a whole new adventure for us both.
We are off to America! Specifically Denver, Colorado. My visa got approved at the embassy last week so I’m just waiting for my passport to be returned with it in. Boggle is leaving earlier than I thought, the 14th, to get to Amsterdam and then he flies to LA on the 18th. Three days quarantine then a few days overland to Colorado. So he’s actually going to be leaving before I am which is weird, though if all goes well he should arrive on a Sunday so I can be around to receive him.
It’s so strange to think this little runty, pain in the backside of a horse that I bought off Facebook has become such a huge part of my life that there is no way I’d go without him. Very excited to see what adventures the USA offer although I imagine they will be lacking for the first 6 months whilst I get my head down and work as I’ll be travelling a lot. So many different emotions about leaving and packing up, saying endless goodbyes and lots of tears but it’s all made much better knowing my biggest comfort will be there with me.
Here’s to the next chapter with my one in a million side kick!
Thanks HHO for half a decade of Boggle support when things were not quite so easy ?
We never made it around our BE100 after two disastrous attempts. One where I fell off SJ (totally my fault, didn’t have a stride and did nothing resulting in.. the below!). One where I got my finger wrapped around the rein during a bad jump in a warm up and busted it, there was no way of going XC. But we finished on a 27.5 dressage at Calmsden champs where we would have been second but were apparently a minute under the optimum time ?
?.Next week begins a whole new adventure for us both.
We are off to America! Specifically Denver, Colorado. My visa got approved at the embassy last week so I’m just waiting for my passport to be returned with it in. Boggle is leaving earlier than I thought, the 14th, to get to Amsterdam and then he flies to LA on the 18th. Three days quarantine then a few days overland to Colorado. So he’s actually going to be leaving before I am which is weird, though if all goes well he should arrive on a Sunday so I can be around to receive him.
It’s so strange to think this little runty, pain in the backside of a horse that I bought off Facebook has become such a huge part of my life that there is no way I’d go without him. Very excited to see what adventures the USA offer although I imagine they will be lacking for the first 6 months whilst I get my head down and work as I’ll be travelling a lot. So many different emotions about leaving and packing up, saying endless goodbyes and lots of tears but it’s all made much better knowing my biggest comfort will be there with me.
Here’s to the next chapter with my one in a million side kick!
Thanks HHO for half a decade of Boggle support when things were not quite so easy ?
keep us posted ?
though there are bigger herd type options if I want him to go more au natural. Need to see how he does with Colorado winter temps.