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Trainer went birdwatching last week: \o>/, so I haven't ridden in 2 weeks. It's the end of the semester \_/ (a book?--that's hard to illustrate), so I'm of course tense and stressed out. Trainer...

The rather unceremonious end to my lesson tonight:

Cantering nicely.
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What's that ahead?
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Grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay)
Spent 4 years in college on the Main Line, Pennsylvania (outside of Philadelphia)
Now back in grad school in Berkeley, CA where I should be reading...

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Vaulting!

I got a great bath screen-capture, but don't have a photo account to post it with. :( Congratulations!

So I somehow managed to exceed my alotted bandwidth this week between Suerte and Africam...and just had to take a "quiz" about acceptable use policies in order to restore my access. No questions...

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(trainer's note: jumping form needs massive improvement.)

Elephants on Africam!
Suerte's in the opposite corner...hmmm :lol: (just the window and means absolutely nothing besides let me out, I presume)

Giraffes! and lots more antelope (?) thingys. And Zebras!

she's up! can those legs get any wider apart?:lol:

per the Marestare board, a filly

In addition to Horse Heaven and A Year at the Races, Jane Smiley's Barn Blind is also very good.

love the colt sign!

...her hind legs dissappeared! Bedding as sheets? I guess when you're (theoretically) almost foaling, anything goes :)

I do! I'm so sad I didn't keep a lot of the "horse trash" books I grew up reading. I kept my favorites, but a lot of the not high quality literature but still enjoyable ones got purged...

Beauty is by Bill Wallace :)

All of Jane Smiley's horse books: Barn Blind (fiction), Horse Heaven (fiction) and A Year at the Races (non-fiction).

But for pure nostalgia, A Very Young Rider and Black Beauty.