Hello!

My first official post, hooray! I promise I will try to continually write... Well, I guess I was reading all these other horse blogs and decided it was about time that I started my own. I figured my love or writing and horses can be combined, finally. I guess some history is in order for my horse first off. Samwise, "Sam", is a 10 year old TB off the track. When I was a freshman in high school I went to the track with my event trainer to finally buy my first horse. Boy, I really didn't know what I was getting myself into. Life with Sam over these 5 years has been full of twists and turns. First, Sam is not the easy type of horse and I know everybody will say no horse is really the easy type but Sam is a special boy. He gets really grumpy and really doesn't want to do anything really unless you have him going forward, but thats a whole different story. However strange and sometimes I really don't understand what is going through his mind, I gotta love his dorky personality.

Its funny because during my high school years and previously I was pretty serious into riding, the whole eventing thing. I had a schedule of what days were for flatwork, galloping, stadium jumping, and the whole system. In addition I was a working student for a number of years so I knew what do barn wise, health wise, and pretty much everything else. I competed for a number of years and had a dream of eventually going in the upper levels. But now everything changed, riding is no more of a scheduled acitivity but something that is treasured and valued. To tell you the truth, my horse and I were under constant training that I really lost the whole feeling of riding for the love of it. But now with the crazy schedule I have, I really value those times when I can actually get out to the barn and spend two hours of my day with somebody that is there for the same reasons as I. I especially love just grooming my horse now. The whole barn quite, only the soft munching of hay and light snowfall outside. It is really just the best therapy.

Sam and I have our best moments but we had our fair share of hideous ones too. I think it takes a while for people and myself personally to see what you want and need is usually right in front of you, you just have to look. Its been a long road for us and we've got lots of years to come, but I think I finally realized that without Sam I could be doing what I am now. He is there to remind me that life is not all about work and grades theres something warm and fuzzy about it too : )

Well I hope that was a welcoming intro and theres definitely more to come. My week is going to be busy, but whats new. But I am looking forward to just spending some time chatting and brushing my fuzzy friend that will always be there.