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The Benefits Of Walking Believe it or not, you can accomplish a lot with your horse by simply walking. And this applies to leading him around, as well as being up in the saddle. Walking can improve ground manners, your physical health (as well as your horse) and also build trust for the both of …
Confident Rider Challenge Day 28 Oh my goodness, I am cutting it close this evening! I never seem to have enough time in the day, even when I get an extra day or two off from work. There is always so much to do, on a normal schedule. But then add in writing a blog …
Budget Equestrian Weekly Podcast Episode 14 Welcome back to another podcast episode! Yes, you have found me, Lisa, The Budget Equestrian and my podcast where each week I will share with you different ideas for you to make the most of the time you have with your horse. And in just a few days the …
Confident Rider Challenge Day 25 I don’t know about you, but I am finding that every day I get out and work with my horses it just seems normal. So even after I get home from work, I still make a point to work with at least one horse, and sometimes both of them. In …
Confident Rider Challenge Day 24 When I started this challenge, I did it with the intention to try and gain more confidence in the saddle. I was already pretty confident on the ground working around my horses. But in the saddle, my confidence was lacking. And now, 24 days into the challenge I can honestly …
Budget Equestrian – The Podcast I have been wanting to do this for a while now. And coming up with ideas for a podcast is not a problem for me. My difficulty was in putting all of the pieces together. From the hosting, to how to get a podcast onto ITunes, and all of the …
My Last Lesson I have been waiting for this day, the day when I would have my last scheduled weekly riding lesson. When I was driving to the barn, I kind of felt like a kid on the last day of school before summer vacation. I wasn’t as sad as I thought I would be …
Riding Lesson Hiatus This week will be my last riding lesson for a few months. I keep mentioning this, sprinkled throughout my blog posts, I will be having surgery on May 23rd. I know a lot of women have gone through this surgery, and everything has worked out just fine. I am so nervous about …
Riding Lesson Change It’s that time again, time for another weekly riding lesson! And I don’t know if the nervousness from thinking about having surgery is creeping into my horsey time, but I have been getting nervous again in anticipation of riding. Which is weird. I haven’t been nervous when I am riding at home, …
My Weekly Riding Lesson- Ringo’s Back! I think for the last 5 or 6 riding lessons I have been riding Murphy. And I love Murphy, he is so kind and forgiving, and he makes me work, but his gaits are so easy to ride. He makes me feel like I am getting better with my …
My Weekly Riding Lesson I was nervous in going to my lesson tonight, for a few reasons. First, my lesson last week was probably my worst lesson in a long while. I mean I am improving. And normally I can find at least one good thing in the lesson. But after I almost crashed into …
Weekly Video Recap Instead of calling this a weekly video recap, I might update it to what it really is, a bi-weekly video recap, because that is when I have had the time to go over the video’s I have uploaded. And since I have been a little in the slacker department when it comes …
My Weekly Riding Lesson For the first time since I started my riding lessons back in January, My husband was able to come to my lesson. It was probably boring for him, but I am so grateful he came. For the first time I was able to see what I looked like while I was …
A Week Of Reviews – Centaur Blue Steel D Ring Bit If you are anything like me, you are always looking for the perfect piece of equipment that will work well for your horse. And this week I want to share with you some of the new items I have found for myself, and my …
Weekly Video Wrap Up (x2) Last week I was so busy that I wasn’t able to get up a weekly video wrap up. But I decided that I would include those videos in this weekly wrap up, just in case you wanted to see what I was able to get out there. But I think …
It Is Time To Canter – My Weekly Riding Lesson I honestly did not think this would happen tonight, but it did, I cantered! I know that may not be a big deal to some, but for me that is a major accomplishment. And there is a reason for that. You see, way back in …
My Weekly Riding Lesson This week’s riding lesson was a little bit different. Ok, actually my riding lesson was completely different. You see today, I gave myself my own lesson. The barn where I take my weekly riding lessons was upgrading their dirt in the indoor arena. SO this meant no riding lesson this week. And …
Weekly Video Wrap Up Well it’s that time again, time for my weekly video wrap up! I was right when I said I would be scaling back on video production when the weather got nicer. Spring officially came last week, and I think we decided to see how much stuff we could do in the …
My Weekly Riding Lesson I am just about 3 months into my professional riding lessons now This is my 11th week of weekly riding lessons. I think I am improving, in my overall riding. My instructor is very good at sharing with me where I am improving. If I just remember to come home and …
Weekly Video Wrap Up Well here we are at the end of another week! I don’t know about you, but this week was super busy for me. Maybe it’s because of all of the projects I am doing. And the weather was much warmer this week. So this week’s weekly video wrap up only has …
Budget Equestrian Weekly Video Recap It is time for a weekly video recap! And this week was pretty typical as far as getting videos uploaded is concerned. I was able to get 4 videos up for the week, which I am happy with. Yes, it would be awesome to be an over achiever and continue …
My Weekly Riding Lesson Well for the first time I did not do as well in my weekly riding lesson. The lesson itself was great. My trainer was supportive and kind. I was just not riding well. And I learned a valuable lesson today, which I will share with you after I fill you in …
Budget Equestrian Weekly Video Recap This week it was a challenge to get all my videos out that I wanted too. I typically film on the weekends, but last weekend we helped my parents hang some dry wall, and then on Sunday I had my make up riding lesson. And with just those 2 things …
Bonus Riding Lesson This Week Bonus riding lesson! Yes! Well, it wasn’t really a bonus, it was playing catch up from missing last Thursday’s lesson. But it means two chances to ride this week, so I am looking at it as a bonus! And I assumed that it would be with my regular instructor, but …
