Award:]

Do you know who I love? Lexa from Notes from a Horse Trainer, In Training, not only because shes super adorable, artistic and is a bad ass on the guitar, but also because she gave me this award:

So thanks Lexa:]

Here are the rules:
1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this award

2. Share 7 things about yourself

3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers

4. Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award!

Onto the 7 things!

1. I totally wish I had more time this time of year to spend with my horses. I can only imagine what awful new tricks the three year olds have thought up out there running wild. Not to mention Shining, she probably thinks that she is a wild range mustang by now.
2. Stormy is my love[ in case I didn't mention that in the last post]
3. I want to be as good as the guys when it comes to cowboying. The greatest compliment I ever got from anyone is when a friend of my dad's[ who happens to be an amazing cowboy himself] told me that I rode better then any of the boys we were riding with. Or I guess when another one of my dad's friends told me that Stormy was a damn good horse and he would buy her in a heartbeat just because of her natural talent and how well everything else had been taught to her.
4. I want a gaited Walker, I know that I'd be sacrificing speed for gait, but I just like those horses. Or if not, maybe a Morab or Morgan/Quarter something along those lines I just love Morgans they're just such chill impressive little horses, and they aren't bad on cows either.
5.  I wanted to go to school at the Art Institute but can't seem to handle the idea of leaving Storm and Shining for such a large amount of time.
6. I've always wanted to brush race but up here we don't have many races. But if I could I would love or race Storm or my dad's big gelding.
7. I've tried out and can ride many different styles, western[of course] english, huntseat, dressage, barrel racing, driving, sidesaddle and of course just plain old leisurely bareback which I gotta say is best.

Awards, ahh yes awards. Well if it wasn't cheating I'd send it back Lexa's way since her blog is my favorite, but I have a few other horse blogs that I love...

1. Mustang Diaries
2. I Will Jump Sweet Jumps
3. Cross Country Dreamin'
4. The Wild Horse Project
5. A Horse Crazy American in Germany

I turned my back and lost my heart

So I was riding the other day[imagine that] Gathering cows with some friends of my dad's and some lady asked what Stormy's breeding is. I think I must of sat there like an idiot until I finally managed to stammer out some BS about it not being anything special.
I am pretty ashamed. If she woulda been Shining I could of rattled off her whole pedigree on her dam's side and most of the important stuff on her sire's. Actually I could that with most of our horses, if not all of them. I don't know why I didn't pay more attention to Storm's.
Actually I guess I do, from when I first started trainiing her I knew it wouldn't be permenant. Get close enough to her that she can trust you, make sure she knows you won't hurt, but don't get attached. Thats the ways its always been, don't get to attached to the cows you're going to eat them. Don't get to close to the pups once they're used to the cows they're gonna be given away... So it just came natural, its work, not bonding. Besides at the time I had the promise of a colt if her training worked out. A baby colt, which at the time training a colt from birth up was my dream. And some crazed gray 5 year old filly was not going to interfere.
But I underestimated the power her brown see-into-your-soul eyes could have on my hardened little cowgirl heart. While I taught her, she taught me to love her. All of her, every strange habit, all her weird little tricks The way when I was teaching her to flex she always would nudge my foot and how that developed into her doing it every time something worries her. Her wild fright of wire and anything that remotely resembles it. The way she loves to run just for the pure hell of it. The wild way she has when it comes to cows, and how much of a Quarter she is in the way she works them and loves it. How she'd rather prance then just watch. Through the past 5 or 6 years shes taught me to love her in all kinds of little ways and now my heart is totally lost to her. I think leaving her behind when I go to school in the fall will be one of the hardest things, she is my pretty shoulder to cry on and I know that with me going away Paul's gonna want her back and I am not ready for that...
She stole my heart only to be stolen[okay not technically] from me.