Life, in general

The last blog post I wrote was after my grand-dad died. I'm not going to lie; it has been hard to write anything with that post staring me in the face every time I come here. I have several drafts that I started but lost interest in halfway through. Nothing ever really felt that important.

After Gran'dad passed away, I lost interest in a lot of things that used to be important to me. One of the bigger things was riding, specifically riding Rosa. Chica helped me get through some of the bad times as she always has, but poor Rosa kind of got put on the back burner. I toyed with the idea of selling her again – why pay to board a horse that I'm not riding? But for whatever reason, I never actually made the ad.

I'm glad I didn't sell her. After working with a couple of friends who ride and used to train horses, I feel like Rosa and I have turned a corner in her training. We still have a long ways to go, but I'm regaining confidence when working with her. My dream of showing her in a reining show doesn't seem quite so far out of reach anymore.

I went and rode Rosa tonight, but beforehand, I spent some time trying to get acquainted with my "new" camera. It belonged to my grand-dad, and it's pretty special to me that I get to use an item that was so important to him. He took that camera everywhere, and it had photos on it from 2011. I'm still trying to figure out the settings on it – it's very different from the Nikons we use at work – but I took a few photos of the ponies tonight that I was happy with, despite the not ideal background.

I'll have another blog post soon about the last trip I went on – a mystery trip my husband planned for my 30th birthday! Stay tuned to find out where!