Masquerade by Jessica Burkhart

Author:Jessica Burkhart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

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7:02 a.m.: Life is good!

I don’t have much time to write this morning, but I feel like I’m going to burst if I don’t!!! I already blogged about one thing in my last post, but I’ve had time to reflect on it, and I have a few more thoughts. The second awesome-slash-amazing thing just happened.

About the show: I blogged last time that Whisper and I attended the schooling show hosted by Canterwood. It was our first show together, which on its own is something that makes me très, très proud.

As I’ve said a bunch of times, the schooling show was the first competition since Red Oak. The show that wouldn’t let go until I competed again. I couldn’t have been happier with the results of the schooling show.

Whisper is incredibly green and new to the show circuit compared to most of the other horses we were up against. She’s only five, and we’ve been a pair since summer. I would have been truly happy if we’d attended the show, gotten Whisper the experience and feel of a competition, and not won any ribbons.

It would have also been enough for me to show and not place. I had everything to prove. Not to anyone else, either. To myself. I needed to get back in the arena at a competitive level and prove it to myself that I could do it. I wasn’t trying to make myself do something that I didn’t want to do—I’d been excited about the show since Mr. C had announced it.

Excited and terrified.

Getting back into the competitive circle, though, was my ultimate reason for joining Canterwood’s riding team. This schooling show was the parfait (Oops, right. Promised KK that I’d translate all French words on my blog! Will do starting here.) opportunity for me as an equestrian. I didn’t have to travel, worry about how that would affect Whisper, and get the both of us used to new riding spaces. Obviously, we can’t always show on home turf, but it was exactly what Whisper and I needed for our first competition. Next time, we’ll be ready to take the next step and travel.

Okay, so (I need to get to the point!) completing two classes with Whisper and being more than happy with our rides would have felt like a huge win to me even if we hadn’t placed.

Except, as I blogged last time, we actually DID win a class. The show closed with a blue and a red ribbon for Whisper and me.

I’m staring at them now, and I still can’t believe they’re mine. Sorry for rambling! Geeze! All I really wanted to say was that I’m still thinking about the show and how grateful I am to have a wonderful, willing, smart, beautiful horse like Whisper. I cannot wait for Mr. C to announce our next competition.

So, the NEW thing: I just got back to my room after my first run with D. (I could do a row of smiley faces! LOL!)

The weather was

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