Note: guess who meant to post this last week and forgot? This girl. If you’re recently joining us here at The Almanac, then you may or may not be aware that I have ridden a lot of horses at a lot of barns in a lot of saddles in a lot of disciplines. Because of this, […]
Tag: Kelsey’s posts
Questionable Barn Practices and Customs
If riding and working with horses requires anything of a person, it requires principles. One must be firm in their beliefs and their requirements for their education as a horsewoman or horseman as well as the care of their equine partner. Obviously no barn is perfect, but there are certain things that are always red […]
Six-month review: How is adult life going?
I’ve been on my own––paying my own rent and utilities, feeding myself and my dog, maintaining my car, all of that stuff––for a little over six months now. And I had this utterly shocking revelation: it’s hard to be a grown-up. I’ve had to make sacrifices of things I want/want to do in favor of […]
We are looking for amateurs…
As some of you may know, the team of Poor Amateurs has been looking rather thin lately. That is the essence of the “poor” portion of the name, after all. If we can’t afford to ride, that does eliminate a lot of our blogging material. It’s rather unfortunate, but that is the way of life […]
Blog Hop: Dealbreakers
So this is a super fun blog hop and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading everyone’s responses! Shout out to Amanda for coming up with this one. And shout out to Olivia for blogging about it so I could read it and then read everyone’s responses. When I was a junior, hungry for saddle time, you could […]
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