Melting Marshmellow vs. Magic Meaghan

Hello Everyone,

There is actually a good excuse for the serious lack of blogging over the past 5 months (I can't believe it has been that long). I have had NO internet. Can you imagine!! I live in a tiny, yet extremely cute little village! The cable company pretty much had to wire the whole village for DSL, but I now have internet!! WhooHoo! Ok, now that I am over having the internet, I can get back to writing my blog.

Reader's Digest version of the past 5 months: Riding is going great. Getting my butt kicked most days, but on a few, very rare occasions Heike has used the nickname "Magic Meaghan" and "Dressage Rider" to describe a few fleeting moments in over a 1000 rides over the past few months. ALL of the other moments are reserved for the "melting marshmallow" comment! Haha. Heike describes my sitting trot as melting marshmallow! Not good! So I am working extremely hard to have some positive tension in my upper body, which is only possible now that I have my lower leg on the horse (Instead of the beautiful, yet ineffective "dressage" leg that I once had)

I have ridden anywhere from 4 to 10 horses per day, ranging from out of control 3 year olds to seasoned Grand Prix horses. I have been able to work continually with Mr., Myners throughout the winter, and have made some big improvement in my seat and have been able to file away some excellent feelings of a deeper seat and seriously collected canter with a light rein contact. I will describe some of the exercises in the next few blogs. Some are crazy but they work.

Spring has finally come. The winter was so terrible. Everyone has said that it was the worst Winter Germany has seen in 20 years. So I am thinking of Wintering in New England next year, it has to be better that this insane German weather! Haha! At the stable there is a beautifully groomed galloping track, so I have spent alot of time outside in the past few weeks with my youngsters just going forward and straight without running away!! So much fun!

So I promise there will be more consistent updates from now on! Thank you to everyone for reading and your continued support! I hope everyone is enjoying springtime!

-Meaghan