Next up on the wishlist

I think that we all have constant wishlists when it comes to ponies, but usually the big things are on the "someday wishlist" as opposed to the "I'll-be-buying-that-tomorrow wishlist".

For the past year or so I have been on a bit of a financial diet (or perhaps the term "famine" would be more accurate).  I've been doing quite well, not to toot my own horn.

Oh, who am I kidding, toot away!

But when I fall off the bandwagon, I like to fall hard.  Like an avalanche.

So I think I'm going to buy Walker a new Western saddle.

And myself new English riding boots.

Cuz they go together, right?

I would totally like to try something like this out

Ok, let me explain.  It is spring now.  And although it is difficult to tell that through the snow that is currently falling outside my window, spring means trails.  And trails, in my messed up brain, means Western saddle.  Because I like to lounge while I trail ride.  I want to be strapped to my horse like he were a rocket launcher and I were going to the moon.

I have had "incidents" before.  Like when Walker clotheslined me on a not-so-bendy tree branch, and I managed to stay in my fantastic Western saddle (with my head down by one stirrup, of course).

Or any and every time I have been in the not-fenced-in outdoor arena.  The barn owner is already conducting lessons out there in three feet of mud, and I'm nervously avoiding him.  My brain is not ready for that yet.  But a Western saddle would help.

What is wrong with my current Western saddle, you ask?  Oh, absolutely nothing.  It's great.  It's also an antique.  And I would really love something that I wouldn't worry about as much.  Something more rough and tumble, as it were.

As for the boots, my calves are too fat muscular and they won't fit.  Because I hate half chaps and refuse to wear my Winter riding boots any longer, I have been riding around with the boots half zipped up and flapping in the wind like the classy broad that I am.  It is time.

If I scrounge up the money, it should be rather easy to find a Western saddle.  The boots on the other hand... I would prefer to try them on.  And since Greenhawk has fairly limited options, I may do a little roadtrip.  To Dover Saddlery.  In another country.

I do want to see a Dover store some day!  Some girls dream of designer stores, I dream of tack shops.