Getting Organized: Ready to Take On the Next Show

My trainer, doesn't go easy on me. She knows I want to go places with my riding, and she knows that it's going to take a lot of hard work to get there.

At my last show, I wasn't all that organized. I didn't have my horse wrapped to get on the trailer in time, forget my lunge whip (among a few other things), and didn't have any of my white show blankets washed (I ended up having to buy one at the show). As soon as we got back home, my trainer made me get organized.

I spent the first day back at the barn doing laundry, unpacking my tack trunk, and cleaning. Lots of cleaning. I washed all my white saddle pads so that I wouldn't have to worry about them come my next show, unpacked all my things from the last show, and completely reorganized my locker. I cleaned just about everything I own at the barn from my saddle to the Tupperware I keep Esso's sugar cubes in.

As I was walking back from the washing machine to the tack room, my bright whites under my arm, I passed my trainer. She cracked a grin when she saw me and asked, "Feels good to be prepared, doesn't it?" And it really did.