no tricks, just treats

Happy Halloween everybody!!! Hope you're dressing up and eating candy and possibly scaring the bejesus out of some kiddos and/or bewildered pets!!!

not sure it beats the horse mask with isabel, but we'll take it <3

Obviously Charlie and I partook of some festivities too -- obviously haha. And while it's not necessarily our most original or creative effort, it was fun reprising our butterfly wings from the hunter pace at Tranquillity last month.

we needed the wings to help us stay afloat above all that mud omg

Naturally, I'm talking about the final Combined Test of Thornridge's series -- timed to coincide with the holiday and absolutely stuffed to the gills with adorably costumed kiddos and their fluffy fat ponies. Legitimately am sorry that I didn't take more photos of the cuteness, but you'll have to be satisfied with these teaser pics of Charlie instead ;) 

oh hey lookieeee -- a very special treat to end the series!!
(yea yea, only a class of one, but we #earnedit anyway -- more to come!!)

Because omg Charlie was so so SO GOOD!! What a star!! Sure, our pretty blue ribbon is more of a participation prize than anything else -- nobody else entered the novice CT, so I only had to stay on the horse and survive LOL.... 

But eh, we did better than that anyway -- a personal best dressage score (if you ignore Plantation in 2018, which was always a weird outlier) and a very careful steady show jump round in what was basically a mud pit of despair. 

running into fall like....

More on all that later, tho. For now, it's Spooky Season around these parts -- finally starting to feel properly fall-ish haha, complete with appropriately frisky ponies. 

ah yes, did somebody say fall friskies?? 

And while it felt like September and October flew past in a blur, I'm actually feeling pretty excited about November. Not sure exactly what's next for us -- probably finished with proper competitions for the season, tho we may do other fun stuff (hopefully lol). We'll see I guess. 

In the meantime, we're having a little Halloween pizza + trailer cleaning party (heavy on the cleaning part LOL) at the barn today, and will hopefully be eating lots of candy while we're at it. Anybody else dressing up the ponies and or doing barn festivities?