Horseback 3/14

Today I rode my friends horse Essie. My friend has knee problems and can't ride right now so I was helping her out by ridding Essie for her. I haven't ridden in a while do to some issues with work and my crazy busy schedule, however I just recently quit my job, so i'll finally be able to focus more on ridding. My instructor and I had a conversation about what my plans for my last summer at the barn will be. I told her I do want to show this summer, so she is having me memorize tests for the shows when I am not at the barn. I will most likely be showing Rebel this summer, but today ridding Essie helped me a lot. Essie is a more experienced dressage horse and I can focus more on my own body when ridding rather than having to help the horse understand what is going on, like I do on Rebel because of his lack of experience. I rode for about an hour today and did a lot of canter work.

Destination Imagination 3/3

Destination Imagination 2/2

We have started to hold meetings and have already begun the scrip writing and set design. To the left is the beginning to a puppet we are making.

Miracle Party 2/12

I was finally able to make contact with Kathleen and come to an agreement on how to finish out the award. My girl scout group is going to produce an ad on the public service station to promote the camp. While Missy and Carley run the cameras I will be the 'talent' on stage.

Art Portfolio 01/5

http://stephfratusartportfolio.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

this is the link to the portfolio I am sending to Parsons, it does have the full versions of my figure drawings.

Art Portfolio 01/03/09

Not including the drawings from my figure drawing class, and a view other pieces, these are the pictures of my pieces that I am choosing from to send off to my schools.

Horseback 1/3/10

Today I rode Rebel and we did pole work on caveleties (which is what the picture to the left is). We would trot through the poles, and then canter directly after. This is extremely hard for the horse because it forces them to pick up their legs, and use their hind legs when pushing off into the canter. Since rebel is still being trained in dressage he is not very good at this, and it is extremely hard for him, and he does not like it very much. The beginning of my lesson started off rocky, and rebel bucked a lot, at one point he kicked the wall. Ive gotten a lot better about handling horses when they start to put up a fight during my lessons. It doesn't scare me anymore, in fact i normally laugh when it happens. After Rebel got over his issues the ride went really well. We ended the lesson with a very strong trot and canter, and it is clear that Rebel has improved his gates greatly since I first started ridding him.