🚀 go-pugleaf

I really wasn't going to post because of how much money each
posting costs, but I'm too egocentric to resist any longer!

First, everyone who has a horse boarded at a barn near a major
road should get the town to post HORSECROSSING signs.  They are
effective in slowing cars down when there is actually a horse 
around, and they are attractive and good advertisement, too.

Now:  I was born in Germany and rode there 'till I was 12, then
I rode in Greece until age 17, and have been riding in California
and Massachusetts since, being 29 years old.  It has always been
dressage for me, with bits of bareback riding, Western, and 
driving thrown in.  I've been riding school horses, leasing,
and training other people's horses, and I've worked at many
riding vacation places in summers in Europe and in the US.

I am finally an assistant professor in chemistry at Smith 
College in the middle of Massachusetts, and I've been able to
save up for my own superhorse, Lester.  Lester is a 16.2
chestnut Hannoveraner who'll be 4 in May, and who'll be doing
FEI level dressage when he grows up, if I don't ruin him on
the way.  No doubt he could also excel in show jumping or
eventing, like his mother's sire and sire, respectively.
I've had him and he's been under saddle for 7 months.
 
It's really nice to have this net and to get to know all you
people.  I do wish there were more posts from "Europe and
the World", however.

Tschuess,  Petra and Lester