Freitag, 25. November 2011

...it's getting ridiculous

OK, fine. First visit the fitter didn't bring anything for us to try. I'm already slightly annoyed because I did tell him on the phone that: one, my horse is very short, two, my horse is very wide and three, I've already tried a sommer 17,5 which turned out to be too small for me.

First visite comes and goes. No saddle for us. Today the fitter will be back. Guess what, no saddle for me to try AGAIN! He said something about breaking the one he tried to change for me. Yeah, well whatever. I know these things happen but seriously, at this point I just don't really care anymore!

It's been a month already again since I first called this particular saddle fitter and it probably will be weeks if not a whole month (remember christmas is on its way) before I can even TRY a saddle (who knows if it'll even work out for Crispin and I). This just sucks!

(Sorry, vent over) ;-)

*edited to add*

The fitter was there this morning, mainly to fit the other boarders horse and I have to say it: No matter how annoyed I am about the cirumstances the guy is really, really nice, sweet and good at what he's doing. If I'm lucky (for once) he'll be back with a saddle in a 10 days to two weeks.

Sonntag, 20. November 2011

...and yet again another saddle fitter...

I'm really having trouble keeping this blog up to date.

I've had another fitter out last saturday. He was there for Crispin and another boarders horse. The guy was really good. Probably the best fitter I've seen so far, very knowledgeable and very devoted to his favourite brand of saddles: Sommer saddles (he only sells Sommer).

He was there for almost 4 hours mostly fitting the other horse and showing us every detail (it seems) of Sommer saddles (tree, panels, stuffing, you name it).

Unfortunately, he didn't have a single saddle with him that I could try on Crispin! Bummer. He had some saddles that had the right tree/iron (sommer calls it the WKE tree, the extra wide iron, it's like a hoop tree) and othes that had the right size for my butt and others again that had the righ panels for Crispins short, short back (the "Espitkissen"). But there was no saddle that combined all three: tree, panel, size. He has to put one together for us an will be back again.

Needless to say that I was very disappointed that day! After the saddle fitter was gone I was moping around at the barn and decided that I needed to do something nice with Crispin to lighten the mood. The weather was brilliant and so I started looking for a suitable horse and rider to acompany Crispin and I on our first trail ride at the new barn. Victoria and Flint were the lucky winners. They went with us on a very short but wonderful trail ride that saved my day. Thanks again!


(this is just a random picture I took that day. I think it's going to be one of my favourits)