Blue Moon Rising

07/10/2025

Luna! Our schoolmasters rock! 😎🤩🩵🐴

A Goal... with Distinction 🏅

"I have a beautiful draft mare I use for dressage lessons. The blessings of having a schoolmaster(s) is a story for another time. I decided it was time to take Luna to a show at the prestigious age of 21 and see if she still had what it takes. And maybe, I could earn a distinction score over 67%. We did!"

In this quick read, a rider from USDF Region 6 shares her ongoing journey to checking each USDF Rider Medal off her list!

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05/10/2025

05/10/2025

Day 3!!

Sophia came in 5th out of 10. Nice job!!!

Shelby, Elli and Jess had great training experiences 🥰

Mr Cash and I had another good ride working in the right direction. Excited for winter training 💪🏻🩵

One more day… look for the last update 😎

04/10/2025

Day 2 at USDF Region 6 Championships at DevonWood and we are having a blast! Thank you to our wonderful hosts and fantastic show management the ladies of Blue Moon Rising are truly having a super time 🤩

Jess Yost had a great lesson with Jennifer Kotylo in preparation for her Training level Championship ride and Dressage Seat Medal classes this weekend.

Elli Guy had a great ride holding her horse Kia accountable both in and out of the show ring 💪🏻

Sophia and Shelby had great training/showing opportunities in anticipation of Championship rides this weekend.

Helena Rouhe Beat had a great ride holding Mr Johnny Cash accountable in the dressage court! No more thieving behaviors allowed 😎 Chest up and waiting for the ask instead of thinking he has it all figured out. 😉

We wrapped with a hilarious team photo shoot in front of the Championship banner and a great competitors’ party! Thank you Noah Rattner for your tireless support to USDF and Region 6 Dressage!!!

Go West Coast Dressage — Let’s keep this a bicoastal sport- with all the wonderful people in between too 🥰🇺🇸🐴🩵🙏

03/10/2025

Super first day!! Great family and team support 🤩🩵🐴 Jess won her class today!! Rock on Jess!

Sophia rode her second freestyle ever and received a qualifying score for 2026 championships!!!

Off to a great start! Go team!!

21/09/2025

A great day with the team!

We were blessed with beautiful weather for our annual fall gathering yesterday! We started the day with Lilly riding to the national anthem. So proud of her! She taught her horse Jessy to work with a flag 🇺🇸

We had several freestyles and awarded the most Fantastic to Sophia and Delta. This combo is just starting their freestyle journey. Super excited for their future! Elli and Kai had the most creative freestyle and Lilly had the funniest. Such great attitude from all our riders 🥰 with super audience participation this time. 🙌

I rode a demo ride mic 🎤 for this first time- hilarious moments ensued - I would have given Lilly a run for her money in the funniest category for sure 😉 The best part about riding to music is enjoying the creativity and joy of it all 🩵🐴

Then we switched gears to lawn games and a food contest. It was stiff competition this year! In the end Becky, Lilly’s mom took home the perpetual award. She will add to it with a soup ornament to commemorate the win!

A wonderful day with our friends- we look forward to seeing you all here next year 🍁🧡🍂

07/07/2025

Looking forward to another dressage show this weekend Les Bois Dressage

24/07/2024

It’s time to complete the staining project at Blue Moon Mending Farm! We will be working August 18 & 25. Starting early in the morning about 7am going until 12 or 1 pm each day depending on the heat…. So can we get some volunteers 😬

28/01/2024

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

Crazy title right?!

It’s taken from a book that inspired a short tv series designed to help people manage their stuff. Stuff ends up being both emotional and physical. The show features a team of Swedes, of course, who help people on their journey to organize space.

Building on our theme of balance, connection and harmony managing our stuff will be a recurrent underling theme.

So as I take on “the ongoing project that is the garage,” I have been reflecting on this lovely concept. Let’s break it down shall we…

Gentle - It’s so important we are gentle with ourselves when going through our stuff. Gentle means allowing ourselves time to work through our boxes (again emotional or physical), empathy to recognize emotions that might come up and fortitude to endure the process.

Art - it’s considered a beautiful or desired product and very messy while in process.

Swedish - traditionally no nonsense and flourish in clean organized space.

Death cleaning - not embalming 🫣 instead encourages us to organize our stuff so that it is honored and placed appropriately or it will just end up in the waste bin of life. In other words, be accountable with yourself or it will go to waste. This is a rather deep concept. I will attempt to tackle it throughout the year.

For now, let’s check in on how we are all doing with our projects 😊

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