A while back – I’m really behind on my posting! – Olivia mentioned a semi-local tack sale.  Inexpensive tack?  Blogger meetup?  Sure, I can go for that.  Especially when I wasn’t actually riding.  My current wishlist is so small and limited (“Haflinger-sized, neon pink, endurance/dressage tack not already in my possession”) that I’m pretty good about not spending lots of money.

I started off by assessing their saddlepad collection.  Lots of dressage pads.  None in pink.  One nice endurance pad (though I can’t remember the brand) that I almost would have bought, but the wrong shape for my dressage saddle.  Two woolback pads – one dressage, one big endurance.  I already have an endurance pad, so I snagged the dressage pad for $3 or so.  Plus, the endurance pad was $10.  I do not need four woolbacks.. I do not need four woolbacks.. I do not need four woolbacks.

Eventually Olivia pointed me to the dressage girths.  A tiny mohair girth!  Two other small dressage girths!  I might as well get the mohair girth – why not play with it?! – and it seemed silly to take three dressage girths, but even sillier to put back a $1 dressage girth.  Three dressage girths it is.

Good sale.  100% recommend.

About that dressage woolback, though?  I should have picked up the other one too.

Problem, anyone?

Mohair girth on the ground because it was so clearly not worth girthing up.  Never before has she been so dwarfed by a pad.  It’s not a dressage pad.. it’s an Australian pad.

Lesson learned.  When even slightly in doubt, buy the other Woolback.  One always needs four woolbacks.