horsegirltv® adventures with angelea

I recently auctioned my Dehner dress boots online in support of the Wounded Warrior Project. The idea was simple, auction the boots, take the winning money and write a check to WWP! What happened was far more than I envisioned.

With a failing economy, I didn’t expect the boots to fetch a large sum but something was better than nothing. Long story short, the auction closed, the boots sold, even without huge expectations I was bummed they came in so low. I emailed the winner and through our correspondences discovered she is serving in the US Army and she is currently deployed to Afghanistan! Woah! That way hit home for me!

That was only the tip of the iceberg, the winner (Diane) said she’d expected to pay much more for them and wanted to know if I was ok with her offering more. I was honored and needless to say, quite emotional at her generosity. Here I was thinking I was going to do a little good for a great project and the person truly giving back just so happened to be a service member already giving so much!

I could go on and on about this and how special the whole thing turned out to be but bottom line the person to thank on many levels is Diane (pictured below IN Afghanistan).

It’s with tear-filled eyes I type a sincere thank you to Diane for such a generous winning bid on my Dehner dress boots. I thank you too for your service!

The auction inspired a few more folks not in need of dress boots that have pledged to send in checks and I hope to ultimately donate a little under $500 to WWP!

We sponsored the Open Working Hunter Derby at the Oktoberfest Horse Show in Auburn recently and they were kind enough to send us the results today. Yah!

#9 HORSEGIRLTV.COM OPEN WORKING HUNTER DERBY
Horse, Rider, Owner
1 Fashionable, Justine Krieg, Justine Krieg
2 Cooper, Carleen Matson, Lee Dennie
3 Wavelength, Simran Singh, Molly Brebner (HOLLER FOR THE EVF RIDER!)
4 Moon County, Kylie Covington, Kylie Covington
5 Summer Love, Guin Becker, Guin Becker
6 Nifty Dan, Kyla Barr, Stephanie Osmond
7 Smitty, Susan Brotherwood, Lee Dennie
8 Fine Design, Sarah Selvar, Sarah Selvar
R Cahuna, Alicia Worley, Alicia Worley

Here’s Justine and Fashionable AND Tia and Miss Vivienne too!

Thanks to Tia and Vivienne for sporting and looks too cute in the HorseGirlTV tees! EVF rocks!

HorseGirlTV is again featured on iTunes Sports & Rec: Outdoor. This time we’ve moved up to #9 in the Video Podcasts section but have also received the coveted spot of #13 (both out of 15) for the ALL Podcasts category! It’s just continuing to explode and is just to dang cool! Yee-haw!

Here’s the Video Podcast Features:

Here’s the ALL Podcasts Features:

HorseGirlTV is making a pretty strong name for itself. I just received an email from a fan who was wearing her HorseGirlTV t-shirt at a hunter/jumper show in the Pacific Northwest this past weekend and while riding around on her golf cart someone saw her tee and commented “Horsegirltv, I watch it all the time.” which to hear this is just too much fun and too flattering to me!

About a month ago some other HorseGirlTV fans were donning their t-shirts at the Wild Horse Expo out west. The mom and daughter pair were lucky enough to chat with horseman, Tommy Turvey, and talk about training. They emailed to tell me how awesome Tommy was and how down home and friendly he was and willing to simply chat with them. They also included this picture of them with Tommy while wearing their HorseGirlTV tees! Thanks ladies!!!!! This is simply fabulous!