Winter Music

 went to CE with Sharon today since Ashland was a zoo ;) Full of aliens and bees and minions. ;) Spooked at toilet paper. good with the gunshots. fun. rode in jump saddle. felt sound but only trotted straight lines. but much more marchy in the walk even

  Today was farrier day and lunge day.  I told Patrick all that was going on and that I had no idea what her problem was. I showed him the photo of her standing over the trough. And then we had pulled her shoes by then and were discussing whether we wanted the pads again or what and I was explaining that I thought that she needed wedges because of the NPA but that I also felt like she was potbellied looking and stuck in flexion. And that the wedges were maybe making her more in flexion... so I was trying to show him how I wanted her back to look and she shifted and stood square (barefoot on all four) and suddenly we both looked at each other and were like "Like that?!"... So.. hmmm... okay... then I grabbed my angled wedge surefoot pad and stood her on it, and her posture got worse again. So... we decided to go back to flat pads with frog support but Patrick was going to trim her toe as much as he could to eliminate the negative angle without a wedge.  So.. we'll see what...

 photos: 10-25 post shockwave also noticed not chewing on the chest bar 

  Well poo. Lyric is still lame, even with previcox on board now. I didn't ride yesterday because I spent the day unloading 317 bales of hay. So.. today, it rained this morning but then cleared up. So I grabbed a pony and we headed to Ashland. Lyric volunteered, so.... she got to go.    I put the back on track on for the trip there although it was starting to get sunny and warm. We tacked up and headed to the trails. We did some hills today. And we trotted and even had a nice long canter/gallop on the gallop track. Not the best choice in the dressage saddle with extra long stirrups. Ha ha. But we were fine. She felt very resistant to bending left at all today, even on the trails. And she maybe felt a little mincy overall. She tripped/stumbled a few times too. But we had a nice ride and mostly she was fine. She even walked over the creek without hesitating.  We ended up doing a little work in the arena when we were done hacking. And... she definitly feels lame trackin...

  I don't know if i'm losing my mind....  Lyric is sound.... yet.... I'm starting to really worry. Her topline isn't looking as good. She's starting to get some atrophy in her trapezius and also along her longissimus. She's doing that thing where she's sitting on the wall again... and the other day she sat on the wall, pushed into it, then bit at the wall. And then I noticed that on the last trailer ride, she was biting at the chest bar repeatedly and then licking and chewing. And then today... I saw her straddling the water trough. (which.. is extra weird because it's not tall enough for her to sit on). And she still looks almost pot bellied to me. Then, you combine all that with her exaggerated right front foreward grazing stance... and her inability to bend around my left leg... the fact that you can't pull her left leg in front of her right front to get her to stand/graze and instead have to push her right front back... really is making me start ...