Winter Music

Thank You God for sunshine, smiles, and hope restored! Worked Lyric today. Did pillars and turn on haunches and forehand in arena. She's a pro now. Then lunged over trot poles. She is terrible at them! Either... just a complete clutz with no clue, or neurologic. Tripped and scrambled and rolled her ankle. But then also fine when she hits it just right.  Then lunged the second set of 5 minutes in the pasture. Lazy. But then second direction she took off and got loose and galloped back to the others. Let me catch her easily and we went back to lunging. She tried to squirt off again but I held her and she clipped her coronary band on her left hind... held it up in the air for a bit. But then sound... just stung herself. Well, more than stung... she sliced it pretty good and it bled a fair amount. But stayed sound.  Went back to arena and made reins with the leadrope and hopped on. A bit nervous but not too bad and no rooting or lip thing. Walked around and gave her a few cookies....

 took to arena and did pillar work and thoracic sling exercises.  lunged 5 minutes each way in the arena. Sluggish again today but got better as she got moving. lunged over the raised pole once or twice at the trot and a few times at the walk.  then moved to pasture (risky as the other horses were out... only funny interfered, but just got in the middle of the circle at one point and then was sort of in our path but it was fine). Lyric was good.. didn't get stupid... did canter a few steps once but not bad. tripped a time or two. I think she was tired. But sounder, so.. yay.

 Rode Dan and then she was so close I just grabbed her with his bridle and turned him loose.  did pillars and in hand work.. then lunged with bridle. Fussy and rooty and unhappy. Seemed less footsore, but maybe a hair lame. But so rooty. when she settled looked sound...  hopped on bareback with bareback pad. rooting and unhappy. Trotted left.... rooting, pissed, fussy, inverted, hollow. Tried to see if I could ride through it but she was so miserable i just got off and cried

First lunge since her shoulder/scapula injections.  Super windy. took to the barn to groom... nervous, especially since other horses were in the dog pasture again. But didn't cross tie.. just held. fed cookies and groomed. No major issues, just nervous. then did pillar work and thoracic sling work. lunged. started out sounder and more willing and more forward in general. But tracking left she wants to counterbend hard and is more braced.. but got her going soft and round and lifting her back a good bit. yay. releasing with that.  silly girl in the pasture with the wind. Seems to be feeling better, but still on bute.

 Lunged: started out pretty well and forward and happy. a few snark faces at me. Tried to change directions on me but did it both ways so..  got a little more braced when she was jogging with me. but would soften and relax in the slower tempo. But at least the slower tempo today looked relaxed instead of stabby.  debated lunging in field but didn't because of rain and laziness on my part.  After lunged, put the bridle on and got on bareback. Immediately started rooting and doing her lip wiggles. got on... still felt sound at the walk but definitely not as happy as the other day. Picked up the trot and definitely lame... can't tell where. worse tracking right still. but not as lame as with the saddle the other day. (Saddle? Previcox? ).  turned her out for a bit and then later caught her for her shoulder girdle injections. was good and drunk. until I got to her scapular edge.. then very fussy and reactive. especially right trap insertion. fascially tight there, l...

Lyric and I lunged again today. I should have done her in the pasture but we did the arena because they are all back out in the big field again and... just easier to avoid shenanigans. We did our thoracic sling work and pillar work and then we lunged. She started out more forward but definitely is much more forward and swinging when I jog with her. Which.... I don't think it's the straighter lines... I don't know if it's just encouragement/laziness/racemode engaged?? Even when I swoosh the whip at her, she won't stay in the forward trot on the lunge line, but when I run with her... she stays extended. Weird. But... who knows? Maybe it is the circles vs straighter lines. I am sore though in my thighs so I was only able to do 5 minutes of jogging with her today. Oh.. that's not true... I did drop my phone out of my fanny pack (Ha ha...) so I might have actually ran a bit longer. We also did some leg yielding at the trot in hand too. She's definitely straighter...