Winter Music

  Yahoo!! We finally got to pop over some cross country fences!! We have all our shoes... we are sound... and it's not a gabillion degrees out!   I had a cancellation for this morning and opted to not fill it. So that meant I could ride! Since yesterday was stupidly mean temperature and humidity wise, I didn't get to ride Lyric. So, today she got to go play! I debated taking her to Ashland vs riding at home and maybe being able to sneak two in, but... I decided that I wanted to go do XC. Even though I forgot that we're schooling on Saturday, but... still! I wanted to play. I was trying to be good and asked Caroline if she wanted to join me. She said yes, so yay!!! Except then her son was complaining about his hurt foot so she had to take him to the doctors. Poor kid ended up having a broken foot. So then I double debated riding at home, but then Sharon texted and said that her hair appt got cancelled so she could ride. Yay! So I decided to go to Ashland after all. But then ...

Poor Lyric. She still looked a little foot sore this morning. I ended up giving her a gram of bute with breakfast. I went to get her later this afternoon for our ride and they were all in the far corner. She must have been licking the red clay because she was wearing some serious lipstick! Ha ha.. Girl! What is happening!!? Hee hee. Weirdo.    (her little spit bubble!) Since we were right by the arena, I decided to take her in and lunge her to make sure she was sound. And she was. She was a bit sluggish and mincy, but.. she kind of always is on the lunge unless you chase her. I debating just lunging her for the day but since she was so sluggish, I thought... nah, let's ride. Then I can at least feel if she's still sore or just wanting to not stride out. We walked back and tacked up and then I hopped on at the round pen and we headed up to the arena.    Dan came cantering up and got Lyric amped up so she tried to buck and take off. No ma'am!! She gave a few head shake...

 vidoes of her drooling and enjoying her fan awaiting dinner 7-26

  Sigh... I know, I know... minor inconveniences... first world problems... but GRRRRRRR!!! First, I started my period again, which... I had it a week ago.. at the beach, mind you. Then... I've still only got one horse to ride because Dan is recovering from injections (and lost a shoe this morning) and Funny is missing a shoe. But, that's okay.. I will take Lyric to Ashland and ride with Sharon and then pop over some XC fences and then come home and go to the lake with Mike. I'm making lemonade out of lemons. (But I still had a short pity party).    And it was a really pretty morning. It was a bit overcast but it burned off and it wasn't quite as sweltering and there was a nice breeze. And it was actually slightly cooling, vs just blowing hot humid air on us. So yay for that. We got to Ashland and I talked to Sharon about my tack woes with Dan. We played around a bit with which headstall should go with which bosal and what shirt matches my cinch vs my breastcollar in ho...

Today was a day... I'm all in my head today. Or maybe the devils' trying to get in my head. I don't know. I slept in a little. Mike went to ride his motorcyle and was gone all day. So maybe I'm a little bit annoyed that I only have one horse to ride. Luckily Funny seems pretty comfy without her shoe, so hopefully she won't abscess. Her bandage is still intact. :) Dan seems to be behaving for his "rest" after his injection. He's been grazing or standing around all day. Just walking or standing. But yeah... only one horse to ride after being gone for a week and then working and I have the whole day free.. and next weekend I'll have my biopsy on Thurdsay so who knows if I'll feel up to riding. And by then, Mike will want to hang out again. So yeah.. a little cranky about that. But it's also so stinking hot! And humid. Actually, today was a little overcast and gloomy so it was much cooler, but the humidity was unreal. Excessive. Oppressive. Rid...

Whoo hoo!! Lyric and I had an awesome jump lesson today. Well, it started a little rusty but we finished great! Especially since she's had a week off!   I probably should have taken Funny instead... or ridden her yesterday, but... alas. It is what it is and she did great. She's had the week off while we were at the beach but today was lesson day, so... we jumped. Luckily Laura had just gotten back on Smarty after his neck injections so the plan was to take it kind of easy. Plus it was miserably hot and humid again, so we took it easier because of that. Supposedly. ;)  I got on and walked around a bit and Lyric was a slug. We picked up the trot and she was not mincy and "navicular" but she was just... lazy feeling. She was in heat and wanted to stand next to Smarty the whole time, so that didn't help. I had her trot for a bit and then finally got her to stretch some. And then she started moving more freely. So then I put her together on a shorter rein and she felt ...