Winter Music

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 ...

  Ooof, today is not cooperating!! I had a not so great ride on Funny, cut short (kind of) by the early vet arrival. So after the vet left (for the dogs and cats) and Mike and I ate, I decided to go ahead and try to ride at home. I was debating Ashland, but the weather was looking iffy on the radar. So... argh, I decided to just try to ride at home. So I grabbed Lyric and got her to the trailer. Brushed her and realized... what's your right hind shoe doing? Oh... it's twisted half off. Ugh... So I pulled it and texted Patrick. And turned her back out.  Luckily, (but also slightly inconveniently timed) Patrick texted me to tell me he'd be there in an hour to put her shoe back on today. :) Except it was when I had just gotten on Dan and walked to the XC field for a nice long hack... so, back we came. I managed to sneak in a very short ride, hose him off and get back and grab Lyric and have her ready right as Patrick backed in. Phew. ;) Luckily she was close to the barn when D...

  But it wasn't really worth it. Ha. Or successful. I don't know. It's hot.. it's humid. We're miserable. But we did ride. It just wasn't a good ride. It wasn't horrible. Maybe my expectations were just too high. Maybe I was cranky. Maybe all of the above. I was hoping that she'd feel so much better after Kim "got her hock bones moving" and flocked the saddle. But she didn't. She almost felt lame today. But she's also been off previcox. And maybe it was just a fluke. Maybe I was riding poorly. I think I got a little handsy.    I tried to take a moment and regroup. And it helped. It really wasn't a horrible ride. It just wasn't super. She was a bit more braced again and lost her hind end once. But yay for only once! It was on a change of bend too, so that's tricky. But we did have some good moments. And then we worked on our canters and transitions. And it wasn't bad. And then we finished with the trot poles with the midd...

  Today Kim came back to check Lyrics saddle. And it fits her great. She tweaked the flocking as it had settled a bit in the back and was creating mild soreness. She fluffed up the front and it doesn't feel downhill anymore. But she was super pleased with her progress. She said she looked fantastic and so much better! She did think she had filled out some because we were thinking we were going to have to narrow the saddle down for her. But we didn't. Although the extra flocking did help. But still. She said she looked more uphill. And she does! I almost think she looks a bit more narrow/roofy, but I also wonder if that's because she's lifting her thoracic sling more and her withers "popped" more. Kim agreed and said that despite her looking more narrow in the withers, she was actually wider. Yay! All the right things!  She checked the loxley jump saddle and said that it was okay but not great. The tree points were average length to long but they were angled fo...

Ok ma'am! Where is THAT canter when I ride you please???  \   They were silly. I was out bush hogging and they followed me into that pasture and then stood at the fenceline. I passed them multiple times and they wouldn't move and I eventually needed to mow close to them, so I came close. And ... shenanigans!! hee hee. Silly ponies.