Winter Music

You can't say I'm not dedicated! BRRRRRR! We had a lesson this morning and in order to be able to fit both girls in, I had to ride one at 9:30 am. And because the second one (later in the day) was with Laura, I opted to bring Lyric to this one. The windchill at 9 am was 19 degrees!! But luckily it wasn't too bad in the arena. The trees blocked a lot of the wind. I wanted to get on and give her a nice long warm up but it was too early and too cold for that. So I tacked up quick and we hacked along the edge of XC to head towards to the arena. BRRRR!! The wind out there was brutal. My ears felt like they were gonna fall off!  Once we got in the arena it was much better. I did lots of stretchy trot on the buckle to get her warmed up. She started out sluggish and bracy and lost her hind end at least 6 times. And hard! Like.. she made divots in the arena. Sadness. I picked up the canter and after that she only lost her hind end once (and that was after we went through the grid a ...

 Long hack day, galloped, 28 mph. not that fast. but felt fast! felt pretty good but did stop with LH in the air for a few seconds first starting out. much more forward and marching but forging like crazy, walk and trot today. w/t/c in xc field. no arenas today.  had to sponge her off! And like her in the memory foam girth too

Merry Christmas Lyric! She got the day off today. She was kind of hanging off by herself and just... looked like she wanted the day off. And she looks a little more "nike swoosh" in her back again. Sigh...  She did enjoy her christmas carrots and apples though! Hopefully tomorrow we can go for a trail ride and see how she feels. 

Christmas Eve!! We spent the majority of the day at Mom's with family, so when we got home I didn't have time to do much, but.. I did have time for a quick lunge for all.    I put the equiband on and we lunged. She was a good girl and sound, but still fairly short strided. I don't know how much of it is just her... or if there's something that hurts. I can chase her and run with her and she goes bigger, but... she reverts back to her western pleasure jog mode once I back off. She did reach and stretch over the raised trot poles though so that was nice! And of course, she always lunges a hair better when I'm not videoing. But I don't know... I'm still worried somethings wrong.       

  Ooof... I think I'm hormonal! I was extra sad about Flecky today. And... spiraling about the horses. I'm trying not to, but... I am. She didn't run from me when I caught her, even after I had to throw the halter at Dan because he was being an ass about the cookies. But then on the whole trailer ride to Ashland she  I rode Funny this morning and then when I got home, Mike was about to take a nap so I took the opportunity to turn back around and go back to Ashland with Lyric. I really wanted to ride her but felt like a nice hack was our best choice since we lunged yesterday and I didn't want to push her. So that's what I did.  She didn't run from me when I caught her, even after I had to throw the halter at Dan because he was being an ass about the cookies. But then on the whole trailer ride to Ashland she was biting at the chest bar and then licking and chewing. Sigh.. I don't know what that means?? It looks like a self mutilation thing...maybe it's cri...