Insomnia and Stupid Evil Farriers!

So unfortunately for me, I haven't been able to get to sleep till around 12:00 each night (or should I say morning), and when I do I wake up every hour or so.  Life sucks.  By the time I actually do get to sleep for more than 45 minutes, my 5:55 alarm clock wakes me up.  It proceeds to promptly be turned off and reset for 7:07.  Yes, I'm OCD about those things ;)  However, I don't think Arty minds too much.  Stupid-evil-ferrier-who-doesn't-know-how-to-do-barefoot-horses-and-only-does-standardbreds-with-shoes trimmed Arty's feet WAY too short again.  Like frog-on-the-ground way too short.  I suppose its time to invest in a better ferrier.  More expenses on me!  I practically pay this pony's board.  Oh, the price of love.  We're going to look @ a boarding barn, 12 (google maps ETA) minutes away from my house.  I'll report back, and explain why we're looking later.
Cheers,
Kate

Fuzzy ponies who like masquerading as paints.

Hi!  Got any mints?

 

Look at how Fuzzy I am.  Good for burying cold hands in.

 And I'm a Paint!  Aren't you proud?

Jumping Lesson

So Bailey and I had our first jumping lesson in a long time yesterday.  It was a lot of fun, but we both need some work.  After warming up, a 3' oxer was set up on one side, and a 2'6 (i don't know about that one...) vertical on the other.  We started off to the left... and failed.  Bailey's max height is about 3', so I think we had this unanimous unspoken agreement that if one of us did something wrong, the other would jump well and vice versa.  Anyhow, we switched to the right withthe intention of just leaving the oxer, and ending on a good note, when he found some long lost energy store.  Thankfully our best jump of the day (over the oxer) was caught on video!  Yikes... my position needs some work.  To my credit, it was the first time I'd jumped in well over a month and a half.  Plus, I was concentrating mostly on actually getting Bales over.  Ah well, it was fun!

Ouch

I'm incredibly sore tonight, and its only going to get worse.  On Thursday night, I had yoga.  I'd missed the past 2 classes, and apparently it had been agreed upon that we'd have a medium-spicy session on Thursday.  I'm generally the person that asks to do a mild session.... so by the end of it my core was killing me!  The area right below where your ribs meet (I think its the end of the sternum...) was on fire.  However, I did get a bit of a kick out of the session, because the yoga teacher kept saying 'just one more!' when everyone was dying, and that's something my coach is renowned for.  I got another full dose of 'just one more's tonight.  Bailey was really resistant and stiff to the right.  Totally supple to the left, but we worked through it.  We also practiced training test 1.  I hate how something so simple to read can be so hard to exact!  well... i suppose its easy enough to do, its just hard to do well.  Mehh, evil dressage people.  Give me a break, higher dressage powers!  Actually, that's exactly what's about to happen as tomorrow's our long awaited jumping lesson (I hope).  I swear I'll get on those videos... eventually.
Cheers!

An Eventful Night

So last night I was heading out to the barn late, with my mother in tow.  Actually, she was driving.  Unfortunately.  She missed the turn off to the barn, and spent 45 minutes lost, and trying to find our way back to the barn.  Add that to the normal 30 minutes it takes to get there.  Anyhow, we finally made it... very late... so I tacked up quickly for a short ride.  It was around 9:15 when I got on, so we decided to just have some fun with the time we had left.  We did our usual routine to start off with, and just after we`d finished cantering to the right, the lights in the arena went out!  Bales got scared, but let me dismount and head over to the light switch to turn it off. (the lights were off, the switch was still on)  I hand walked him around the  arena, trying the light switch after every lap and finally, 15 minutes later, there was light!  Yay!  I have some vids to post, but currently they`re all around 4 minutes.... so I think I`ll edit them first!