What another beautiful weekend. Spent the week looking for toys for the Fix and Arse at the farm. They've been taking their feedtub and carrying it off to all different locations of their pen. Bought two equi balls. one is lime green and apple flavoured and the other is bright blue with no flavouring. Well threw both of them in and Eurus (Arse) started right away checking it out. Licked it, kicked at it, rolled it around and then finally grabbed the handle and tossed it. Well what fun. Then his buddy Phoenix (Fix) thought he would check it out. You could just tell by the look on his face that he was thinking, It's okay but I'm a stud and it's beneath me to play with such things. Of course, once we got the camera out, they both decided to ignore the balls completely. My family thought I was crazy, buying these but hey if it keeps him occupied and the feed tub stays stationery, then I think I got my monies worth. Worked with my filly, Arctic Frosted Pepsi, Peps for short. Just doing groundwork and getting her used to work again. Worked with her on givng to the bit, bending and moving away from pressure. She was so good, I still can't figure out what went wrong in October. My daughter Angela, (oakleydvm2012) will be getting on her hopefully when she is home for reading week the end of February and we'll see how she goes. Peps is so gentle and good natured, it's hard to imagine how or why things went south. Oh well if we could read their minds, we'd all be experts at talking horse.
On another subject, Sherry (fern valley o1) mentioned to me some time ago about a book one of her bloggers suggested she should read on the Ghost Wind Stallions, (history of the leopard appaloosa) After some lengthy searching on the internet, found a single copy, slightly used from a fellow in the states, only trouble was he doesn't ship to Canada. so long story short, I have a brother living in Texas whom I had the book sent to and he forwarded it to me. Well I had a slow day at the office on Friday and got so enthralled with this book, was late leaving for the day. It is an amazing story of both horse and man and the trials and hardships they faced. Need to do some more searching to see if this line of appaloosa still exists. The last two known stallions both died without knowing whether they produced true Ghost Wind offspring. If any one knows of these horses, let me know. There is a museum in Michigan, the Ghost Wind Museum that I am going to check out. C'ing spots appaloosas picture of Harley looks very close to some of the pictures in the book. Must contact her.
Didn't ride again this weekend as we were busy yesterday with helping with chores etc; got a wonderful bath of trouth water mixed with sludge, but hey its only water and when I showed up today, both Sherry and Martin were off helping with a calving that went wrong so just worked my filly. Saw Blue and his buddies though and gave them cookies.
The rest of my life (other than my family) is too complex, aggrevating and not worth talking about and it is so nice to have my horses to recharge my batteries and make everything else barable.
Clearing the air
6 months ago
7 comments:
Sorry about the bath ,I thought you might not have noticed. Peps is a baby Deb, she just had a baby moment ,try not to overthink it or you will worry yourself silly. She is half a year older and will be even more settled in her mind when you are ready to start again.She is not by any means "dirty" so hang in there you and Angela will do great work with her!
Dido to Aunty Sherry, there is nothing wrong with Pepsi,you just cant expect ababy to be an old campaigner from day 1
My stallion loves to play with toys. If you throw him a stick, he will pick it up and throw it over te fence and stand there and bat his eyes at you until you throw it back in for him; he could do that all day! I just bought him a jolly ball.
Hellooo? I know you are alive I just talked to you the other day. Where are the new posts?
I was just looking at a couple of shots from the past few years, and I think I have found part of the problem. Look at the photo of you and Shiroc at the lake , your back must have been bugging you more than you said because that phot clearly shows you in a kind of "couch seat" Now I know you didn't used to sit like that ,but I wonder if you were onconciously compensating for low back stuff . It shows some not as severe in one of the shots on Peps and you had commented that your balance felt off. Anyhow the day you rode Blue you were bang on so it might have resolved but I am wondering if that played a role in your wipe out (as she jumped ahead it would have rocked you way back from an already off centre position ) Not trying to piss you off just hadn't really looked before.
Hey FV if forever best friends can give each other constructive criticism when they need it, then we're not really friends. I appreciate you looking. I know something was off this past year and even I have been scrutinizing every picture I can. Since I've hurt my back from the fall, the last two rides have been amazing. Even Blue has changed. I am actually looking forward to getting on Peps again real soon. Thanks my best bud. Also thanks for not getting postal over Peps escape. She's just keeping you on your toes.
Meant to say can't give each other not Can give each other. Really should preview before I post.
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