I haven’t blogged for awhile. I keep meaning to and then I just…don’t want to. Life and work has been getting me down and I just haven’t been up to it? Life’s got me down for no real good reason.
The horses? They’re doing OK. Jiminy has decided to get all heaves-y on me so that’s fun. I have him on zyrtec plus leftover ventipulmin as needed. It’s fine. I should start steaming his night hay but the issue is he doesn’t necessarily eat a full flake if it’s in a net so I don’t really know how much to steam. If it’s not in a net, he’ll eat too much. Dilemmas. So I do nothing.
Subi. Subi is currently feral. Some days he’s dead quiet and others he’s a wild maniac. So typical Subi. He’s also grown a coat for the first time ever so there is that?
And Nay Nay. We’ve been alternating really good rides and less than great rides. He does better when he’s ridden a lot. I’m just trying to find the right balance. We had a fabulous lesson the other week where he pretty much grew up.
And the proceeded to have crappy rides every day after.
It’s not that they were bad. They weren’t. They just weren’t… good. They were fine. But I’m struggling to find the balance between forward and quiet, slow and dead, and spooky and stupid. Most of the time he’s been slow, dead, and stupid. But not actually dead or slow? I guess what I need to do is suck it up, get after him, and find the forward button?
I’m not exactly sure what’s going on. He’s fine. He’s not doing anything. But some days? Work is sort of, kind of optional. And then I struggle to keep him moving forward and we end up with this behind the leg crappy canter that I just can’t ride. And, instead of smacking him with the crop and saying knock it off you fool, I just sit there and don’t do anything? I don’t know. User error.
The far end of the ring has become spooky town for us (read: me). And well, that’s not helping. I mean, we’re fine. And Nay doesn’t do anything. Other than the weekend before our lovely lesson when neither of us were feeling it (and I was almost dumped 3x). But besides that day? He’s done nothing to make me nervous so who the heck knows.
So that’s where we’re at. Lesson tomorrow. We’ll see how we do.
Three Chestnuts 
I too find spooky areas that bug me in arenas. Even the other nite i rode in the ring with the lights for the first time since being at the barn. I didnt like it. the lights were great at one end the other end was dark (read spooky) and both Remus and me had issues.
I too am not feeling the blogging right now. I feel like i am boring and what is the point.. I am glad Nay overall is doing well and let’s just think, the shortest day will be here soon and it will start staying light longer. I am not a winter person and neither are you š HA and JIMINY is the cutest š
I too a, feeling a lack of desire to write. But things have been stressful at work and when Iām home Iām just tired. I also have been having great rides and blah rides. But I keep on keeping on.
Pretty much this x1000. Winter (or mild weather winter) just makes things a lot harder.