Why blog when you have nothing to say? Yep. What’s going on in these parts of the woods? Nadda.

When I last left off, Nay Nay was on steroids and high on life. Then it was time to come off and his world came crashing down. Very, very down. You see, after 2.5 months, getting off steroids is hard. I struggle after 10 days. And he was on capsules versus tablets so tapering was even rougher. In fact, so rough that even though I’m pretty sure I started the process around the first of October, today, October 25, he is back on a full dose while I wait for a new bottle of prednisolone tablets to come in. The vet office was out of the super large bottle and at this point? Why not keep him on a his capsules rather than getting a tiny bottle while we wait.

You see, we tried to go every other day on the capsules (twice) and both times he does fine until we hit day 6 and his world unravels. He’s now also getting ulcer meds because life is ROUGH. In fact, Sunday night as he was melting down in a steroid-withdrawn rage, he reared, slipped, and fell on the ground. I may or may not have laughed at him in between calling him a bunch of names I’m not repeating here. So yeah. He’s unhappy and uncomfortable. This freaking sucks. I’ll have 500 tablets to HOPEFULLY get him off… Maybe. Or I’ll renew.

In other news, whenever we do go back to work? We’re planning a discipline change. We’re going to try some dressage and see where it takes us. I’ve been thinking for a while and after lots of conversations with lots of people during the Maryland 5*, I think I feel good in this choice. I have some trainers to try and some new arenas to haul out to (howdy public riding facilities I knew nothing about…). So once we settle a bit, we’re going to go to clicker training ground work bootcamp and then maybe, MAYBE I’ll sit on my horse again. We’re also going to clear out a path in the woods so I can at least have a short loop to walk and trot through once I’m ready. I rode Batt back there all the time. And even Subi. Just got over grown and there are some fallen trees that need cutting up… But, I’m hoping I can eventually sit on Nay again. His brain needs work.

Other than that? Jiminy is doing well. His inhaler really helped and he’s back to normal. I put 5 days and 45 volunteer hours into Fair Hill this year for the 5* working in stabling and the Young Event Horse and I’m still exhausted. I have almost no photos to show of my time, but whatever. Hope everyone is doing well!