Sunday 22 April 2018

Spring Came

This week in the life was marked by the arrival of spring (finally!), a new to us dressage saddle to try, a massive tack clean up, a good pony, and a not so good pony. Oh, and some self improvement.

Spring! Some tulips even escaped our resident deer! :)

There  was an eBay saga last week where I found what I thought was the perfect saddle, but eBay would not let the seller mark it as sold nor could they give me a receipt for the payment! So weird. After much time chatting to the help desk, it was decided it was a computer glitch and they needed to refund my money and relist the saddle. At which point someone else "Bought it now". Arghhh.


I panicked and found a different saddle that was a bit more of a shot in the dark and had that shipped out for  trial. It's a wide tree Jeffries in lovely shape. I don't overly like it for me, and it's actually a bit too wide for B, but the price was right, and it's a better fit for both of us than the County it's replacing. I'm going to keep it and use shims so that I at least have a saddle to ride in while we look for the unicorn saddle we both like. I hate saddle shopping! B's topline has kind of suffered for my lack of work the past month, so there's at least hope the new saddle will fit as she bulks back up.

I've been having awful rides on Ms Bridget. She's so braced and argumentative I think I may get the vet involved just to be sure she'. Just bring a grump. The latest development was to be REALLY barn sour...sucking back, then rearing and bucking when pushed to leave the property. So incredibly rude! We fixed it, obviously, but I'm like "really?! are we really discussing this again? Is this going to be an annual thing forever?"

Unimpressed mare

I'm a little at my wits end with her rudeness of late...so yesterday she went for a visit to the round pen to reestablish some manners. The great thing about the Bridgets of the world is they're super awful and badass for about 10 minutes cantering, max, then it's just too exhausting and manners miraculously reinstall to their brains.

Sovie/Sophie had an easy week, although there was a little drama. Her brain also uninstalled temporarily this week. I took Bridget away, and I guess she LOVES her, even though Bridget is awful to her in return. Luckily she's a smart cookie and just as I was vowing to sell her (OMG screaming drives me nuts, but hers is the worst I've heard - so high pitched and shrill!) her brain returned (as did peace to the entire neighbourhood.)
Some adorable mini floof...remember our buddy Lily? She and Sophie sound pretty much the same, Sophie is just 10x louder, lol

Besides the one baby horse moment, she's been her normal curious and sweet self. She's out in her summer field now that spring is here, but she still comes running to say hi, and "helps" me groom her by showing me all the itchy places.

On the personal improvement side, I bought this audiobook and am loving it so far. I listen to it on my lunch time walk/runs:


And, after a crazy allergic reaction earlier in the week, my diet for the next 3 weeks gets to be even more restricted than I had originally planned. Not quite how I wanted to lose weight...but...winning?!

Finally, I did a major spring tack clean up. This is just part of it, I have so much to sell, lol.
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  1. Yay it's now spring here too.... After an ice storm last week. Excited to see a post on this new saddle.
    Bad manners drive me bonkers I so agree

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  2. Spring here too finally! OH BRIDGET BEHAVE (Said in Austin Powers voice)! Sorry about the saddle woes hope the one you found will work for now. And i am so glad you have better weather now! OH no on allergy reaction hope all is okay!

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    1. All is fine. But yeah, BEHAVE, BRIDGET :)

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  3. OMG that's so frustrating about the eBay stuff! And Bridget. Jeesh. Enough already! The book sounds really good though - I'm going to put it on my list to read.

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    1. I feel sometimes like all the little annoying roadblocks come in waves! I do recommend the book...it's got some good content, but still makes me lol every once in a while.

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  4. Ooohhh screaming is the worst! Sorry about the saddle...I hope you this is the one and further shopping isn't needed!

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    1. Please no more shopping! (or screaming!)

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  5. good luck figuring out what's up with B. charlie can get really nappy and resistant and argumentative too, and it's usually when something is bugging him. hopefully there's a simple answer! charlie's a pansy about girths and that's a relatively easy fix, so that's where i usually start. sometimes tho it really is saddle fit and... that's just the pits :(

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    1. She's grumpy even on the ground and I really feel like it's a 'don't wanna do what you tell me' thing, but we'll get her looked at just in case. Mares :)

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  6. I hope you can figure out Bridget, I hate stuff like that. Hopefully it's just the weather and nothing more. Screaming drives me crazy. When we were out on the trail ride on Saturday, evidently Subi screamed non-stop the entire time we were gone... But, at least I wasn't around to hear it? Sorry Erik... Mostly though, my horses aren't much talkers. Hope you're doing better and that you haven't had to cut out too many food groups. That's no fun... I unfortunately know. (Since wordpress doesn't like this computer and I think I connected my account to the wrong blog which doesn't have anything, reposting this comment so it'll at least have the right name attached... blogger and wordpress both hate me today)

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    1. Ohhh, sorry on the food allergy thing. I'm adapting, and am hopeful to be able to add some of the things back in eventually. (Fingers crossed SO HARD the culprit is not something I love)

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  7. Blarg. I'm sorry things aren't fun right now. It can be tough when the ponies just don't want to play. Spud went through a rearing phase (granted, he was also under harness so I didn't have to ride that crap), and I really hated him for a good year lol.

    Also - loving the mini-photo inclusion. So friggen cute haha.

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    1. I'm so glad her idea of rearing is just popping up a teeny bit and it's more designed to avoid going forward than to actually hurt anyone (on a related note - her collected trot is quite elevated when she's a little reluctant to move out, so there's that at least...moving up and bigger isn't a problem, it's the forward that we sometimes lack)

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  8. I'm so glad I'm not the only one that wants to slap a for sale on their horse for screaming. :P

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    1. Can't stand it. I think I mentioned I was so annoyed with the last one I owned that did that that she eventually started making this strangled sounding whinny/muttering noise at super low volume instead...ha ha, apparently there is a decibel threshold they can not exceed around me :)

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  9. Spring Sillies usually require a reboot of the brain or two lol

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