Fun, random pictures, becuase I cannot figure out how to work my blog!

Pics of Lu's feet after her trim. I just relized that none of these seem to be her fronts! Which are the worse ones! But although her hooves are still not quite the right angle, they are a lot better.

John Tom loves to sit and play on hay! But once Kezi came over he was outa there! He knows Kezi isn't as tolerant as Lucy is, but he still does stuff around her most cats wouldn't dream of doing! Like sitting on her food!

Miss Kezi looking pretty in the morning, and Ollie who would not move when I fed!

Widdle baby duckys!

Eli! My pretty boy!

Sunday afternoon!

Yipppy! I got to Sunday! We had a mothers day breakfast in the barn after going up to see mom and give her flowers. Loren stayed with us through breakfast. We then talked about the barn and what it need to get it going to be able to rent it out. My dad would like to rent it out for events as well as overnights.

But the really great thing is..... you haven't guessed it yet? Really though, I mean come on! What else could get me this excited!? Well ok, what else could get me this excited that I am putting in my blog!?

Riding of course!!! Now don't you feel silly! Yep I got to ride again on Sunday. It felt like so much longer then two weeks. To Lucy too!
At first it felt like she was sucking back and not wanting to move out on the road, which may be the case, she may need shoes or boots for on the road. But once we got on the trail I started asking her to move out a little bit more. Up until the Y her speed was rather sporatic. Slow then fast and so on. Although she wasn't trying to turn around a whole bunch. After the Y she really sped up and was practicly running down the trail! But in a controled kind of way, not like before when it felt like she was just trying to get down the hill as soon as possible. This was more like she just wanted to move out more quickly. Going back up the hill she broke into the trot several times, which I allowed since I like to encurage her trot. Although we were headed towards home that is rather unuall for her at any time. Her pace was good on the way back but not rushing. She didn't trip at all, and seemed to enjoy our ride. All in all I was VERY pleased!
I ment to get up and ride this morning but couldnt' pull myself out of bed, so I will ride on Wednesday as usual and try to get back to our old shedule.

But yeah! I am riding again!

Friday and Saturday

Soooo, I finally got luke out on Friday. He brought his girlfirend with him. Or I at least assume she was his girlfirend since I know he has one and can't imagine he would bring a girl along that he wasn't dating.
She came because she wanted to see the minis, which she thought were cute, but lost interest in them when the mommy duck brought her ducklings down to eat. Loren gave her some bread to feed to them and she just adored them!

Everyone behaved themselfs for trimming, except Huck. Lucy was normal as was Ollie, Kezi I think actaully fell asleep! Luke was happy that she is doing better with him! Although I did notice that after standing on her bad leg for a while while he was working on the other one, she did rest it a bit afterwards.

Luke felt that Lucy's toes were a bit long, and that her feet were growing in a bit unbalanced but wasn't too horribly bad. We did decide to schedule their next trimming soon then normal. So we will be going seven weeks inbetween. I think as long as Luke can actaully make it to this appointment then that will be perfect. If I could figure out how to post pictures in the middle of a post then I would put the pictures of Lucy's hooves here, but alas, I suck at those kinds of things!

Right, so after Luke left Loren and I got ready to go to his sisters for the night. I was supprised at how willing I was to leave the horses. My dad agreed to feed them in the morning but it ment that they would miss getting grain and suppliments and meds, but thats not the end of the world.

I won't put much down about our night at his sisters, mostly becuase there wasn't much to tell. I have never gotten along with Lorens sister that well, it probably doesn't help that my sister doesn't like her much now even though they were friends when they were younger. I didn't have too much horse withdrawl, but then we stayed up too late for me to feel much of anything! Then they gave me coffee in the morning, wow was that a bad idea! The most I will drink in the morning is tea, since I wake up just by going out to feed and such! But by the time we got in the car to leave I was sort of over my mocha high!

Although all in all my weekend wasn't that great until Sunday afternoon. I won't go into the details because I really don't want to think about it much.

I do so solomly swear....

.... to spend more time doing my hobbies that don't suck the life and money out of me (um yes Lucy and Kezi I am talking about you here!) Although I don't consider my horses my hobby, they are more like a way of life.

But enough about the horses! I actaully ment to post this last week when it was all new and everything but I had a horrible week and didn't feel like it.

So it all started with Alicia wanting to know if I wanted to go to some reenactments this summer. We haven't gone for two or three years. Our group got a little too flightly, we never knew what our group was going to be or even what side they were going to be on! Plus, there are not many younger people in that group. So Alicia thinks we need to branch off with Gail or join a new group. But one way or another we would all (Alicia, Stacy and I, and maybe Heather) like to go back to reenacting again. I mean we all have a good supply of dresses, and a very nice tent, and well we miss it! Although with training for endurance that could get my life a bit hectic. But I guess we will see how that works out.

So from their we started into talking about sewing and everything we needed to sew for Cambria's birthday, which make me remember all the unfinished sewing projects I had. Which of course made me want to get me sewing room set up again and finish them! So I haven't done it yet but I really, really want to! So I made a pact with myself that I would, even if it ment spending a little bit less time with the horses. Although I think it more means giving up relaxing at night after work. Grrrr!

Hopefully I will have updates on the progress of my new pact! Haha!

Let the horse torture begin!!

Ok so dressing Ollie up as a unicorn isn't really torture, espeshally since we decided that spray painting him white was deffinatly a bad idea!! Haha! So instead the poor guy is going to be super glittery! The more glitter the better seems to be the idea!

So here is the plan so far:

Gold twinkle toes on his hooves
Gold twinkle gel in his mane and tail
Little braids in his mane
French braid his tail
All over gold sparkle dust
Purple twinkle stars on his butt
Gold halter and rope reins
Gold saddle cloth over the top of my square pad, with foam for the pommel and cantel and a flat strap going around his middle to keep it in place
Gold horn attached to his halter (that will needs some craftiness!)

And....


Actaull that might be it! For now anyway!

This weekend I am going to give him a good bath and see if I can't get some more coat off of him. Then I might clip him if I can find or pick up clipper heads. That way if I make any mistakes they might have time to grow out and be fixed. We will see. This will be my first time doing a body clipping, or any clipping other then bridal path!

Then for my own costume, because Alicia says that I have to dress up as a fairy, I am looking to buy a cute flowery dress that I can modify and add wings to. I want to be able to wear the dress other places afterwards. If it werent' for a kids party I would just use one of my monet dresses, but those won't work for a kids party nor for being around the horses!! Too bad!

Will update as things come along and get some pictures too! I think I might pay Loren to come along with us and take pictures.

Well a quick update on my non horse weekend

It was pretty boring actually! Loren and I pretty much just slept in, read and watched movies!

But there were a couple things of note:

WE HAVE BABY DUCKS!

Ducklings are absolutly the cutest of all babies! Thsese are not the first ducklings I have had around and I still wanted to follow them all over and watch how cute they are!

Since it was raing off and on Lucy decided to be an idiot to keep warm. I had not put her blanket on since the tempature was so warm despite the rain. But for whatever reason she felt it necissary to run around and buck and reat and jump over bushes. At one point she almost ran Eli over when I shooed her away from me. Even though I get pretty annoyed at her I still have to marvel at not only her dexterity but beauty when she run around. She looks more like a TB when she is running around and wet! She is also very good at knowing where to put on the brakes coming down the hill so that she slides just up to the fence or tree but not into it!

Kezi on the other hand could hardly move without sliping since her paddock gets slipery with any little amount of rain, and was very grateful to be moved back into the other paddock where it was dryer. I didnt' take her out for a walk at all over the weekend which I feel guity about now. Kezi is a mess and needs to be cleaned up as well since she full heartedly believes in rolling in the mud!

Hopefully I will get Luke out sometime this week so I can ride!!!!!!!!!!!

A Miss Kezi post!

I feel like bloging about Kezi today! Maybe its because I have been having so much fun taking her out for walks lately and that has been my only horse contact this week. Its funny that right when I started thinking about putting her down because she was so bad during the winter is right when I started bonding with her more! Not that I didn't like her before, she just never really felt like "my" horse like my other horses do! Even though I have spent more money on her then the two mini's combined! But Lucy still managed to rack up bigger vet bills last year.

I have been obsesivly watching Kezi move for any sign of lameness and gotta say that whatever is wrong with her, its entirely pain related! Maybe once a week at the most I see her do something that is lameness related, and at this point some of it, like her resting her hoove on her toe, could just be habit. Espeshally since I have seen her do it with the other hoove a couple times now. Also, ever since she has been on the anti-inflamitories she has been laying down with her leg underneither her, rather then stuck out in front of her.
I love seeing her trot up to the fence in the morning, she has such an amazing trot! I know she shouldn't be trotting right now, but unless I allow her the space to do so she will start rearing to get her energy out and that is really bad for her!
Part of me wants to keep her on the pain meds all summer just so she can feel good and be happy! But hopefully she will stay sound while on continued paddock rest through the summer.
I also wish I could take her on longer walks. I'm sure she more then enjoys our little jaunts out to eat grass, but a longer walk would be nice. I don't think it would be a problem if it weren't for the steep hill! But eventually we will have to go down it to go for any decent langth walks. But that is a ways away right now.

She is starting to shed out and loose her winter weight, I have always thought Lucy was a beautiful horse, and still do, but I defy anyone to not admit that Kezi is drop dead gorgeous! She is the kind of horse you see on those horse calenders. Like the one that I have in my office right now! HAah! None of those horses are as pretty as Kezi though!

Well lets hope I have a good weekend and start feeling better, I dont' mind being really sick becuase I get to rest and get better, but when I am just a little bit sick then I still go to work and then it takes longer to recover! Grrr!

Oh and its raining, but really warm, its wierd!