Brrrrr....

It's cold... and there's snow on the ground... and I know I say I hate heat and "the cold never bothered me anyway" but this year it's bothering me! I just want to ride!!! I am so ready for spring. I am so ready for long trail rides, and late evenings at the barn, and pony bathes (god knows they need them!) and maybe even some shows!!! I feel like I'm finally on the right path with Rayna. I'm still not positive what I want my end goal to be with her, maybe dressage, maybe I can teach her to jump and we could do starter events (that would be my ideal goal), maybe we'll just do fun classes at shows and trail ride for the rest of her riding career. But I'm at the point right now where I'm not as worried about future goals as I am about what I'm doing with her right now. I've been watching a lot of videos and reading up on ground pole work and that's going to be our next en-devour, Later this week I'm going to head to the barn and set up some pole patterns in the indoor to work on. I can do them with Penny too, and eventually maybe with Sabrina.

I finally got on Sabrina, I've only ridden her once but it was awesome! She doesn't stop or steer, haha, but she's sweet and she's safe and that's what is important to me, once it warms up I'll start riding her more. She learned how to flip her tongue over the bit so she can't feel the pressure, which is something that Gus used to do too, so I'm going to dig up the flash strap thats in my tack trunk somewhere and try that on her to see if it will keep her from opening her mouth enough to flip her tongue over the bit. I'm hoping she'll end up being a nice trail mule, that's all I've ever wanted her to be, a safe, happy trail mount that I can ride and put friends on. Sabrina and Penny are starting their new joint supplement at the end of this month. It's call Pentosan and it's an injectable supplement that they will each get once a month. I've heard some amazing things about it and I'm hoping that with this new supplement, plus her new shoes and the Previcox she's on, that I will be able to get penny light jumping sound again. Like crossrails, I would be so so happy with just jumping crossrails.

I'm really hoping that by this spring/summer I will be able to finally get a horse trailer so I can start doing some serious off farm riding with all of my girls. I really want to do some shows, and go on trail rides and hunter paces with heather! Rayna and Heidi would be a great (slow) hunter pace team and I really miss hunter pacing!!