Wednesday, November 27, 2019

WW: Finding a New Normal

Now that the house is done and we're acclimating to life without a million ongoing construction projects, I'm sliding back into a new routine with the horses. My new job means I get home a little earlier (God bless) so if I hustle I can squeeze in a short ride before DH gets home and then still spend the evenings with him. Sometimes the weather doesn't cooperate, but when it does....
Rode the baby horse last week for the first time in 6+ months

No interest in dying so I tossed her out on the lunge first.

But she was perfect!

And then she snuggled with DH

Ruby was up the next night



Also thought a lunge would be a good idea before I attempted a "real" ride

Also perfect

Working on her sideeye game haha

We liked our mudroom camera (for the dogs) and external security cameras so much I bought more for the barn

DH did chores one night and I didn't check his work. Probably should have, because this is what I found when I opened the door 🤣

"Who, me? No I'm not bad. I even tried to poop IN the wheelbarrow for you!"

Luckily there was nothing for her to get in to so after visiting all her friends and pooping in the aisle she went back to her stall to eat hay lol. 

Got the barn cameras up!

Now I can stalk them from the house. Or from work (when I switch to night turnout in the summer). Pretty cool!

They spend so much time sacked out sleeping 🤣

Rode Cinna again this week and she really wanted to be friends with the goats.


I got right on without lunging and she was excellent - even had some super canter transitions!


This one was an absolute mudball last night

She warmed up great and then found a WHOLE NEW GEAR of trot that felt so fancy.

But then she decided cantering nicely was totally optional and she'd rather porpoise around like a lunatic 🤦‍♀️ horses.
So that's where we're at! Riding all winter in the Midwest without an indoor is hit or miss -- my footing is holding up great (FB memories reminded me a few years ago my arena is FOUR YEARS OLD already! 😱) so as long as it's not stupid cold/windy or stupid icy, we'll just keep on keeping on! Once we have a better baseline of fitness (aka being able to ride for longer than 30 minutes without being huffing and sweaty 🤣) I'll try to resume lessons so we can be ready for 2020!

12 comments:

  1. So exciting!!!! Cinna is so white!
    Which cameras did you go with? I'm still trying to make choices in that department...

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I know I'm so in denial about the end of actual dapples 😭😭😭

      And I ended up going with Wyze cameras - if you go to my FB post with the barn camera screenshot in the comments there is a ton of info about them!! 😁 And you can always ask me any other questions via messenger or email or whatever, I'm easy to find 🙃

      Delete
  2. So happy for you to be done(ish) with house building! Crossing my fingers for you that it isn't a horrible winter.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. As long as it's not as awful as last winter I'll be happy, haha.

      Delete
  3. Thanks for answering the question about the camera. I've been thinking of getting some. I'm glad that the house is settled and you are moved in and getting back into the groove.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yeah if you have any more specific camera questions, just give me a shout! I just put a lot of info into those FB comments so it seemed silly to duplicate it when I can just direct you there haha. But I REALLY like them, so I hope they hold up!

      Delete
  4. I'm so freaking happy for you that the house is done and you're settling into new routines with the horses. It's got to be the BEST feeling. And just in time for winter! Not much better than a cozy house on a cold day.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. It's a pretty great feeling 🤗 yesterday the weather was garbage so we built a fire and I spent most of the day snuggling dogs and puttering around organizing things haha. I'd rather have ridden but we had monsoon level rains over the holiday weekend!

      Delete
  5. Glad to see you riding again! Also, your muddy horse reminds me of my own muddy horse, thank god for blankets right now

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I actually turned everyone but Ruby out naked today, since it's supposed to be reasonably nice and sunny. I left her in her no-fill sheet since she can't seem to stay at all clean 🙈🤣 if I spend more time grooming mud off her than I do riding it kind of defeats the purpose! Haha

      Delete
  6. Yay I am so happy for you that you are back at it!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Definitely long overdue! And naturally as soon as I posted it dumped rain on us for two straight days lol 🤦‍♀️ but I'm trying!

      Delete