Am I just feeling low because its winter????

Catembi/Poppymoo - not for me but for someone else could you share your trailer loading tips as someone who is having real difficulties. Horse will load and walk through and out but as soon as try to put up breast bar or load him "for real" objects big time.

I am another with winter blues. Have managed the sum total of lunging one horse on two occasions this week and the other for one session, when he seemed to have regressed (another early stage ex racer project but to be fair was howling a gale and the school is surrounded by trees and things that clank and groan in the wind) but I am someone who is easily dispirited. Because of other things going on, have decided that am just going to go with the flow and if he is not ready to go out in March which had been the plan, so what.
 
Everything is so much harder for us in winter, that is what makes us riders really tough. You must try and focus on the positives, not the negatives - they have happened and you can not change them. Really think about what went well, smile and build on this positive thinking; I promise it will make you feel better!

Chin up, shortest day soon and then it will start to get lighter at night - yipee!!:)
 
I more or less give up riding from now until after Christmas. I will go out for a hack just to keep ticking along, but all thoughts of competitions or even schooling are forgotten. It is harder if you can only ride after work and have to use the school, but why not do something different for a week or two and give you and yourself a break.
 
Yeah, when I'm schooling in the dark, rain & wind by the light of a single floodlight (which is verrrrry shadowy...) I do sometimes wonder what the eff I'm doing! I used to wonder much the same thing when I used to hack v early (offroad) by the light of...the moon! But without doing stuff like the above, everyday life is just too boring & uninspiring.

Loading...I am not any kind of expert. We used a Dually halter & took the partition out, & Trev straight away went from 'No way' to 'okay'. We now need a full width breast bar before we can venture out, so it's poss that it might all start unravelling at that point.

I really want him to travel without Jenny - I used to cheat when I had a lorry & take Jen everywhere as it kept him quiet, but she is 38 & could probs do without being dragged to every single lesson & comp, esp cos she wants to join in with activities & gets cross being left out.
 
I too am feeling winter blues :(.. Work has piled on at uni, ive broken up with my OH, trying to find time to ride the horses is a PITA and it always seems to be dark, cold and horrid! Im also sure its got something to do with the lack of natural light which makes everyone feel more miserable :(. Not long now until the days start getting a little longer :)
 
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