Anyone else being horribly lazy?

I wish I could be! Up at 6 and straight to the yard to feed and turn out etc, then home and change and to work for 7.45. Finish work at 6 and straight to the yard to bring in and muck out and try and lunge or ride because he turns wild with too many days off and normally home by 8 to make dinner etc! Wish I had a lunch hour to go and get horse food etc but only get 30mins so don't actually have time to get out of the department! My days off are just spent rushing around trying to get everything else done - roll on the clocks changing.
 
I am, apart from doing the animals I seem to be spending the rest of the day eating sugary food and slouching about watching rubbish on the telly. I had a hospital appointment yesterday so I had to have a real proper wash and
put some decent clothes on for the first time in a week!
 
I had high hopes of hunting over the winter etc but in reality i have now had his shoes off and turned him away till the lighter evenings as didnt get him fit enough and lacking in motivation etc.
 
I can't muster up much motivation at the moment, but I've had a stinking cold and cough since Christmas which has left me with no energy. By the time I've done the morning turnout/muck out at 6am, gone to work 8-4, back to the yard at 5 to bring in for the night I am fit for nothing. I'm off today as farrier is out this afternoon so could have ridden this morn but went home instead and watched the new year rude tube and ate more chocolate instead :(
 
splashnutti1 said:
My get up and go has truly got up and gone!!
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Think the weather is not helping us all ;)
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This^^^

Mine are both retired so no riding at all, the longer I have no riding horse the worse I'm getting at shifting my butt to do stuff. They get checked every day of course, but get brushed maybe once every couple of weeks. Hating this weather, hating having no energy and feeling tired/like I've been hit by a bus on a continual basis, really missing riding and generally being a bit of a misery guts atm.

The only horse I could possibly start riding has been out of work for months, isn't mine and has a very complicated back story that could mean he's off the yard in a heartbeat, plus it would mean starting him again in crap weather mostly under lights, which always adds the extra spooky element, oh and it would have to be bareback because he doesn't have a saddle that fits. I was offered a wee coblet on loan, with tack that I can't afford to take on.

Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan, moan etc etc etc
 
Mine isn't turned out at the moment (boggy fields + idiot horse = a disaster waiting to happen) so I don't have a choice - have to work him every day. Luckily a friend has been helping out with the riding, so I do get to have some lazy days when I go home from work and get straight into bed. I am seriously lacking motivation at the moment; looking forward to the summer when it might start being fun again!
 
My get up and go has got up and gone!!!

Up at 5.30, leave house at 6.15, at yard for 6.30, feed brekky, hay field turn 2 out, leave yard at 6.50 to be at work for 7.30 start, change once i arrive at work.

leave work at 4pm, yard by 4.35/4.40, muck both beds out, re-do haynets, make feeds, fresh water buckets, bring horses in, quick rug check, brush if not soaking wet or resembling swamp donkeys.

The only saving grace is, one of mine is 26 and retired, the other 3.5 so only riding at weekends if weather permits at the moment, im beginning to wonder how i used to find time to ride in the winter before!

Leave yard around 6.30, home around 6.45, slob!!!!

Im hoping its dry Saturday, so i can take my youngster for a short hack if possible, that is if i can find my motivation.
 
I am so glad it isn't just me, my horse has been ridden twice in about a month now! Everytime I psych myself up to ride I change my mind as soon as I have done all of the jobs and just want to get home...
Although I am making myself feel seriously guilty for not riding, she doesn't seem in the slightest bit bothered! We are hackers and dont have any light in the week to ride out (we have a school but neither of us enjoy the schooling much anymore), and our riding is so wet and boggy it would be an accident waiting to happen anyway! So a bit of a lost cause at the moment.
She does get a good groom most days though and a bit of a fussing so I think she is actually enjoying all the fun with now work!!
 
Im at the field for 6am to feed, check all 3 out (adjust rugs or take off if its sunny) and put hay/haylage out (we have a clay swamp so very little grass now). I wont leave hay in the worst bits (most of the front of the field both sides of the gate) so i trudge through the mud to place somewhere drier. I usually spend about an hour there (small shed next to field so make sure all sorted for OH in the evening). Its my first winter with them at home and the clay fields are just depressing (but its been a year of lessons learnt and ive already got a list of things to do this year). I then leave home around 7.30 to get to work for 8.30 and can work all hours but earliest i can be back is 6.30pm. My OH gives them more hay at 5pmish and i will check them again if im not mentally late. I bring them in at weekends (one night or two or during the day - they always get turn out) so they can dry out, have their coats off and i can give them a good old check - i focus on their legs and baby oil and mud guard up as the field is such a mess. Stables are by the hosue so i check on them 2/3 times. Weekends get taken up with chores such as mucking out, grooming, getting feed and bits etc - my riding mare had a few days off after physio in early Jan (ridden very little over Xmas as saddle issues again so v light schooling only) and as saddle still not sorted havent ridden her for about two weeks. In some ways its been a nice break but saddler coming tomorrow so got to get back in the groove! Roll on spring!
 
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