Boggle- USA bound!

[Trouper]

However busy work gets it can't be allowed to consume your whole life. You need something besides looking at Bog every day and wondering how long etc ..............that way madness lies.

You will be able to cope with a youngster. It is the perfect situation to take it really easy and slow with him while all the other dramas play out. Ridden doesn't mean that you need to be up and running in competition mode any time soon so just try and take it one day at a time - he has to pass the vetting yet!!! If he does, then it is meant to be and other things will work out.

And breathe ........................!!

 

[Caol Ila]

I totally panicked when I ended up with a 2 yr old who had like no handling. Felt totally over my head.

I think she’s turning out alright.

 

[Michen]

However busy work gets it can't be allowed to consume your whole life. You need something besides looking at Bog every day and wondering how long etc ..............that way madness lies.

You will be able to cope with a youngster. It is the perfect situation to take it really easy and slow with him while all the other dramas play out. Ridden doesn't mean that you need to be up and running in competition mode any time soon so just try and take it one day at a time - he has to pass the vetting yet!!! If he does, then it is meant to be and other things will work out.

And breathe ........................!!

You are right! I have to remind myself that the ridiculousness of work right now is rather critical to spend silly money on silly things like horses, haha.

I'm usually pretty chilled but this job (much as I really enjoy a lot of it) is soooo much bigger and more complex than anything I've ever done. I don't even have to manage people, my last role was leading a 10 strong sales team and it was way easier than this!

 

[Lauraback]

Good luck with the vetting Michen if it’s meant to be it will be

 

[BBP]

I feel you… I have just got home after a 16 hour hectic work day, with a 4am dog walk prior to starting, and had to get someone else to sort the horses. So the absolute sensible thing to have done is have an unbacked 5yo arrive on Friday, to join my unbacked 4yo. Yep, that makes sense. ….my brain would be mildly freaking out at the insanity of it all if it wasn’t so tired.

Luckily because my brain is so tired it has gone slightly delirious, so is still going with it and not allowing logical brain to take over too much. Logical brain is boring and captain of the fun police.

 

[Michen]

I feel you… I have just got home after a 16 hour hectic work day, with a 4am dog walk prior to starting, and had to get someone else to sort the horses. So the absolute sensible thing to have done is have an unbacked 5yo arrive on Friday, to join my unbacked 4yo. Yep, that makes sense. ….my brain would be mildly freaking out at the insanity of it all if it wasn’t so tired.

Luckily because my brain is so tired it has gone slightly delirious, so is still going with it and not allowing logical brain to take over too much. Logical brain is boring and captain of the fun police.

Urgh I hear ya! I actually just cried at a colleague for the first time in my working life lol. Luckily it was pathetic laughing crying, all because she asked me if I was ok! Woops. Tomorrow will be a nightmare either on a high and unable to concentrate or on a low and the same depending on vet.

Hope yours eases up soon and you get to go get your pony!

 

[southerncomfort]

Good luck !!

 

[Moobli]

Best of luck today

 

[HappyHollyDays]

Good luck for today xx

 

[rabatsa]

Fingers crossed for a good vetting.

 

[Cavalier]

Good luck for today

 

[TPO]

Everything crossed for you

 

[myheartinahoofbeat]

If he's as good as you think he is then, he'll fly through...if not, then it might be a blessing in disguise.

 

[MurphysMinder]

Everything crossed

 

[callybbi]

Good luck with the vetting xx

 

[Fraggle2]

Hope the vetting goes well.

 

[Peglo]

Good luck

 

[BallyRoanBaubles]

Everything crossed

 

[Michen]

4.45am and last I looked at my alarm before sleeping it was 1am.

VERY good idea to have a horse vetted in the middle of busy work haha! Though I’m sure it was excel financials swimming in my head and not the pony tbh.

Thanks everyone! I’ll letcha know.

 

[JGC]

I bought the horse in my avatar during the most hectic period of the year at work - had been working every day for about six weeks and the first full morning off I went to try her! I didn't have a livery lined-up and I bought her from a riding school that was closing so she needed to leave - I was getting up at 4 a.m. to work after finishing at midnight just to free up enough time to call round yards I feel your pain!

Best decision of my life.

Fingers crossed for you today.

 

[Sheep]

Fingers, toes, legs, eyes, everything crossed!!!

 

[CanteringCarrot]

Meh, I bought and imported my horse right after I sold my last one because I couldn't import that one and was moving overseas to a location that I really don't/didn't fancy. So, he was basically purchased during a mental breakdown

Fingers crossed for today!

 

[j1ffy]

Fingers crossed for you Michen!!

 

[meleeka]

I'm sending successful vetting vibes from just along the coast. Will be looking for updates later.

 

[Caol Ila]

Watching this thread like everyone else. Fingers crossed for you.

 

[SO1]

I have a busy job and elderly parents who require a lot of my time. I did wonder if buying a 5 year old was a good idea. Things have got worse with my parents I have had not had the time I hoped with Bert but it is managable if you have the funds to buy in appropriate help which thankfully I do.

Also there is no pressure with youngsters taking it a bit easy sometimes doesn't do any harm.

I hope the vetting goes well.

4.45am and last I looked at my alarm before sleeping it was 1am.

VERY good idea to have a horse vetted in the middle of busy work haha! Though I’m sure it was excel financials swimming in my head and not the pony tbh.

Thanks everyone! I’ll letcha know.

 

[Ceriann]

All the very best today!

 

[Michen]

Thank you! My vet is later than planned, very unhelpful for my churning stomach haha.

What will be will be and all that… I have a new level of sympathy for those of you who have bought horses and needed full proper vettings. It’s going to really suck if he fails not least because I’m spending about 2.2k on it.

Also funny, I was looking at USA horse insurance. Most policies actually require nothing vet wise (not even a check) unless the horse is 100k or over. Unless you want LOU. UK ones, most need x rays for anything 10k and up it seems. And to even insure something over 15k I saw a few that wouldn’t even do it!

The difference in the market is insane.

 

[Michen]

I have a busy job and elderly parents who require a lot of my time. I did wonder if buying a 5 year old was a good idea. Things have got worse with my parents I have had not had the time I hoped with Bert but it is managable if you have the funds to buy in appropriate help which thankfully I do.

Also there is no pressure with youngsters taking it a bit easy sometimes doesn't do any harm.

I hope the vetting goes well.

This is true! I have the funds, though it's harder to find freelance riders here, they don't seem to exist much. Also made complicated because of my set up, I use a friends arena that's a hack away but with all the liability rubbish here I don't think they'd be keen for me to have a random rider use it. Most riders expect the horse to go to their barn and go in "training".

But either way if he passes he will hang out in the UK for a bit and have plenty of input from people I really trust. And I am HOPING I would be able to get back there early October to sit on him before shipping him, if I can juggle work.

 

[Michen]

Also it's making me reminise haha. Was re reading the facebook chat with the seller of Boggle from nearly 8 years ago. I SO nearly didn't buy him, in fact I said no at first then went back and he said I was second in line now as someone else was interested. Came back to me a couple of days later. It's absolutely crazy to think I ever could have missed out on having Bog in my life, he's been such a big part of it.

Can you believe that I looked at THIS weird looking thing and actually wanted to buy him? There was really no way of telling what an utterly beautiful little horse he was under all that but I suppose a gut feel is everything!