Rainy Mid-November Weekend Plans

[AppyLover1996]

Rabbit has finally gotten better, vet has said that we probably won't ever find the cause of what made him have a stomach upset etc, but that stripping his diet back to near basics (which it pretty much was to begin with) is a good place to start.

So my weekend has been spent trawling various websites and putting together a feed plan which now comprises of grass chaff, NAF GastriAid, Protexin Gut Balancer, a sprinkling of mint to help cover the smell of the powders and looking at adding some sort of meadow grass type mash into the mix in the next few weeks. I've also gotten some different hay which smells GORGEOUS and is lovely and soft - both boys approve and have been inhaling their nets at the speed of light recently!

I didn't do much else apart from give Rabbit and Baggs lots of cuddles and be thankful that my cheeky 2.5 year old is back to his old ways of causing minor carnage x I'm going to give it a few more weeks and then look at introducing Rabbit to some groundwork again - but I'm not in any rush as he's my forever horse and I'm just thankful he is still here. He's also gone bum high again so I can't do what I had originally planned aha x

 

[BBP2]

I really want a tiny mini Darcy plus my husband's friends have 4 little horse mad girls. I suggested this as a plan and that he could take them all for walks and he turned his nose up at the walking aspect..... But not a chariot

I’m planning 2 x chariots so that my parents can use them as extreme off road mobility scooters as they get older!

I deferred the idea of Shetlands for ages as being sort of pointless when you could spend your money on a ridden horse, but I can’t express just how much I adore the pair of them. Mine unfortunately isn’t the soundest and definitely has a wind problem but even knowing that I wouldn’t change him for the world.

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

Loads of feelings about my visit to old share horse. Some need to go to Sports Psych next week - I got nervous on her which I absolutely was not expecting! Managed it fairly well on day one, including with a bloody pheasant-based spook and a front feet 'splat' spook while going downhill (I don't like riding downhill as it is!) Day two I was feeling less resilient and got off towards the end.

I'm trying to hold the good bits, learn from the rest and then not dwell on it too much. At the same time I'd be lying if I said it hadn't got me down in terms of how far away my goals seem and how backwards things seem to have gone over the last few years. Although another perspective is that her owner hasn't been riding (sharers have been) due to ill health, at one stage I couldn't ride because of my own health and taking a road trip with overnight stay to ride twice in two days would not have been on the cards at all!

It was pretty emotional saying goodbye to her again. There are some things I realised I don't miss but I certainly miss her, I miss faffing about grooming her, I miss going off for our adventures, and being at a nice yard where sitting down for a post-ride cup of something hot and soaking in being around horses and other people enjoying being around horses.