time to give it all up

Golly Cliqmo I am 55 and havent got your Mums energy but I have gone the crafty route.

I currently have on the go:-

Acrylic painting of friends Andalusian mare - planning stage

Stripping a small side table (very cheap) and Artying it up

Stripping and revarnishing a garden seat (will let partner put it back together)

Teaching myself modelling in Air Dry Clay

Painting a kitten in Soft Pastel

Re landscaping one of my borders.

Not quite the same but I am a constant worrier and now dont have the worry of my horse anymore and to be honest my retired lad was the one and only for me.
 
Sad fact is as we get older we just don't have the same amount of energy - you know, 3 days to get over a hangover when it would not even have touched the sides when you were younger, bottle slips a bit after the various knocks. So I have slowed down, I no longer want to go out and compete every weekend, I don't want all my time being taken up by my horses or every penny paying for them as I have done for that for many years! So I have one horse now not 3, he is not a electric horse like everything else I have had and he made the decision for me that we couldn't event as he isn't brave enough (although still think I can lug him gently round an intro course!). As you get older, your job has more responsibiities and demands and life just crowds in! but I could not give up completely .. I just downsized a bit! Still have lessons, still go out though not every weekend and I dont care if we dont go out for a couple of months.. Just enjoy my boy!
 
I can relate to the lack of energy thing! :o At one point I would have given anything to have the time to ride more often, now I have the time I can't be bothered!

I think I am at the point in my life when I want to slow down a bit and appreciate everything a bit more, but then get down about not wanting, or being able to be as active as I used to be.



I know one poster mentioned HRT, and I do think that the changes we go through or are going through at this time of life do have a huge impact, physically and emotionally as well as all the other life changes that happen around this time.

I've already decided that this will be my last horse, she's seventeen now, so if I have another fifteen years to go I think I'll be really strugggling (horse kept at home and I do everything.)

That being said, I spot a nice youngster and I'm tempted, and can't imagine having an empty stable.:(

My dad is seventy this year, but still has his horses although he drives rather than rides, so there is hope!
 
I'm very lucky because I have the perfect horse - in Sienna. If I want to have fun then she will do any job for me. I also have a son who is suprisingly, still very keen,so I get to act as groom/owner without the stress of riding.
Nevertheless I have still bought & broken in my 4 yr old. It is a drag having to go & ride him, but I do feel it doesn't hurt him to just pootle about this year. I also feel that buying him has forced me to make the effort, it would be too easy to stop altogether. I'm 48 btw, & suprised at how unenthusiastic I am these days.
 
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