Happy Fall! My car thought it was only 90 and the bank said 91 but the car dealer where I used to work said 92 and I have never known the GM of that dealership to ever be wrong about anything, so 92 it is.
Nina got hosed off. The scraping took a while, she has enough winter coat to hold a lot of water. Her coat passed the plush and fuzzy and cute stage weeks ago and is marching with great determination toward a serious winter coat. I am not looking forward to minus 22 like last year so I am ignoring it mostly.
She was pretty good today. I threw some poles out on the ground and we did circles and figure 8s over them at a trot for about 15 to 20 minutes. That's about all I can handle right now if I sit up, put my shoulders back and look like a rider. If I slouch and slump and lean over her neck I can go indefinitely. All the time I was obsessing over her lameness I certainly was not working on MY fitness.
Rode around for a while at a walk. She is a little sore and easily uncoordinated from the lack of work but getting better and I think all the stepping over poles is helping and lots and lots of walking.
More poles tomorrow. I am thinking about clipping her already if it doesn't cool off soon. I usually wait until around Thanksgiving - might be a little earlier this year. That reminds me to get clipping flyers out to other barns ASAP.
Nina got hosed off. The scraping took a while, she has enough winter coat to hold a lot of water. Her coat passed the plush and fuzzy and cute stage weeks ago and is marching with great determination toward a serious winter coat. I am not looking forward to minus 22 like last year so I am ignoring it mostly.
She was pretty good today. I threw some poles out on the ground and we did circles and figure 8s over them at a trot for about 15 to 20 minutes. That's about all I can handle right now if I sit up, put my shoulders back and look like a rider. If I slouch and slump and lean over her neck I can go indefinitely. All the time I was obsessing over her lameness I certainly was not working on MY fitness.
Rode around for a while at a walk. She is a little sore and easily uncoordinated from the lack of work but getting better and I think all the stepping over poles is helping and lots and lots of walking.
More poles tomorrow. I am thinking about clipping her already if it doesn't cool off soon. I usually wait until around Thanksgiving - might be a little earlier this year. That reminds me to get clipping flyers out to other barns ASAP.
92! Oh no! I wonder if that is heading our way. Probably--LOL!
ReplyDeleteI hope Nina's feet are doing okay. :)
Ewww I am glad is seems we are in the clear from that kind of heat anymore this year. Poles sound like a great idea I think I might do some of those tomorrow.
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