I went out and got Harley saddled, then came in for lunch. I'm just about done, then heading out to ride him a bit.
I'm worrying now that all my horses are so out of shape, I'd better just maybe do the same routine with all of them. I am going to trail ride a little on him, then come back and do the cavaletti excersice. But I'm not going to work him more then an hour. Then I'll do Rusty's 15 minutes.
Becky
Hi! Quiet on here today~ We have been to get 500lb of feed. We only took my van. When we take Deaconjims truck we will get more on the one trip.
Tommy was miserable and tired on the journey, and it reminded us of something that Jacob said when he was just about 3 years old. We were in the durrango on vacation in Tenessee, and he was crabby and miserable with that bottom lip out as far as he could go, we were laughing at him and he turned round to Emma who was sitting next to him and said "If people laughed at horses, they would BITE them. "
We almost went of the road after that one! What a warning!
: )
Hopefully you won't have the same problems with the others coz they haven't had as long a layoff period as Rusty had. But bringing them up gradually won't hurt anything if you have the time to do it. I'm doing good to get to ride Blade once a week so the poor little bugger just has to deal with it. I rode him yesterday for about 4 hours and he did really well. He's beginning to get his stamina built back up after having a pretty slack winter and I can tell the difference in his gait.
I'm also taking Bob(TheBiter) to have his noogies nipped this afternoon. ;o) He'll be 2 years old next monday so I figured it was about time. He pulled his little trick of jumping up on Blade's back again on Sunday when I was trying to get Blade back through the pasture gate. It's aggravating as heck when he does that. I was whipping him for all I was worth and he wouldn't get down. I wish I'd had my little video camera, but the I ran the battery down out on the trail and I didn't get any decent video anyways. Poor ol' Blade was trying to get away from him but I had him by the lead. I finally had to just let go and let him get him off by himself. He really wasn't trying to breed him coz he didn't have his "equipment" out so I'm not sure exactly what the deal is about that. Maybe it's just a dominance thing coz he only does it when Blade has been gone, like on a trail ride, and then comes back. Whatever it is, it's fixing to stop, courtesy of "Dr. Knife". ;o)
Hey, I am sorry that I did'nt get by today but we got to working on the water, electric and sewer and then some guys came and finished the siding and the inside while we were working on everything else. We got the electric hooked up, now have to call electric co. and have them come set a meter. I am sorry that I didn't get over there today, but I am trying really hard to get moved sometime this week. And then I also had Marci today. So I was really busy.
I will try amd call you later but I have to final inspection tommorrow on the house and have to finish the water and sewer so I don't know what I will be doing after that.
CS