Very glad to hear all is well with you!
I had a pretty good weekend as a whole. I had planned to ride on Saturday, but my Mom needed me to help her pack up a bunch of stuff so they could pull up her old carpet and refinish the hardwood floors underneath so I had to bow out. It's just as well because I ended up needing to take little Miss Ellie to the Vet. She had pink eye, I think from all the flies. Her poor little eyes looked awful. They were all gummy and red. He did a corneal stain to make sure she didn't have any ulcers, then gave me some triple antibiotic cortisone ointment to put in them. She didn't not like the staining at ALL! It must've burned coz she went straight up both times. Poor little girl! But she looked 100% better yesterday. After that, we went to mother's.
Yesterday I took Bob up to Troy's and he had his first day of "school", but first Troy and I went on a short ride. He rode a young gray stud he's standing and I rode Bluebell. The trails around his place are really pretty, but they're REALLY steep and Bluebell was huffing and puffing in no time. We rode about an hour before I threw in the towel. With her being pregnant, I didn't want her to get too hot and tired. He'd left Bob tied to a post in the barn lot in a shipping halter while we were gone so he'd learn a little patience. When we got back he took him out to the round pen and lunged him until he was about to drop but he was really pleased with his gait. Then he took him back to the barn and put the saddle and bridle on him and lunged him in the round pen some more. He never bucked a lick and quit worrying with the bit pretty quick too. He decided that since he was doing so good, he'd go ahead and ride him in the round pen, so a friend of his held the lunge line while Troy rode. They did that for a few minutes, then he unclipped the lunge line and rode him loose in the round pen. He held his gait the whole time, with the exception of a few spurts of cantering. Troy said that he'd done more with Bob in one afternoon than he usually got done in 3 days. They thought that Bob's gait was really good and that he should make a really good trail horse. Needless to say, I was tickled.