Happy Day

Life has been so crazy lately. Everything has been such a blur for the past two months. It's hard to keep track of all the stuff I wanted to blog about.

Today was such a nice day that I decided I would take at least one horse out for a little spin around the farmer neighbor's field. I decided I would take Jim out since he's one of my "go to" horses. We started out at a walk but I couldn't keep him down out of his pacing trot the entire time. I'm afraid he's herd bound so we'll be working on getting that bad habit fixed. We weren't in the field for very long, but last fall the neighbor did a "deep rip" on it so the field is pretty worked up even this spring. I tried to stay out of the wet areas to make walking through it a little easier. We weren't gone for very long but Jim was worked into a lather.

I decided since the evening was still young, that I would take Zeke out (a non-rescue). Riding Zeke is almost like riding Ace, my beloved Arabian I really learned to ride on. I sure do miss that gelding. Zeke is so well trained. He knows more than I do about riding. I can only hope that I can learn so that I can show off all his knowledge. Zeke is the type of horse that can go into a lope and drop back down in just a heartbeat. I love that boy!


Today is Sam's last day of ulcer treatments. I missed a couple of days here and there but he got his full 30 days of ulcer meds. We are going to do an additional 14 days of maintenance. I only wish I would have caught Sam's ulcer sooner. I'm betting it flared up last fall but it didn't get bad until this spring. I'm going to start him on an ulcer maintenance plan in the fall and the spring so that we can avoid another major ulcer again. Sam has come out of this ulcer pretty well. I'm really happy with his weight. I'll have to get some pictures of him to show off his weight. He's probably looking the best I've seen him in years.

I've taken Chaos to a few riding clinics. He's getting a lot of experience. I'm hoping to use him as a spokesman for rescue (along with Bo). At our clinic on Wed, K rode Chaos. She said he wasn't stupid just dumb. Now don't get upset, what she means is Chaos is broke but he's not trained. She was on Chaos for about 10 minutes and new everything about him that I knew! I am totally amazed. Now the hard part will be for me to find the time to continue riding him and teaching/training him on the things K taught me.

I know there is more to blog about but I'm coming up blank so I'll just leave it that we are busy, busy, busy. Hopefully the weather will hold so that I can get more riding in!