Well winter time blues going on here. I am ready for spring. At least on the weekends I try to get all the waters done where Aunt Lisa has been doing them most of the week.
Seriously lost that bet that it wouldn't snow but it called my bluff! Made it to work no problem but after lunch the roads were getting seriously bad. I64 and I75 got shut down and as I learned later on, route 60 in Mt Sterling got shut down as well from accidents.
So I made it as far as Aunt Lisa and Uncle Jim's for the night. Got to work about an hour late but made it.
Well to start my car up and died Thursday morning on my way to work, thankfully at our end of Donohue road but I have a fishy suspicion it is the fuel pump. Some gentleman, his 2 Amish workers and his 4x4 towed the car back and dropped it in the driveway. Friday night I picked up the big trailer on my way home so we could haul my car up to Craigs to get it fixed. Made the driveway look like a bunch of bad parking at a used car lot.
Today Stormy wore a saddle for the first time. It actually went really well. First I put the warmblood sized rope halter on it- fit really well I think. Then I put the saddle pad on her and she was like 'okay, whatever' until the wind blew it up onto her head. But even then she only took a few steps away from me and then turned to look at me, I straightened it up and as quickly as I could put the saddle on her back, she didn't budge. Good baby horse! Then I did up the girth- tight enough to keep it on her back, but I could get my whole hand under it so it wasn't tight at all.
Next step will be to start teaching her to give to pressure. Then the long lines and ground driving. That's what we are going to do over the next year. We also will have to get Patrick out to sedate and check for wolf teeth.
