Secret Blog

Don't think anyone reads my blog any more since it's moved from SU. This is a good thing although funny how every Tom, Dick and Harry read it on there and reported it back to people who weren't on SU and then it all got twisted and lots of problems were caused!

I miss the input from a few people whose opinions I respect but on the whole it's far better to be here, out in the open than have my blog where only a few people can see it and then have paranoia and/or chinese whispers take over.

Not got much to report really. Squirt was good today for his re-freezemark. Although typically once it had a Grade 1 over it, it was only the bottom part of his E that wasn't great.

Fried field opposite stables, H has had three bloody good belts off it (it's connected to the mains. Ha) so hopefully he'll pack it in now, shoving his head over the fence.

Muck picked. Tidied old haylage out. Ummmm what else...

Oh found an alternative use for the t shirt the dogs chewed up .... Sam wore it as a dog coat today cos he was cold LOL. So J has gone to t shirt place to see how much the kids ones are and if there's any really small ones. If so, he can have a t shirt as a dog coat with the yard logo on lol.

Still want great-great-grandad's stationary engine company "logo" on a t shirt cos i'm very proud of what he achieved and i think it'd look great. The whole family can have one if they want one :)

Had some rain the last two days and Oh My Fucking God. Our grass. My two are in a small paddock (for us) and in the week I started to get worried as there was hardly any grass in there, starting to look mossy and could see the earth. Now we've had rain. Oh my god. It's growing like weeds!!!!! So am happy that we're not going to trash the field. It's gone a very lime green colour too so it'll go WHOOOOOSH this next week I reckon!

Plotted yard dressage thing today. Hopefully YO will say we can invite a few people to do it with us too :) Need to find someone who would judge it for us but have a couple of people in mind :)

That's about it really! Am bored having no horse to ride and said horse is also bored. May take him for a little road tootle tomorrow to alleviate said boredom. Am sure just walking for 10 mins would be OK.

Am contemplating equilibrium pad. I know they're not a replacement for a proper warm up but T-Jay really hates warm up arenas - people zipping left right and centre and they always always seem to get really close to him, trap him on the rails and he is absolutely terrified of it. I have no idea why but like last week, I couldn't warm up. I had to toss up between warming up but getting him tense and upset or leaving him standing relaxed but compete with no warm up. Am thinking if I at least had a massage pad thing it would HELP if I can't warm up properly?

He's also very good at being "not quite right" so am wondering if it would help with that too? Although I really wouldn't want to mask anything but might just mean we can go a bit longer between having his back done?