A Sad Day

Changes are afoot!!! Unfortunately, I have lost my grazing. :-( I have been grazing at the property for nine years so to have to move is a bit of a shock!!! The people that are leasing the property are moving on and so must I. Fortunately, my good buddy Kristina, who lives just around the corner is silly…..cough cough….I mean kind enough to take on my boys. It will be really nice to have a riding buddy again, I haven’t had one for years. The big down side is that I can’t have the dogs up there (which is completely fair enough) but it will mean that I will have to be more time conscious of time when riding as I need to give the dogs time too. I will wait and see how it works out. I am a bit worried about Tai as at 28 it is quite a big thing to be moving. The current grazing has been so perfect for him but he has stayed at Kristina’s before so hopefully all will be well.

Apart from the grazing bombshell that I got on Sunday evening I had a FABULOUS weekend. The weather was stunning!!! On Saturday I picked up some drums to use as jump stands so I am finally set up to do some jumping. I had lunch out with Tina to thank her for providing the truck to pick up the drums which was really nice (haven’t had lunch out for aaaaaaaages). I took the dogs to the forest and then did some jumping with Spyke.

We did two exercises, both designed to encourage a good shape over the jumps. The first was trot poles, into a small cross pole and then one stride to an ascending oxer. I think I only managed trot poles once, the rest of the time Spyke seemed to think they were canter poles, the big noddy. LOL. The second exercise was an oxer with a placing pole on either side. He got that a bit wrong a couple of times (too enthusiastic) so I cantered him past it a few times and then popped him over and he was spot on.

Saturday night was a social night…. I know, I know…unheard of!!! I was invited out to dinner for a 40th and had a lovely evening at Molten in Mt Eden Rd. Yummy food and excellent company.

On Sunday I went to the forest with Martina. Kristina and Oscar were supposed to come too but poor Oscar has had a TERRIBLE tummy bug and was far too unwell to join us (he is on the mend now though). We rode down at the Muriwai end as it is flatter for Java who is just starting out for the season. I was really, really pleased with Spyke as he was forward, positive and very, very sensible. He even walked through puddles when I insisted. It was a really lovely ride.