Rainy Day

It is a lovely rainy Sunday morning, which is just bliss. There's no rush to do anything and I can see a slow but productive day coming. At the moment I am sitting on my bed, still in my pyjamas with Brina sleeping next to me and Sammie sleeping on the floor.

The reason that we are 'computering' in the bedroom is because the rest of the house is chaos. The builders have been in to fix the ceilings after Mr Rat caused a mess by chewing through two water pipes. All the furniture from the home theatre is spread throughout the rest of the house and one corner of the lounge is empty. It will probably be chaos for a while too as I am grabbing the opportunity to get the plasterer to skim the master bedroom and the home theatre and I will finally get them repainted.

The animals are all well. Brina is due for her next dilation. She has been brilliant for the last few weeks with very few issue. The vet rang us on Friday to see how she is doing and that night she regurgitated her dinner and the next day she found a bone while walking in the forest. Fortunately she brought that back up pretty quickly. She is a worry. LOL

Sammie is getting a bit stiff in her old age. I had her on some Hubrihound which was really making a difference to her but blinkin' Brina stole the tub off the bench and ate the lot (and then brought it all back up) so I have to save up for some more. Grrrrrr.

Spyke is back in work. Yay!!! We have entered our first dressage (gulp) and have signed up for a show hunter clinic in November. I have popped a couple of jumps with him and he is sane and sensible (although the first jump was somewhat hairy LOL). Yay!!! Yesterday Kristina and I took Spyke and Benhorse up to an arena to play and Spyke was very good, I even cantered him around the arena with my hands on my head, he is a good boy!!! :-) We are probably going to do a terrible test at the dressage in a couple of weeks though as he is still quite stiff and doesn't really lengthen at all yet. I have nowhere to practice lengthening either so I think we will mess that up, oh well, it is only two movements......

Spring

We are well into spring now although we only just now getting some nice weather. We have had 5 nice days in a row which has been LOVELY!!!!

Brina has been great. She has a couple of minor issues but with being on complete lock down we have avoided any real problems. She is still getting soaked, mashed food and is slowly putting on weight.

Spyke is now back in work, 2 months later than usual and has been pretty good so far. He has felt a bit bucky at the canter which made me realise that I haven’t actually lunged him at all this season. He likes to have a good buck on the lunge and was obviously ‘feeling the need’. So I gave a bit of a lunge on Tuesday and sure enough, there was a great deal of bucking. Hopefully that is now out of his system.

We had our first forest ride on Saturday. Kristina and I took Spyke and Oscar for a bit of a womble. The boys were very, very good although BOTH managed to lose a shoe, I suspect they lost them when Oscar stood on Spyke’s back foot.

I have sent in the entries for our first dressage comp of the season. We are doing two novice (gulp) tests at the Riding Club. I am not sure that we will be ready in three weeks but we shall give it a shot!!!!