September 2011

It has been a while (as always) since my last post. I COMPLETELY blame Facebook for that!!! I also don't have a huge amount to talk about. It has been a long, hard winter. It was very wet and very, very muddy.

Spyke has come out of the winter with very soft feet. This has resulted in LOTS of abscesses and to add insult to injury, just as I was getting him back into work and he was going BEAUTIFULLY he did a big yahoo in the paddock and manged to stomp on something really hard and has damaged the sole of his foot. :-( So he has been bandaged for the last two weeks. I am hoping to ride him today (fingers crossed) but I think that I will only be able to road ride for a few weeks which is just a REALLY disappointing statr to my season. We have already missed two competitions that I would have like to have taken him to and I suspect we will miss a few more. :-(

Spyke a few hours before hurting his foot. 

Tai is a box of fluffy ducks. He too had a hard winter though and at one point he dropped SO much weight SO suddenly that I thought I would lose him but after shovelling LOTS of feed into him he is now doing well again and is happy and bouncy. :-)

The dogs are well. Brina (touch wood) has done nothing terrible recently and is well , happy and bouncy. Sammie had her 'beauty sopt' removed this week and is looking fabulous. :-) Actually, it is a bit swollen so she looks like she has collagen implants but it seems to be healing nicely and she too is healthy and happy. She does have a degenerative spine thing though which means that occasionally she will move in a way that hurts but we are managing that.

Other than that I am delighted to say that there are no dramas, long may that continue!!!!!!

Tai at the end of winter. Note: this is him looking better!!!!!

Apologiews for the pictures being all over the place. I just couldn't seem to move them around successfully today.