A busy two days.

I had a lovely time yesterday over at Trudi's, good chat, tasty lunch and plenty of cuddles courtesy of Lydia, Trudi's daughter. Thanks guys for a good day.
Last night I went to the art class with Ricky, bloody hard when you're so tired you've the attention span of a goldfish. I managed to draw something very mediocre and totally unsatisfactory. The weather was awful, strong winds and heavy rain, lightning and even hail stones. On the way back the road was littered with branches off the trees, it looked like a tornado had gone through.
I awoke around 3.30 in the morning with the sound of the wind and rain on the skylight, to find the kittens on the bed. There's nothing unusual about that, they tend to sneak in after they've had their nocturnal adventures, but something made me reach down to stroke them. When I stroked J.C. she growled at me which cerainly isn't normal. She was rigid, holding herself in a really scary way.I switched the light on and there were a few spots of blood on the bedspread. I checked her out, trying to see where she was hurt but couldn't find anything obvious, so I watched her for about half an hour until she went off to sleep. Of course, I couldn't sleep properly after that and kept waking up to check on her. This morning she was very quiet and seemed a little stiff, but she came down and had some breakfast.. I don't know what happened to her, but she seems better tonight.
We had our monthly horse group meeting today, we had an equine vide grenier. I took some never worn long leather boots and about 5 pairs of jodhs, also never worn and unfortunately too small now for my fat, aging body. Huh, I only managed to sell one pair, so not enough to buy a new pair that actually fit me! Bev came over and it was great to see her and we had a good laugh.
Absolutely worn out tonight, but a good couple of days. Hopefully the weather might be ok tomorrow for some horsey time.

Tack Talk

Same again today with Remy, work in hand. I started with a short session with the bit asking for relaxation of the jaw and the beginnings of flexions and I was pleased with him. We worked on the giravolta and he moves forward and crosses his hind legs over in quite a controlled way, but he's not very consistent in his head and neck. We have either too much or too little bend. Something to work on.



I was out this afternoon at our local horse group, today was really just a horsey "ladies who lunch" but was quite interesting as everyone brought some unusual items of tack. Saddles, bridles, headcollars. bits, gadgets etc. we had a room-full, which provided us with some stimulating discussion. We even had a few examples of hoof boots which I'm very interested in as I want to keep the youngsters barefoot if possible.

A busy but enjoyable day.