Mondays need to be a day off to recover from the weekend. Especially when Friday is a day off.
I had planned for Friday off work because who wants to work on Friday? Friday morning, I worked with a new client and her horse. The short version of the story is the horse has navicular, had a neurectomy 2.5 months ago, and continues to get worse. It is a very complicated case, but hopefully we can get him back to soundness. Then home to cut the grass and Alex’s birthday party began at 3. 6 – 10 year old boys. We took them to Hopeville Pond for swimming, they had water gun and balloon fights for a couple of hours, pizza and a movie, and then camping in the tent. At midnight when I went to sleep, they were still awake. At 5:30 they came inside asking to watch tv and play xbox. Alex was a wreck on Saturday, but had a good time.
Saturday included trimming horses in the morning, Anna wrapping up the birthday party, Vicki going to a party, picking up 250 bales of hay off the field, loading into the trailer (2 trips), and loading into the loft. It was hot Saturday.
Sunday we got to work on fencing around the farm. We pulled a section of board fence and reset the posts in a slightly different spot to change the flow of the paddocks and make the arena area smaller. Now the grass arena is only about 140′ long by 90′ wide. We also worked on putting in replacement fence posts in the front pasture and getting the electric fence up all the way around. Starting today, the horses will be grazing in the front pasture. The grass is over 3′ feet tall so we might occasionally lose sight of Huey.
We had an early dinner (5:45) and then headed out to the barn to saddle up. The whole family left on a 50 minute trail ride starting at 7:15. When we got back, Calli and I headed into the arena to work on some transitions and backing.
By the time the kids went to bed around 10, we were exhausted. I guess it would help if we were not staying up until midnight every night. Too bad we can’t take a nap today.
The kids really enjoyed the trail ride and Vicki in particular is talking about her plan to ride the ponies every day.