A Breakthrough, and a Disaster!

Wow, I have so much to say right now, and I don't really know where to start! I thought I'd skip the goals for now, while my mind is complete mush, and focus on today. I thought it'd be easier to just break the 'chapters' to each blog up by horses, so lets hope this works!

.Evo.
Today was a good day for my big man. He'd had all week off because of me having only enough time to muck out, feed, water and go! And since my good friend from uni is coming out tomorrow to ride him, I thought I ought to make sure that's a good idea!
I expected some major work on my behalf - he's usually really lazy, and I have to nag a lot to sort of 'wake' him up. But today - I'm not sure if the bad wind had anything to do with it - he was rather interested in working, so I used it to my advantage. We warmed up around the outside of the paddock, he did have a couple of nappy moments over the girls grazing down the back, and a hissy fit over the puddles in one area (you'll all soon learn that Evo despises water and its his only true 'ugly side' ), but for the majority he was really well behaved. I didn't want to work on the walk today, although I do admit I could have spent more time on it. He was readily accepting the bit at the walk, but I felt there wasn't enough activity coming from behind. I'll really have to work on that.
But I started doing some trotting in straight lines, and it actually helped me so much! Why the hell have I stuck to circles, when doing straight lines made me find it almost EFFORTLESS to post?! At first I was horrible, and with all the water everywhere (BRING ON SPRINGGGGG!) my paddock isn't exactly the best place to school, so there's only certain parts to use. But once we got going, I was on fire... I felt that with a little more stability in my legs I would have breezed through it! What an achievement! I can't wait to hop up and do the same thing tomorrow while I show my baby boy off to my friend!
After cooling down, I took him back up to the shed and let him eat some of the spring grass coming through... I wish I could rest a part of my paddock for that right now! After some hard feed, and grooming, he had his rugs put back on, and went off back to his girls.


.Honey.
Miss Honey Bee was in a reasonably good mood today! She played the whole 'I'm not really grumpy at you but if I put my ears half back you might realise that I don't wish to be caught and taken out of my paddock for groomies' act. She was much better about going away from her friends today, a lot less reluctant... still a little iffy, but not as bad. Groomed her and only had one issue, when a horse next door broke out of its paddock and started galloping, Honey shied and pulled back so I was quick to untie her. She soon settled down and I went back to grooming, covering and feeding, on the same deal as Evo.
However she did get a little annoyed with Evo crowding her today when I had Bai up in the shed area, and decided to just go through the gate to the big space beside the paddock, since the fence wasn't on. She was thankfully not hurt, and just let me catch her, as she knew she was in trouble, lol.


.Bailey.
Today, with Bailey, I had the worst experience of my life. After grooming and rugging her back up, I gave her her dinner... and she choked on her feed. Her vital signs decreased rapidly and I completely freaked out, watching as she coughed up flemmy stuff, and also had it coming out her nose. She went lifeless and was heaving for awhile. Thankfully with some help from a friend (and useless advice from a vet), we managed to settle her down and she bounced back, now that whatever was lodged had moved down through her system. To be on the safe side, I went back out two hours later to check on her and she was looking much brighter. But I've never seen a horse lose its signs of life so quickly, and never want to see it again. It was one of my nightmares almost come true, and I've realised how much I take her for granted.


Tomorrows notes: Making sure Bailey is better, Irina's first ride on Evo, and another grooming session for Honey!

Chelle x