Yesterday, J and I went to lunch.  Of course we still had on riding pants and boots.

The waitress asked us if we ride every day.

“yes”.

Is that your job?

“yes”.

:-)

It was cold today.  Not as cold as my blogger friend Beth but it was cold enough to be un-motivating.  I think it was 28 and windy as all heck.  I HATE riding in the cold.

So in Ami news, we changed his turn-out.  He is gonna get fed in the pasture each meal.  So today I wanted to see how he would react and he was awesome.  I blanketed him in the pasture, threw him 3 thick flakes of hay, and then gave him his grain.  He was completely at peace.  I hope this puts him at ease.

Things are going well otherwise.

was completely un-motivated at the barn today.

It was cold and windy and I was tired.  So not much accomplished.  I did a few chores and then I left early.

Justine and I changed Ami’s bandage and he was on stall rest today again.   Have to figure out how to get him to stop kicking the wall or how to protect his hocks.

I hand walked him around.  He is good.  he’s big but he doesn’t step all over you.

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I picked up cook’s blanket yesterday.  had it professionally cleaned.  made me sad.  I packed it away with the rest of her things.  I talked to my brother briefly about it and I don’t think he still understands the depth or reasoning of my grief.  I think one of the important lessons I learned from this was that Grief is not something you determine for people.  Everyone has a given right to decide how, how long, and to what extent they will grieve for a loss.  I can blog every single day, I LOVE THAT MARE, and it’s ok.

I do love that mare.

Today was my day off… well sort of. I just had to go in for a few minutes, since the boys were out of town, to give a horse meds and lunge the horse quickly. 20 minutes tops.

Then I found out that the second day I have Ami… he’s due for shoes. Gotta meet the farrier at 9am. It’s a farrier I don’t know.

Ok, this may take an hour. Still no big deal. Still looking forward to my day off and perhaps taking a well deserved nap.

I get to the barn, pull out Ami and notice some blood on his leg. I sort of rub it off and look at his leg…. nothing. Um, ok. As I put him in cross ties, I notice more fresh blood on his leg. Hm. It’s coming from somewhere. Turns out the leg I’m looking at DOESN’T have the scrape. The blood I see is cast-off from the gaping hole in his OTHER leg.

Nice.

He had kicked the wall in his stall (apparently he does this as aggression to other horses over the wall) and gave himself a nice lack of SKIN over his hock. He was awesome for treatment (except the cold hosing. We didn’t get very far with that.). It’s bandaged and vet taped. He’s on stall rest.

Is this what owning a gelding is like? :-)

BOYS!

BTW, never got a nap.

Rachel:  “He better hope he’s photogenic”

For the 2nd time in my life, I am a horse owner.

“Un Ami”

Barn name: Ami

Breed: Dutch Warmblood

Sire: Contango

Height: 17 .1 HH

Year: 2001 (6 years old!)

then it gets cold.

I pray for a good day.  I  woke up early because I couldn’t sleep.