Weekend

It was a great weekend. Weather was fabulous (still a little muddy from rains during the week). Pat visited on Saturday and we spent time helping the yearlings shed their winter coats. Their hair was finally letting go. We managed to remove the mud balls that had collected on their bellies and got lots & lots of hair off. We did'nt swallow too terribly much of it. They are still not camera ready but look so much better.

Sunday I was able to watch Jess ride Tristan. The last time was from the video that I managed to put up on here a few days ago. Mr. Tristan is progressing very nicely. I'm very pleased. Sarah was also there and she was also very pleased with the progress.

Tristan rescued

I thought I'd start with some drama in the headline. :-D My talented, problem solving sister Pat came up with a great idea for Tristan while Sarah's on the mend. We ran the idea past Sarah for her approval first of course. Mr. Tristan has now been placed into the capable hands of the western trainer at Crystal Creek. His first day with Jess will be Monday and the plan is to have him started under saddle with basic skills until Sarah's ready to take over again. Tristan will be kept busy with a job to do and lots of new things to learn and I'll be less harried trying to watch four expecting mares & work with a young stallion in my "spare" time. Pat came up with a solution that's makes everyone a winner!

Exhausting day

Poor Mr. Tristan. I'm now officially in charge of himself for the next 6 or 7 weeks. His trainer Sarah requires some surgery and will have to stay resting and away from horses for at least 6 weeks. So I went to Crystal Creek today and worked Tristan with Sarah's advice and observations before her surgery later in the week. She mentioned that I needed to challenge him some so that he doesn't get too bored. I didn't tell her but I thought Tristan was being challenged just having me lunge him. ;-D

Lunging isn't my thing so to speak I am very weak on having the horse go left because I can't see what the horse is doing. There are few things that I've had trouble with after losing my eye and lunging horses to the left is one of them. (I also tend not to want to stay in one place while lunging but that's a different story altogether).

So I think Tristan may have worked me harder than I worked him today but we got it done. I'm exhausted and am hoping that I'm not too sore tomorrow. It is going to be a very interesting couple of months.

Diane