Catching Up

First of all, thank you all for the support and sympathy on my last post. Your words brought me to tears, in a good way, and I had to hide in the bathroom at work because despite there being lots of bad things in the world, there sure are a lot of good things, too. And you guys are the top of that list.  

Things have been moving apace here at the farm. The first week of December we said goodbye to Bizzy. When hubby first declared we'd be moving next summer (there may be some changes there, but holding my cards until I'm sure) I reached out to CANTER, where I got her, and asked if they could help me re-home her or how to best go about finding her a new landing place. CANTER came through in a spectacular way, and Bizzy now resides at a farm in VA with a new job as a nursemare. I think she will do fantastically, and the chore and hay stress lightening now that I have one less horse to feed and care for has been nice (if bittersweet). She was kind of uncommonly mean to Bailey, and tried to kick her in the face in passing when Bailey was drinking right before her departure, so I was less sad to see her go than I could have been. 

I broke the tractor (aka blew the hydraulic fluid. Again) but a) fixed it, without having to ask Hubby for help/making him aware and b) also figured out why it's blown all of it's hydraulic fluid like 3 times now and can fix the issue. The problem being that I have to wait for the plug to shift because I stupidly put it back in without the recommended solution. Whoops. Hoping I can fix the issue this weekend. 

I've been working that side gig job and doing some photo work, including at a saddle fitting event that I brought Arya to. I was nervous leaving Bailey home alone, as this was a week and a half after Bizzy left, but she survived just fine without her sister, though she whinnied most piteously when we returned and paced the gate as soon as she saw us. Arya had been off and on good and iffy, and had a really bad day (aka she reared, but shockingly went back to work just fine, and ended the ride hacking around the pasture on the buckle) the day before the clinic, so I tried really hard to keep a lid on it when I did my riding portion of the saddle fit clinic. I brought both dressage saddles and while I was there for free, because #eventphotog, I didn't feel like I got a lot out of the experience. Arya did, however, not totally try to murder me while at the nice heated barn, and everyone thought she was very pretty. I was impressed that she didn't stall walk and actually took a nap while she waited for me to be done, despite being tucked into a corner stall with no other horses nearby. The fitters came to the conclusion that neither of my dressage saddles fit Arya particularly well, but I guess I don't 100% believe that the fit is as bad as they seemed to think. I am going to go back to riding in the jump saddle on Arya exclusively for a while either way as we know that fits her better than anything else.

I've started her back on Ulcer meds, as she seems to be having problems again, but I'll save that for another post - I've got a few stacked up that I've partially summarized into this one, so hopefully you'll forgive this wall of text! I've figured out how to blog at work (Yay!) but I can't include media except by editing posts on my phone (boo!) which sucks as Blogger no longer has an ap. Perhaps its time for a new platform? Idk. I do love blogger.