Henry is he BEST!

Spoiler... Henry was pretty awesome, I rode well and we had fun!!

I packed as much of the trailer as I could the day/night before - basically everything but the cooler and myself with part of my show clothes on.

Also hubby rigged my boots so I was armed with my old and new boots.. the new ones were getting broke in BUT 3 days isn't quite enough to make them my old favs lol. Thankfully the old boots held up and I have more time to make the new boots my fav old boots :)

That face lol!!

We started with a pleasure class to get in the ring and march around some before the over fence classes started. Henry was great and we got a second. Trainer said it was pretty dead even for the lady who won and me. 

Warm up went well... and they opened the cards for the 2'6 classes. The plan was to do the three 2'6 classes, 2 under saddle classes and then see how things were going to decide if I wanted to stay for the 2'9/3'...

There were quite a lot of riders in the 2'6, thankfully we got in the early bunch and were able to do all three rounds pretty close together. I actually was the first person to go over fence- we all know I don't like waiting lol!!

I ended up 2nd in the warm up round, 1st in the low open hunters and 4th in the low child/adult hunters.

Then I did two under saddle classes and got 1st in the open and 4th in the child/adult.

Henry and I both were pooped, he was great and I decided to end on that. I told trainer that next time i want to go for the whole weekend so we can school Friday and then show the bigger stuff Saturday and Sunday.. hopefully she agrees next time!

Big thanks to Erica for being my road dog and groom.. also to Kat for the pictures!

Once A Month Updates?

Myabe this will be the new norm?

Hahaha... not good so sorry!

Henry and I are headed to a show Sunday- woot!

Two jump lessons since Henry has been A-ok from his foot and we are off to a show lol. Totally a good idea right?

I am hoping we can both keep it together and not make fools of ourselves ha!

My tall boots zipper broke and three times to the cobbler with no help (and over $100 later) still no luck. I ended up ordering a pair of Ariats and I have 3 days to break them in- ugh!

Henry and Sonny begging for treats

Mane pulled and pre pre show bath done... gotta finish clipping him and get another hack or two in. Oh and pick out me coolest outfit because it's going to be hoooooot!

Grayson is doing great as well. Took him to an little western event and he did great, took everything in stride!

He still feels so green but he's three.. I have to keep telling myself that.

I gave him a super detailed bath.. he didn't love me in the process but put up with it and looked so cute after!! Of course he rolled once I put him back in his pasture boo! Thankfully I waited till he was dry to put him back and I got a picture lol!

Wooooooops

This ranch and my girls are taking all of my time!!! Not that I don't sit at a desk all day, I don't have time to blog ha!!

Updates...

The biggest is that we got a pony- B is SO excited and LOVES Sonny SO much! He's an old (like 28 ish) hunter pony. We are working on steering and even trotting a bit... he knows where the out gate is and where I am lol!!

Addi loves Sonny too and he is perfect for her as well :)

Henry and I are plugging along... his foot finally seems a ok where he stepped on the clip and no infection happened- yahoooooo!

We tried a pad with the frog cut out and he got a bruise on the back of his frog/heal so shoer came out today and put a full pad back on- hoping he feel back to 100% tonight - Please Henry I am ready to go take a lesson and maybe get to a show this season!!!

We both like to have a job and are ready to get back to the regular scheduled program :-P

Grayson is doing well. I've put a few more rides on him... he just needs lot of horse just loping around and I hope to have my chill western pony I dreamed of!

Dreaming ... impatiently waiting...

Henry's foot is healing well... shoer said probably another week and a half or two till we should be all good to start back to normal riding.

Thanks Kat for the pics!!! 

He said I can start working him (lunging as long as he looks comfortable) more then hand walking as long as I make sure that no dirt gets in his foot- it's wrapped 24/7 right now and Henry is a professional as wearing through it extremely fast.... what should last 3 days lasts us 24 hours lol. SOOOO needless to say I am a professional foot wrapper now - not sure if I should be proud of that!

So ready to be back doing this ... I am impatiently waiting ha!

G $

Grayson has been a doll lately.. He is chilling big time and just being a really good guy!

His voice commands in the round pen are like 85% ... pretty good for only about 6 round pen sessions.

He has been good under saddle- he knows where the gate is so working him by the gate and resting away from the gate is the key right now. Still working on that right lead- he wants to be a rope horse - left lead only lol!!

I stole a horse..

Ok well not really but kinda... I took one of my sisters 5 year olds who she left behind to ride since Henry is letting his foot heal.

Meet Iggy (Funny Cash Money)... she's 5, about 14 h and pretty stinken fun to ride. I've ridden her a bunch before but never english so we have been exploring that.

We affectionately call her Ignasty because well on the ground she can be a bit nasty, but under saddle she is a doll. Just stay away from her hind end or make sure you are holding her be nice stick (aka whip). The only thing we can think of is that someone handled her poorly as a youngster because we know who broke her and he got her like that.

Anywho I plan to trailer her over Saturday to take a lesson with the Saturday crew.. should be fun!!

Iggy and Grayson will be my riding focus right now ...

#henrysnotdaman

Well Henry is officially a PITA ... shoes were finally staying on and I even had a really good ride on him... then BAM he pulled his right front again, fixed it and then UGH pulled it half off and stepped on the clip Sunday Night :(

Frantic picture text I sent to my shoer :(

Fail Henry Fail ...

So now I am keeping that clean and wrapped for a week or two till it heals and then we are back to the grind- trying to get to a stinken show! I was supposed to go to one this weekend and they even had a derby I was going to do but Henry had other plans whaaaaaa!

He isn't loving being in the stall but he is being relatively good all things considered.

Just ready for this guy to be back feeling 100% 

Gray Gray

The good...

Never get sick of the sunsets!

Look at how cute he is and how grown up he looks!!

The bad...

He go sprayed by a skunk.. yes you read that right my horse got sprayed by a skunk!! I go between laughing and confused!

Anywho many boxes of baking soda and dawn soap and he is back to normal.

Since he has been hone I've just been kind of letting him chill (he was a bit sensitive or hiped up I guess you could say).

The bane of my existence.. shoes!

So the last two weeks, Henry hasn't been able to keep his shoes on.

He loves to work so it isn't to get out of work- he's actually been quite a pain because he misses the work.

I can't wait to get back on him and RIDE and take a lesson!!

The plan is to show on July 2nd so I need to get this party going! Henry we have some big plans- keep those shoes on buddy!!

Happy thoughts that these shoes stay on and we have a good ride tomorrow!!!

MY Barn Tour- eek!

Here goes nothing!

Arena

Back possible second arena and hay barn being built on the left by the trees 

giant - probably 4 or acre pasture

Front Medium pasture

Here is a look straight back when I'm walking out... arena and med pasture to the left, barn right in the front and small pasure right there where you see Henry, hay barn (being built) and possible second area behind the barn and really large pasture to the right. 

small pasture view from the barn

barn- 6 stall all with pastures, overhangs on both sides

Hay in middle stall

Henrys stall

One side of paddocks 

Hay and shavings

Once the hay barn is built- I will feed out the hay in the barn and then i'll be able to reclaim the stalls for horses  :)

Quad and arena drag

Tack Room

Inside of the tack room

Wash rack

So this is after LOTS of clean up... it's still a work in progress and we are slowly chipping away at it. I will have to do a post on the hay barn- hubby has been taking pics as they go so thats cool. Our first big DIY project! Woot!