Well its been a miserable last couple of months, with all the aftershocks and moving locations for work, my half hour drive now takes me over an hour, so there goes riding after work. Jim managed to injure his leg in the new fencing, straight down to the tendon. Thats incurred a massive vet bill, antibotics, xrays, weekly bandage changes, didn't seem to be improving for a very long time however on Friday last week, he finally got his bandage off. Wound has swelled up like a golf ball, as has leg, but he's walking on it, and hopefully life will become easier. All going well we're on the home stretch anyway, just another 4 weeks of paddock rest.
I've not done much riding, just no motivation, these aftershocks have kicked my butt, I'm tired, I'm grumpy and got a cold and life is just getting me down. I'll snap out of it soon enough but isn't it funny how your mind and body just says enough.
I've done a road ride with Alise, a day at Melton Park with Amanda and thats been about it. I went out and watched Tracy at Canty Dressage on the weekend, the rest of the time was spent doing housework or catching up doing the horses.
Inlaws are looking at moving out next month, lets hope builders keep the pace up then. Will be strange to have the house to ourselves after all this time. However Shan has already put her orders in for what she wants me to cook when they've moved out.
Anyway, on a horsie note, Rat has been practicing his right canter lead over a jump, that gives me it virtually every time, however on Sunday, we practiced without the jump, took 5 attempts and we got it, imagine my surrpise, had to check using our shadow we had it right, anyway, another 5 attempts after this and we got it every single time, Wahoo! Finally something went right.
