Not Down with the Sickness

The sickness is gone! Yipee! After a grueling week of stomach issues, all is finally well with both me and Vinny. YES!

I did get a ride in on Friday and frankly I think it helped me get better. I like to think that I was able to sweat out some of the nastiness. I rode for about a half hour, just worked mainly on our normal things, and then popped him over a cross rail a couple times. He’s such a good boy .

Saturday I woke up feeling great. I showed up in the AM for my shift at the barn, but apparently I got the shift wrong and was supposed to be there for the PM feed. Ah, oh well, no biggie. Went home for a couple hours, then met a couple girls back out there to go on a trail ride.

Now if you’ve read my previous posts about Vinny and trails, you know he’s super out there. Of course as soon as I talk up my boy to the gals, he’s a brat. I’m pretty sure it was only because we were with two others. Other than that I’m not sure why he would act up like he did. Any ideas?

He took off with me at least five times and was tossing his head pretty much the whole time. My fingers were on fire at the end of the ride. It was not fun, and quite the disappointment.

When we got back home I cantered him around the outdoor a few laps trying to get the sassiness out. But, as suspected, as soon as we were home he was back to normal. Ughh.

I went back home for a little and then back out at 1630 to do the feed with one of the barn moms, AW.

I must say I just love this ‘job’. All it is is feeding, watering, sweeping, mixing grain for the next AM etc, but I get such satisfaction out of it and am never bored. Now if only they paid like my office job!

Sunday was breakfast with some friends, got Mitzy washed, made chili and chilled out with the bestie for a little.

Tonight hopefully is lesson night, I believe I’m going on three weeks without instruction.. ahh!!! Must fix sloppiness now!

 

Of course now I have mucho blog posts to catch up on, since I was out of commish all last week. Can't wait to read them all!