sunshine

it was a gorgeous day .... regular heatwave outside molly's stable door! but once you were out of the sun, not quite.. but blue skies, no rain, no gales.

So why didn't i get on?

I dunno ... well, i do, it took ages to find some stirrup leathers, having sold the barefoot ones and still waiting for the hm ones to arrive .... remove entire contents of box, give some stuff away, re pack box. the leathers were the mouldy lengths. goodness knows how they got mouldy when everything else in there wasn't (leather head collar, a few other bits and bobs ...). time i'd done that, got half way through getting the mud off, the farrier arrived. and i still had haylage to get. so i thought i'd lunge, just using the BB.

I give up. I will not lunge ordinarily again. in future, if i want to do ground work, she gets two lines to the bit, with both through the roller rings. it's the only thing that works (at least, until i can get her seen by richard maxwell, that's the plan for the summer, he might have some thoughts/solution).

So essentially i shoudl have put it all together and ridden, and not bothered with the lunging. but also it had been a while what with the weather, so i thought it was a better idea.

couldn't loose school as someone else was using the arena as well (also meant i couldn't have the more major debate on the subject we normally do, there wasn't the room and the other person was in fact giving a lesson to a beginner..... )

the haylage involved borrowing landrover from instructor and putting as many bales in as it would take ... 5, given its an SWB. and the drivers seat wouldn't be moved forward, it's been fixed in place, so that was painful... could feel it in my lower back by the time i got back. but kind of her to let me use it (normally her OH delivers for free - it's him i buy from) when you buy off him, but he was away ... so no pick up either.) and by then it was getting on and a LONG time since breakfast as well ...

Simba went out for the first time today .... and went straight UP the canadian maple we have in our garden, I WILL HAVE THAT BIRD he was saying to himself. i left him to it, he came back. but I must try and take a photo. he was out along branches and all sorts... but he does blend in to the tree bark a bit.