Wednesday, July 08, 2009

headache...

caused by brining the boot lid of the car down on it... doh. that was outside new client's house at 5 pm.... glasses endedup on floor, amazed they're not broken, and i expect i'll have a lovely bruise in the morning.

partners gone to teh sage gateshead to see Ry Cooder and others (including someone from Buena Vista Social Club) and had it not been for the head i might have gone up to see if i could get myself a ticket...they were like hen's teeth and she'd got one but we couldn't get 2 so that would have ben on spec anyway...but given the head i thought that probably wasn't such a good plan!

did go down to see molly ... took bumbag with treats (she wasn't going to let her friend have them!), caught her no problem and took 1/2 hour to get her down to the gate, using click/treat ...

2 things... whatever she's developing an allergy to (it's probably rain scald, given all the rain we've had) seems to be now over the saddle area - under where the flaps would be ...so i probably definintely shouldn't have ridden last night..

and i'm not totally happy that she is ok moving DOWN hill .... will have to try and watch her when i'm not trying to catch her... it may just be not wanting to be in!

anyway, hopefully that excercise will have helped in terms of getting her in tomorrow..i need her to go back to being caught and brought in easily. and i'd rather do it hte nice way first!

the alternative is take the pressure halter and 12foot line out and work her in the field (there is a flat bit at the top)

5 comments:

trudi said...

ouch...hope it's better soon.

Jean said...

Ouchers. Hope you are feeling better. Some ice on the sore spot, maybe?

Chance had some serious bumps last night. But I think his were bug bites. My Boys wear fly sheets, and I keep an eye on them in this wet weather. It's really easy for them to get the beginnings of rain scald with the kind of weather we've been having.

Danni said...

Oocha, not nice, I hope that doesn't smart too much in the morning. Sounds like you gave yourself a right cracker if your glasses came off.

I hope the rain subsides soon and gives Molly's skin a chance.

Mary Lou said...

You sure you didn't get a concussion? Sometimes the serious effects can happen days later so keep an eye out.

Hen's teeth - now that a new one. I think it must mean that something is rare. Not that I have ever looked in a hen's mouth.

Claire said...

mary lou, you're right about the hen's teeth...

and i appear not to have been concussed and don't even seem to have a bruise yet, which is rather amazing!