tuesday was a blip

in that the weather is now somewhat cold and snowy. to be fair, no where near as bad as in other places (new jersey, for instance) but too bad for any of us to want to do anything... the only consolation is that the mud is frozen.

apparently, we can blame the jet stream....

5 minutes

in hand

still a very faint glimmer of light, no howling gale, no rain, and the temperature got up to 8 C.  so that was motivational (thinking ahead to when we can do more) to do some in hand, only 5 minutes but think i got a shoulder in left.

Gaynor's hoping it doesn't snow tomorrow; the forecast isn't looking good for her!

finally

a nice day decent weather and no injuries to either of us (well, not strictly true, he had a lump on his jaw that wasn't troubling him and was missed by the bridle...)

in hand and lunging

and proved again to the satisfaction of all that

1. i can lunge any other horse but mine
2. Monfils will lunge for anyone but me
3. therefore, it's not my technique

and turns out i'm not alone in that, someone else i know has the same problem (her horse will lunge for men ...)

a three day jaunt

to taunton (the other end of the country) for my niece's wedding ....an enjoyable wedding, and the weather was good so they could do photos outside.  Apparently i missed nothing weather wise up here and G wasn't able to ride M at all....

fence down...

when i got to the yard this afternoon, M was in....as were all the geldings, it transpired. the field fence is down at the bottom of the hill.  the estate workers had all gone home, of course (if they were even in, who knows) and no one had been able to get hold of YM at that point.

and M was still covered in very wet soggy mud - all up the side of his neck etc.  apparently the last thing he did before being brought in was roll!

euch.

so i fed him, put more haylage up, and came away again...

cold winter break

i rode today, yay, and did something right as my hip did NOT hurt when i got off.. thought it was going to , but didn't.

went out round the 20 acre late on with one of the others, who unexpectedly decided to ride having not planned to...

i didn't think it was safe to ride yesterday, frost all over which never really let up on the ground horses were slipping and even arena was frozen (well, half frozen by the afternoon, the sun having unfrozen one half of it).

not as much riding done as i'd planned for the holiday, but that's often the way in the winter....

a success

for the first time ever, i got Monfils to trot on the lunge.  was a bit of a battle, but did it. i was well pleased and told him so.

happy christmas all...