Tweaking Horse

Well, I think the grain my horse is on is making her act like a tweaker!   My trainer friend Dana said she has seen horses change drastically from tweaker to normal after they have been taken off of grain.  I started bulking up the fat content in her grain and had her on LMF Performance because she works a solid 4 days a week.  I talked to the nutritionist from LMF today (I also met him after the amazing nutrition class he did at our PNER conference in Portland in January.) He said to try her on Gentle Balance LMF along with rice bran, alfalfa pellets and beet pulp, and to call him in a week to tell me how she is doing.  I will be sure to keep all of you updated.  She was such a fruit cake with her spooking today, I nearly came off 3 times!  Ridiculous!  My little Aussie coughed behind us as we trotted along the trail today and she came unglued.  Like I said...tweaker.

It was a GLORIOUS spring day!!  So excited to be conditioning when it is so beautiful outside.  It was 65 degrees today, I was wearing a t-shirt and SWEATING.  This is when I LOVE my sport.  Even with a spooky pony! :-)

Here we are at the Spindrift crossing today, I haven't filmed this section in a long while.  When we crossed it in January it was BONE dry.  It is absolutely AMAZING what a little rain will do...

We got a lot of work done today.  We are starting to motor along a little faster, and she had some good sweat on her today.

We were on our way back when I could hear horses galloping and ladies laughing.  It sounded like a fun time, I wish I could go like that, but for sure my horse would leap sideways at some mythical creature that threatened to eat her and I would be on the ground.  I saw that  it was my friend Tina, and another girl I knew.  Then I saw my friend Muree and Susan come around the corner too.  We got to sit and chat for a bit.  Pretty cool to run into some of my favorite horse people out in the woods.

 

Muree took a picture of me on Renata.  That's rare.  You won't get to see a photo very often of me riding. :-)  Thanks Muree!

 

After we got home, I had to clean stalls and a paddock.  No one gets to hear about the not so fun part of horses.  Oh, wait...yes they do.  That is 85% of it!!  My kids know it well, I am sure they will never own a horse.  While I was finishing up, my horse decided to find the muddiest spot to roll in...RIGHT NEXT TO THE FENCE.  Stinking horse.  Got her legs caught in the wire and ripped the fence apart.

                                                 Muddy Nata girl.

 

Broken fence.   Dannelle's husband Jake helped me fix it, so I could get home to my family.

It looked much better when we fixed it.  Silly horses, isn't it ALWAYS something???

 

My husband was a rockstar and threw the chicken I had out thawing into the oven with barbeque sauce and made some rice.  I love that man.

 

Hope all of everyone else's days was as amazing as mine. *Minus spooking and tweaking horses* ;-)