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No posts? That's because NOTHING has been happening. I've ridden probably twice over the last six weeks.

I feel awful about it.

Reasons why:

- I've been trimming every single day.
- It has been incredibly wet. Too wet to ride at home before work.
- I went away to college (podiotherapy college!) for my first block for a whole week.
- Andrew and I have been building a granny flat at mum's.

All my plans to send her off to the trainer to start her over fences has gone down the drain. Her fitness is gone. I need to start all over again.

Ugh.

I feel like throwing the towel in until after we move and she is on agistment. I have closed my books for trimming unless I can use it as one of my case studies (i.e. the horse has a pathology). I'm also restricting my trimming hours to make more time for myself, my husband and my horse (and the kitty cats).

Gosh. Life has run away with me. :(

Out and About

I have been taking Allie out on road rides by herself lately. She is going very well and it is so nice to ride a well schooled horse out.

Natalie and Andrew drove around with me the other week and they took this video.

She's a champ. :)

Changes

I'm going to do this in dot points, so much easier.

- we are going to build a house this year. In order to do that though we need to save a shitload of money. So...

- we are moving out into my mother's granny flat. But first, we need to finish off building the granny flat. We need to put about $3-5k into it but we figure we would spend at least four times that amount on rent while not being able to save much. So we will be living there rent free (but paying our bills) while we find land and buy and build. My mother does not live on acerage so...

- the horses are moving to agistment. Gah. This is the bit I really don't like. We are going to go see a place next weekend that has a flood lit arena (no one has agistment available with indoors where I live), large yards and a 30 acre share paddock. Gracie would go in the share paddock (Nat works close so would go see her each day before and/or after work) and Allie would go in an individual yard as she take hours to eat her feeds. Plus I wouldn't be able to get out every single day so they would need to do feeds, rugging, waters, poo picking etc. I have to admit I am looking forward to using the facilities but I will really really miss seeing my pony faces every day. :( But, plus side is she will be in full work. In an arena, with a good surface. IMAGINE.

- I'm selling my impreza. I love that car, but it does not suit my life style anymore. I need a tow vehicle for the float (we borrow Dad's 4by at the moment) and I need a ute for my trimming business. So we are trying to sell my car at the moment and with the money we get from that we will buy a Nissan Navara. I'm pretty excited about finally being able to take my horse some where whenever I like. Plus I can finally set up my ute with all my trimming tools and even have room for keeping boots in stock, which I lack at the moment.

Day 30 - Your Future With Horses

I am so excited for my future with horses. My trimming business is picking up faster than I can keep up with it. I am often trimming 10 - 15 horses a week (this is on top of my full time office job). I have had to make a new rule - no trimming on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays or Sundays!

Allie is going beautifully and is about to start jumping. My riding is getting better and better the more I ride. I am SO EXCITED to finally start eventing! I want to compete in my first event before I turn 30 (which is in April 2014), which is an achievable goal I believe.

I am loving my life right now. I am tired and exhausted and busy but I just love it.

Day 29- A style/trend in tack/riding apparel that you don’t like

Oh - these. Just yuck!!! Who would legit wear red boots and chaps?!?!

Day 28- Helmet or no helmet?

I normally ride with a helmet. The only time I don't wear one is if I am quickly jumping on bareback to walk up from the bottom paddock mounted, or if I take my helmet off quickly to scratch my head. That's it.

For kids, helmet 100% of the time no ifs or buts! Even if you are just putting little Johnny on the tiny pony's back for a three second photo. Even if you are holding the kid. It only takes one tiny shy for the kid to end up under the horse with a crushed skull. I don't care how old or quiet the horse is. I am quite, erm, passionate about it - I even wrote a post about it a while ago.

But adults - it's your head I guess. If you have kids at home that depend on you to take care of them, wear a fricking helmet. If you have no back up plan for your animals if anything happens to you, wear a fricking helmet. If you don't want to end up dead or crippled, wear a fricking helmet. But again, your life, your head, your choice. I won't rant about it to you! :)

Ouch.

My sister (Erin, the middle sister, also known as the non-horsey one) is having her wonky teeth fixed. Her teeth are so crowded that she needs to have 4 teeth removed AFTER using a palatial expander!

What is palatial expander? It's this lovely device (picture below of Erin's) that actually breaks your skull and widens it! Nice! Poor Rin.

Anyway, she has started a blog about it. If you are at all interested to follow her story to beautiful teeth, please add her to your reading list!

http://erinofslytherin.blogspot.com.au/