Always Shenanigans

Well hopefully you’re getting your goat fix on my Instagram, because my blog needs to get back to horses in the few spare minutes I can scratch together to write (although I will admit the goats are a little cute – I still think they’d be cuter in someone else’s yard!). 

The girls have a temporary boyfriend.....

Last week before the great goat invasion, I managed to get Ruby out two nights in a row for good hacks. The weather was perfect, we had good company, and we did so much trotting! I don’t have access to a lot of trails in terms of distance riding, so my options are limited to hauling out (not really feasible on weeknights with my schedule and kind of time consuming on weekends), or just using the same few trails built together in different loops to increase the distance. What I DO love about my current trail access is the nice mix of hills, footing types, creek crossings, and the big fields to canter in! 

The woods smelled HEAVENLY!

Both nights Ruby worked up a light sweat, but wasn’t hot or breathing hard coming back in. I tried to mix up the walking and trotting to teeter on the edge of what she’s fit for while also pushing a little so we can keep building the fitness. I also have to manage to fit all this into not very much available free time for training, so we’ll see how things go as she gets (hopefully) fitter this spring). 

Random barn cat photo.

And no entry is complete without a photo of at least one of my teeny dogs.

Unfortunately, I didn’t pay enough attention to using my tracking app, so I’m still not sure on distance/mph. Plus, the app I currently use tracks in km instead of miles, which I find horrifically annoying. Anyone out there have a suggestion for a free app that would track my distance and MPH? I don’t think I need to invest in anything fancy while we’re just toying with the idea (shhhhh don’t look at my endurance saddle and hackamore, haha), but surely there is a free app out there that would help give me an idea of how far and how fast we’re going? I feel like I’ve seen some mentions of Endomoto, is that a good one to use? 

Grazing ponies are excited for spring!

Everyone got the weekend off between donating most of my day to photographing at our GMO’s spring show (which will hopefully pay off with selling a few photos to offset my time there -- can you say, Rolex shopping money?) and then spending time with my family for Easter. Monday I had my GMO meeting in the evening, so no time to ride then either, boo.

I only managed to take one photo on Easter -- this is me with my "baby" cousin. I swear I am completely normal sized, he is just insanely tall.

Tuesday I got back in the saddle for an extremely fun trail ride with several other boarders from my barn. Everyone else was on stock horses in western saddles, so I made Ruby ride in the back of the pack for most of the trip (which she was unamused by) -- she made her feelings about that very well known when I finally let her stretch her legs a little in the hay field. 

 

I should have gone to the barn last night too, but DH was off taking a proctored final and I've been battling insomnia (that basically makes me tired all day) so I did chores, and then vegged out on the couch alternating between folding laundry and packing for ROLEX. I have a feeling content will be a little light here through the end of the month (although who am I kidding, when is the content not light? haha) while I try to wrap everything up and then head to Kentucky!