Spring 2.0?

Apparently the secret to getting both some rain and a return to spring-like temperatures was just to complain about it, who knew? ;) I'm kidding. Kind of? Haha at any rate, no complaints about the weather now!

Glorious, beautiful soaking rain this weekend. Just what we needed!

Friday was Cinna's turn to work (I'm really digging the alternating days for the girls, it's nice!), and I was pretty excited to try out a new bit for her. Wayyyy back when she first got started under saddle, she did the normal baby bit chomping. I assumed it would get better with time, and to an extent, it has, but she still is more active with the bit than I'm truly comfortable with. Over the winter, I was hoping it was just a sign her teeth were ready to be done, but I took care of that in March and the behavior hasn't changed much. I've tried her in a wide variety of 3-piece snaffles (because I own approximately 13498743534 of them), but I finally decided to expand my search a little. After doing some reading and studying and discussing options with some friends, I finally decided to try her in a Mullen mouth. I had a Mullen mouth eggbutt happy mouth, but I loaned it to my mom, so I kept searching.

I ended up with this -- loose ring, small port for some tongue relief, and it's the blue alloy (reminiscent of the Bombers bits, just without the price tag!). I swapped it out on one of her bridles when it arrived Thursday night, and then Friday morning I tossed her out on the lunge first to make sure she was acclimated to the new piece of metal in her mouth before I climbed aboard. She was perfectly quiet in the mouth on the line (although more than willing to canter, and less than willing to transition back down into the trot, haha), which I found encouraging! We ended up having a really good ride -- she listened well to the bit and seemed markedly more comfortable, although obviously it will take more than one ride to make a full judgement on it.

Maiden voyage rocking these AMAZING floral boots from Stacie!

She also murdered a bell boot in the last 5 minutes of the ride when I was letting her hack out in the yard. It was on it's last legs anyway, but RIP fluffy boot!

The face of an innocent pony who did not mean to murder said boot! ;)

As I mentioned in Friday's post, I also got to attend a PEMF demo on Friday night hosted by my GMO. It was really awesome! I, of course, volunteered to be "pulsed", so I got to sit in the chair and it was definitely an interesting feeling. Not only did I sit in the human chair for a while, but then when the presenter pulled out the big loops to use on a horse, I also held them for a bit, hoping to see if it made a different for the residual soreness in my thumb -- and it did! Someone more local to me recently got a machine, so we'll see if that makes an appearance in any future posts ;)

A picture from the demo -- isn't he just about the cutest thing you've ever seen? I wanted to put him in my pocket and take him home <3

I also had a SUPER busy weekend, so more to talk about there, but I think I'll save that for tomorrow! Did you have a pleasant, horse-filled weekend? Have you ever had any personal experience with PEMF?