Bringing up Baby: Crazy weather, crazy hormones, crazy horse

Oh boy.... hormones are awful! Add in not sleeping well for a few weeks now... I mean, I'm in bed for 7 hours, but I think I've been waking up at least 10 times. And then bad weather. And not riding. I was crabby and cranky and just... mad!!! I'm mad at the world... sad about everything... depressed... irritated... ugh... And there was soooo much rain so the pastures are disasters... my topsoil has washed away... there's no grass... mud everywhere... soupy soggy mess!

So I ran errands this morning... stuff I needed to do desperately. And when I finished, it was hot out. Like... humid and muggy and hot. Ugh, so when I got home, I pulled the sheets off. The rain had stopped and it was supposed to stay in the mid to upper 60's even with the rain. They probably could have stayed in no fill sheets but all but Fleck had 100 grams on. Luckily they were mostly dry by this point, which was my tactic earlier. It's so humid the whole barn aisle is wet, so I figured hanging soaking wet sheets in the barn would not get them dry. I got everyone's pulled by Lyrics, who was walking away from me. I'm guessing she felt my irritation at the world...or maybe she thought I was going to go ride... I don't know. But she walked away from me and pissed me off more. I put the other blankets back and then went back out to try again and she started walking away again. Oooooohhhh mare, you're gonna sweat then!! But the others had migrated up there too. I gave it one more shot and started walking and as I did... Dan looked at me, turned around, stared at me with pricked ears and then started walking to me. Awwww buddy.... I love you too. I sooooo needed that! We snuggled for a little bit.. and then I went and got Lyric's blanket off. I snuggled with Dan again. Good boy!

After I put the groceries away Mike and I went for lunch. He wanted chick-fil-a and I could use a peppermint shake. Of course he picked the alcovy road CFA, which... I would have too. It's much less crowded and easier to get in and out of. But... they didn't have peppermint shakes... "But the one on 278 still does". Sigh. Of course. Oh well.

After lunch it was still pretty warm out and the sun was trying to come out. So screw it... Dan was at the gate so I walked up and caught him and threw the bareback pad on and we went for a hack around the neighborhood. He started out at a good pace but he almost felt lame at the walk. And he was definitely dragging his toes at times. We got to the lake and it was high and there was a big current going to the culvert! Ahhh that's why that is there! Dan wasn't scared at all and wanted to investigate. Good boy! But then he started to get a little wired after that. We turned left onto the circle and there was a little yorkie in the fence barking at us. Dan acted scared and tried to turn and head back. Dude!!! It's a yorkie... no bigger than a squirrel! Ha ha. We managed to get past it and then carried on. We ran into Brooke in her driveway and chatted briefly but Dan was being wiggly and fussy and started to get amped up, so I headed on. And then he was all amped up. He was trying to jig and canter home. Silly!!! It is WAY too slick to do that nonsense. He managed to hold it together and other than a few moments, he even settled and stopped being inverted. But then when we got back to the lake area something rustled in the woods and he spun and almost lost me! Luckily we were in the grass, and up on top of the hill so it wasn't quite so soft and squishy and we weren't on the concrete, so he didn't slide. But he spun quick enough that the momentum almost slung me past the point of saving. Thankfully, I saved it! And then he was fine the rest of the way home. Jeepers!! Having girlfriends has sort of ruined your trail riding at home skills sir!

But I do feel better. I adore him. Even if this is all we get to do... he's still fun doing that with. But, I'm still praying fervently that God works a miracle and lets us do other fun things too.