Today was A DAY! Good gravy!
I had a migraine last night and didn't sleep great. Then I had to get up early because they were coming to fix my windshield. So I got up at 730 to be ready for a potential 8 am arrival. They called at 8:15 or so and said they'd be there around 9:30. Perfect... so then I messaged Kelli because we were supposed to meet here and ride and do bridle and bit fittings and adjust/acupuncture/shockwave marvin... and she said she wasn't feeling great, her husband wasn't leaving for out of town yet, etc, etc... So I mentioned that we could ride at Ashland instead if she could be flexible. So we made plans... My plan was to ride Funny when the windshield people arrived because it said 1-1.5 hrs... Well, then when he arrived.. he said 45 min to an hour. So that sort of made it too tight to fit in a ride. So Kelli and I recalibrated. Then Mike wanted me to take him to pick up his Mustang... but then told me I could drive him later tonight and he would just leave his car there. So phew for that! So I caught up on some things in the house. Then the windshield called me out there and basically... they broke my car. Ha! In the process of replacing the windshield they broke a piece on the frame that required a bodywork shop to fix. Which, to their credit, will NOT cost me anything else. BUT... that meant a delay... they had to tow my car to the body shop... it took awhile to figure out... Good grief! So Kelli and I tried to recalibrate yet again. I was able to leave while the guy was finishing up and prepping my car for towing... so I hopped on Funny. Then luckily, we were almost done but still at the arena when the tow truck came and he didn't need me. So we watched Pistol get towed away as he drove by past the arena. Then, I got her untacked and had just enough time to make some yogurt before grabbing Dan to head to Ashland.
At this point I was pulling in when I was supposed to be starting our ride... but oh well. I got there and Kelli had Marvin at the trailer still tacked up. I told her that we could go hack if she wanted, or if she was tired of waiting I could adjust him and then go ride while she went home. She said he felt so awful she barely rode, so... rather than make him continue to feel awful on the trails, or have her walk the whole way... we just adjusted Marvin first. Dan hung out and ate hay. He was a good boy. I left nothing but the hay in his reach. ;) After he ate my phone yesterday!
After I had finished up with Marvin I did a quick groom and threw the bareback pad on and Dan and I were off!
We had a nice ride. COLD but nice. There was a small rain storm that blew in after we got home and it brought a chill to our ride. It was COLD! And a gray day. But we had a good ride. Lots of snacking. Ha ha. But we did some leg yields a few steps here and there and even a few steps of shoulder in and haunches in. We also found some logs to step over. He was cheating in the beginning and stepping over with his left front first, so that his right front just kind of followed. But by the end of our ride, I managed to get him to step over with his right front first. We also ended up in the water complex and did two circles each direction and then marched straight up the hill!
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