2021 recap
I’m not linking to any posts here, mostly because I still can’t go back and read them. The first quarter of the year was a lot of barn stress. I didn’t write about it, and I didn’t really acknowledge it … Continue reading →
Yearly Archives: 2021
Rehab: tack walking and unpacking anxiety
If I’m counting right, tomorrow marks ten weeks from surgery. Polly continues to be a generally good sport about all this; periodically we have full dragon days where we walk and I swear at her as she goes vertical and … Continue reading →
Rehab walks, five weeks out
We are officially at five weeks post-surgery. Sutures were removed 10 days out and looked fabulous, with lots of compliments from local vet. That’s a super boring update, but boring is good. The plan is to do 6 weeks of … Continue reading →
Stifle surgery
The west coast got hit with a bit of a storm this last weekend. I hauled north Friday morning in the dark and the rain, loaded up Polly, and headed off to the vet clinic with her trainer. We were … Continue reading →
Polly: Next Steps
My partner and I drove on up for Polly’s vet visit this week. I understood that this was going to be an assessment under saddle and likely blocking the stifles for better diagnostics. And – indeed. Recall that Polly has … Continue reading →
Gratitude – or, what went well and what I can learn from
I guess this is an odd post to write while still firmly in depression, but so it goes. A lot of things went right. Good: I had a truck and a trailer. I took the truck to the barn, and … Continue reading →
Polly update
Polly headed off to the trainer’s in mid July. First it was stupid hot, then the nearby fires meant they weren’t working them so much due to smoke, all this to say – it’s been slower than we thought it … Continue reading →
Best pony, gone too soon
I was going to write things about how Fetti and I had a lovely hill ride on Sunday. We’d started playing with the Equicore bands. We were starting up very low-key interval conditioning to bring her fitness back this winter. … Continue reading →
Moved and settled in, the very belated update
We’ve been at New Barn for two and a half months now. The move was uneventful; grateful for good friends who heard I was doing my first haul with horses to New Barn and said “that’s silly, we’ll take the … Continue reading →
Barn Hunt
I am incredibly lucky in a few ways. First, I know that if a boarding situation doesn’t work out, I have a good friend who could take both my mares at her house. It wouldn’t be ideal long-term, but it … Continue reading →