The Repurposed Horse

Spring has been using Leo's blanket this winter, because he is a hairy feral monster and his girlfriend would help him destroy a blanket in approximately .02 seconds.  It fits her okay, but now that she's not a scrawny mess any more it's not fitting her quite as well as it was at the beginning of the winter - she's grown in pretty much every possible way, and she's just started to get faint rubs from it. I've been putting coconut oil on the rubs, and I'm hoping that helps the hair recover. blurry rub!  Because the end-of-winter blanket sales are rapidly approaching, and because it's fitting Spring quite well otherwise, I'm holding off on buying her a new blanket for now.  Instead, I took to scouring the internet in search of a decent/affordable shoulder guard that would get us through the rest of the season (although since the temperature for the next week is apparently staying above 40 degrees, this may have been unnecessary).  m...

I was super excited about posting today, guys - Assistant Trainer A took a bunch of video during my lesson with Spring, and we jumped the Scary Boxes and did a small course and generally had an excellent time...BUT THEN MY PHONE DIDN'T BACK THEM UP (even though it said it had), and I lost them because technology.  Naturally, the 800 photos I took of my ME boots for a planned upcoming product review are all still there. I am so mad.  Thankfully I still have a fair amount of media from the last month! but of course it saved all the pictures I took once I was on the ground -_- I've been taking weekly private lessons for the last month because Spring seems to prefer to be on her own or in a small group, and the Monday night lesson that I was a part of forever has grown to regularly be 6-7 people large, which is A LOT when you're riding in a relatively small indoor that also contains a shavings mountain .  I'm hoping that as my Thursday afternoon slot becomes a more re...