Equestrian Priorities

Saturday morning, our little part of the world was hit with some fairly crazy weather warnings and storm path predictions.

With T minus 4 hours until predicted landfall in our town, my options were:

1. Stay inside and get the flashlights and candles ready

2. Venture out for last minute food, gas, and emergency supplies

3. Fit in one last ride before the weekend went haywire

You can guess what I chose. 

And..what everyone else riding here chose too...this is a small barn and this is maybe half the cars in the parking lot lol

I had a not so great ride, but no regrets about my life choices. Particularly since although the storm did hit us directly, it was way less destructive than forecasted and I only needed to survive about 8 hours without power. Even less than the storm a few days before!

A trip to the barn on Sunday showed a couple of the big trees in the paddock were blown over, but beyond a couple of squished fences, everything there survived just fine. In fact, rather than squished fences, lets look at it as gaining a few xc logs to jump ;)

My ride on Sunday was also not the greatest, Midge was on a storm fueled rampage and was very naughty. I look forward to dressage lesson boot camp tonight!

Survived being in the mouth of the angry dragon storm; possibly because Midge absorbed the anger