Holding Pattern

 I'll start with the most impactful news first - I was hoping to take B over to the vet today, but my day off work got lost in paperwork and was not approved in a timely fashion despite many reminders (telling me it's OK to go as of this morning didn't really cut it). We scheduled everything around today, so I can't get away again for at least another 10 days. I'm beyond disappointed and upset (and I need a new job - anyone got any connections hiring remote GIS/data analysts?). 10 days puts us past her cycle, so we'd be timing more like three weeks to a month from now, and honestly I'm just kind of done. I think I'm a very patient and determined person, but I've reached the point where I just want to try again next year when the universe is a bit kinder...there's some behind the scenes stuff going on with an inlaws' health needs where me going away to take a pony to the vet for a non emergency would probably make me an awful human. I mean, I'd do some pretty sketchy stuff for baby ponies, but well...adulting is hard. I'm so emotionally invested in this whole thing I'm feeling really down about it and kind of regretting blogging about it before she was in foal, to be honest.

Bridget is her normal self. I've had a couple of nice rides this past week. She was coughing a little earlier in the week, but I upped her antihistamines and subbed in more soaked hay cubes and we seem OK again - yesterday she coughed once at the beginning, then was fine and full of energy. I'm reintroducing some small gymnastic exercises and she's pretty happy about that. I'd love for my new xc vest to see some use this summer should we not have a pregnant pony.

I finally put them on the trailer and went for a drive. I was being a bit silly about wanting it to stay looking new so I kept procrastinating. They of course pooped everywhere and wiped green hay slime all over it, so RIP shiny new trailer, welcome used trailer. I'm itching to wash away the evidence. The first one of them to kick it or break anything is for sale though. (kidding...sort of  :)

Smearing green goo everywhere lol

Sophie was absolutely fantastic. Her trailering experience has been fairly limited so I was expecting to possibly need to give her a refresh and some encouragement. Nope, she popped right on, travelled just fine, happily stood tied while I rode B, left calmly when it was her turn, and even went in first for the drive home. Sophie, being all grown up and lending credence to G's theory that she's amazing and better than a Bridget foal anyway. (too soon, G, too soon)

I have us signed up for some lessons and clinics in June (we were on hold due to Covid restrictions the past couple of months) which I'm really looking forward to.

Future truck and trailer parking area. Also, new barn doors still pending.

In pony property updates, it was a slower week. I had a dump truck of road base delivered to make a parking spot for the trailer and my old truck next to the barn. Then I got the new driveway access put in, and puttered away planting grass seed, fencing, and the tack room wall and flooring. I'm glad I'm not under any strict time lines - there's a ton of work there waiting for me and while I enjoy it, it is a bit overwhelming to consider how many hours I have put in and how many I probably have left before the horses can move back in.

Look, a culvert and an access point! Driving on to the property without four wheeling through a ditch should have probably been Step 1.