another (mostly) photo update

 Things are still just coasting along over here. There have been no big exciting 'I should write a blog post about that!' moments, but also there has been a ton of incremental positive progress worth documenting for myself.

Also playful baby ponies. They play, they eat, and they sleep. And I'm still obsessed with them and they're huge time wasters.

Every second day, I try to have them do one grown up thing. Reggie is still very opinionated about grooming, but it's getting better every time. His 'little' brother is way easier, but I'm careful to give him his own time too - I feel like he's just as sensitive, he just internalizes it a lot more than this guy.

Buck is about 2 inches shorter and already 50 pounds heavier than Reggie. I think they're supposed to end up in the same 14.3-15hh ish height range but I have a funny feeling he's going to be twice the width :)

I still feel like I'm missing out and falling behind on all the riding goals I have. Part of me wants to beat myself up for not trying harder to get out there and make it happen. This is always the time of year where I'm more susceptible to that. In the spring and summer I'm much busier and more practical about what I can or can't prioritize. 

I thought colts would like toys to play with. Not so much. But no prizes for guessing who loves to play and now has a pet yoga ball.

But, I have been riding. And yes, we're both much less than perfect feeling and despite those nagging goals that currently feel forever far away, I love riding just for the sake of riding. Any minute up there is a good one. 

The pivo skills are rusty. But this ride made me happy because the weanlings were going absolutely nuts and were within view of us. But Sophie was cool and unbothered - a very big change from the super tense and reactive pony of last winter. I'm holding out small hope these months of non goals and getting to the bottom of ulcer and saddle fit (and rider health) is going to create lasting positive changes.

It's when I'm out of the saddle that it's easier to talk myself into not bothering, or not having time, or start nitpicking at myself over my lack of progress towards where I really want to be. This is such a little thing, but I'm going to go back to scheduling riding time in my calendar a few days a week. Just having that time free makes me very happy...it's been a ridiculous year and I've felt run off my feet and stressed about having too much on my plate for most of it.

The floors are finally finished so it's time for moving houses chaos. Standard disclaimer the walls are more of a greyish green, I don't know why they want to be a bold grass green in every picture I take :)

This room was supposed to be the dining room but it has a view of ponies so maybe it's wanting to be my office because we're not dining room people anyway. I keep waffling over it so I think we'll just let the sizes of the furniture decide

New cedar stairs and exterior paint (which actually is more of a dark teal green than blue/grey lol) and a major yard clean up this summer, but also the new front gate is now crooked thanks to the bears climbing over it this fall. It's always something.