Christmas Ride

Well....I CAN FINALLY RIDE!! WOOT!!!
Yup, we've reached the 8-week healing mark from the C-Section that I had, and now I have permission from both doctor and hubby to ride! Yeah!

We went down to my parents place today for Christmas Eve and since we were the first ones there and V was content, I decided to quickly head to the back and hop on Dollar for a short ride.

Got to the back and realized that I didn't bring my bridle with me. Ooops. Left it at home. So I just grabbed a pair of barrel reins and went out to the holding pen. Dollar and Echo were both laying down, but as soon as I started approaching them, Echo got up. I went up to Dollar to take some pictures of him and realized that he had ripped out almost all of his mane!! Shxt!! I grabbed some pictures of him, clipped the reins to his halter and got him out of the holding pen. Echo wasn't too happy with this though. Lol.

I got Dollar up to the front rails, clipped the other side of the reins to his halter, climbed up on the rails and hopped on. He just stood there like a gentleman and waited for me to tell him to start walking. Once we got walking he was pretty good. A little on the lazy side, but you can't blame him, he's been off since April! We walked a couple rounds around the arena and tested the brakes, reverse and steering, which were all still installed. Yeah!

After spending about 10-15 minutes riding, I called it a day, hopped off and put him back into the holding pen with his girlfriend. It was nice to be able to ride again.

Dollar's New Job

Sorry for the lack of posting lately. I haven't been out to see my Old Man for a while, but as of October 21, he now has a new charge and job waiting for him come spring-time.

What new charge you ask?

My baby girl V (no, I'm not posting her full name on blogs)

So come spring-time, she'll be going for her first ride.

I'm hoping to be riding by Christmas time, as we had to go through a C-Section and I've got to wait about 8 weeks before I can ride. Sigh.

The Old Man is enjoying his time off though. He's escaped his fence quite a few times and is now in the holding pen at home with Sue, where we can make sure that he's not going to escape again.

Hope to update soon!

Brief Visit

So since I've still been being a bad Horsey Mom, I decided to make a quick jaunt out to see Dollar, who is now back in his 2-acre pasture as Echo is off to a trainer's for a while and there is still tons of grass in said pasture.

Now, normally when I go to see Dollar and call for him, he comes to me and doesn't make me walk through the entire pasture looking for him. Not so today. I started calling for him before I got to the pasture and no response. So I hopped the fence and started looking for him while calling his name. Nope, the bugger still didn't show his face. Ok.....and my imagination starts going wild.

And then it hit me to go look in the bush because that's where he likes to hide on me. And find him I did...

Can you spot the horsey??

Needless to say, he was hiding quite well on me, but he was also getting away from the flies. Poor Old Man. I went up to him and offered him his apple. At first I thought he was going to turn it down, but then he changed his mind and gobbled it up nicely.

After spending some time with him, I went on my way. He's still looking pretty good, just can't wait until I can ride again :)

Deworming Time! (Yes, we're still alive)

Yes, we are still alive here! And I do have to apologize for being a bad horsey Mom. I've barely been out to see Dollar lately, as every time I see him, I feel horrible that I can't really do anything with him. Sigh.

But today, we had a mission...DEWORMING!! Dollar actually seemed pretty happy to see me, and left his girlfriend with no problems to follow me into the coral. Yeah! Echo on the other hand, was not happy that I took her boyfriend away. It also helped that I had some corn-on-the-cob to entice Dollar. Hehe.

He happily munched on his corn while I tied him up and went to go get his deworming stuff ready. And then I almost blew a gasket. Why? Oh, because someone decided to take apart my English bridle. FULLY! Aaahh!! So needless to say, that while I grabbed his deworming stuff, I grabbed my bridles as well (English and Western) and put them with my stuff to go in my car. Urg...

Once I had everything ready, I got ready to do battle with him. Since I had to give him his heaves meds by mouth last year, he doesn't like anything shoved into his mouth. Especially medicine. Sorry Old Man. I did have to fight with him a little bit, as he was being a bit of a brat, but in the end we did get it in. Or most of it. He decided to turn his at the last little bit and got some on his face. That should teach him for not taking everything. Lol.

Can you really resist that face??

Treats

See what I mean about getting dewormer on his face?? Lol. He also doesn't look too impressed.

After everything was done, I let him back into pasture and reassure Echo that everything was fine. Sigh. I miss my Old Man :(

More Picture Spammmmm!!!!

Time for more picture spamm!!!!

Dollar with Echo

The two love-birds

Just too cute :)

Echo coming to say hi

Dollar coming to check us out

Brody trying to irritate Dollar by playing with his ears. It didn't work. D just ignored him and kept on eating grass. Good thing he's tolerable with kids

Brody showing Echo his truck

Brody playing with Echo and his truck

I Think Someone Has A Girlfriend....

Dollar's back at my parent's place in their side pasture right now. No, he didn't escape again. Lol. My sister Natalie got herself a new horse and they brought Dollar home to keep her company.

Well, I think he's in love. Apparently he hasn't left her side at all since they got put together and is always right by her side. Yup, it's love. :) 

 



Escapee

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Not really much to blog about in Dollar world with me not riding and Dollar on semi-retirement.

But it seems that Dollar would like to keep me on my toes once in a while. I was at work today and left my cell phone at home (it's the only phone we have, so I left it for Keith). When I got home, Keith said that my Dad had texted me, so i checked it. It basically said that Dollar got out last night and was in the tack room this morning and that he had to be moved back. Wtf? The text didn't say anything if he got hurt or anything.

So I called my Dad up and he said that he found Dollar in the tack room this morning. Which didn't make sense because his pasture is a 1/4 mile away. And again, he didn't say if Dollar was hurt or anything. So I was a little annoyed about all this, changed into my regular clothes and was almost in tears. Apparently my pregnancy hormones are kicking into high gear. Sheesh. Keith said that he'd come with me to see if the fence needed fixing and he'd help with that. Gotta love him.

So when we got to Dollar's pasture, we saw right aways how he got out. I'm guessing that the kids that live there were playing on the fence lines and managed to push them right down to the ground. Basically low enough that Dollar could step right over them and make his way home. So Keith quickly fixed the fence and then we went to go get Dollar from my parents place.

Now I'm really lucky that Dollar knows where home is, but I have no clue when he got out and exactly how he got home. Because his pasture is a 1/4 mile away, he does have to go on or close to gravel roads, where people have no respect for livestock. But I also know my horse enough that he probably stayed in the ditch and ate grass on his way home.

When we got to my parents place, I went to go grab Dollar, but Keith beat me there (Wtf??) and said that he'd bring Dollar back. Now Keith isn't a horse person, so this really surprised me that he'd do that. Dollar's pasture isn't that far for me to walk and it would be good for me too, but he said that he would. OK. So I asked Mom if they know when Dollar got out, and she said that he was in the tack room when Dad went to go do chores at 8 in the morning. He did go into the garden and help himself to some samples (apparently they were yummy) and also went into the tack room and helped himself to some grain. I quickly checked Dollar over to see if he was injured anywheres, but he looked fine to me, and then I covered him in KONK because of the horse-flies and then I sent Keith and Dollar on their way.

I hopped in the car, beat Keith to the pasture and waited for him and Dollar to show up. Keith went to move the trailer that's in front of Dollar's gate for his pasture (so that the kids can't let him out) and I kicked him back into his pasture. He seemed happy to be back into his pasture. Now just hoping that he doesn't try to escape again.