Sunny Days and Good Ponies!

I have been loving the weather these days! Now that July has hit Oregon has decided to show some summer weather! Mystic has had a couple days off, I lunged him yesterday just because I wasnt really energized to ride and then I rode him today. We had a great ride! We are still struggling a little at the canter but he is making progress which makes me feel good. He makes me feel so bad because he waits at the gate almost all day for me sometimes. Now he is a Gypsy... and is in a grass pasture.... a large grass pasture.... with other horses... and he just sits there at the gate staring at the driveway. Poor guy! He is such a ham for attention :) I love that horse!

Then I came home and filled waters and scooped poop for my two at home. Rearranged some panels and put up some boards that the Princess had knocked down (good thing we got stronger boards already, just need to put them up). After that Princess Sky got a real bath and sprayed her owies and her mysterious gross things between her hind legs. Then I hand grazed her so she could dry so I could brush her off because if you leave the water just wet then it dries all gross and defeats the whole purpose of the bath! Tolo is next on the list for a bath but I am waiting till tomorrow because otherwise he would just get dirty again before his date with a possible new little girl to ride him.
I also put Sky and Tolo out together for the first time. They have been fence buddies and have seemed to like eachother so it was quite uneventful besides Tolo trying to get her to run and play with him lol. All in all the ponies were great today!

Her gross legs...

Tolo trying to play

Where is my good luck?!

It all started Sunday.I had taken Sky on a trail ride because she looked sound since she got here. Well later that night she wasnt. Im not sure exactly whats up but I am really starting to like her and get attached to her already so that was a huge bummer. Then Monday night after getting back from a great night watching fireworks in Brownsville (worrying about my ponies the whole time!) we came home to find one of our dogs had gotten out of her collar, climbed her kennel fence, then climbed the fence off the property. I hadnt even really worried about the dogs because they had all seen/heard fireworks before but I was wrong. So we drove down out road and up in the forest with no luck at all. So we came home, got to work on fliers, craigslist, reporting lost dog online at the humane society, etc. Mind you this is at midnight. If you cant tell it was a pretty sleepless night. Then today one of my horses, Tolo, decided to try and eat a can of Blu-Kote I accidentally left out after treating Skys owies. He bit through the metal container making it shoot out everywhere. Since it was in his mouth he had it all over his mouth. Wondering how long my horse had to live I called the vet. He laughed at me and said he could send me a brochure on how to feed horses if I would like LOL! He said watch him close but he should be fine. Luckily he is fine, his mouth on the other hand is solid purple! His lips, tongue, and gums are all bright purple and will be for a couple days. He is one strange horse! Hopefully my luck starts going up, Im not sure how much more of this I can take!

Dont let the face fool you, she LOVES to be loved on!

She snuggles :)

Waiting for her ointment stuff to be put on

I may make some rude faces sometimes but please dont leave!

Alive and standing after his incident lol

You cant really see it in any of them but his tongue, gums and lips are bright purple

One Blog is Enough!!

Ok so I am the worlds worst blogger so I have decided just to use one blog for all three of my ponies! That way I will update more often hopefully :)
First off Mystic and Tolo have a new sister now! Her name is Skies the Plan, she is a registered Thoroughbred mare who is 7 years old and raced till this year. She is a big (around 16.3 maybe?) solid bay. She was a rescue of course, on her way to the feedlot before I got her. One of my best friends got a little filly from the same place Sky was at to so we made the journey together to pick them up. She is super sweet, loves to be with you and falls asleep when you groom her. She is thin for my liking (in race horse condition) and has very little muscle in her hind end which we will work on! I took her on her first trail ride yesterday (after having her for less then 24 hours haha) and she was GREAT! I was so happy with her. Then last night I went out and she was pretty sore in her hind end... I was told she got cast in her stall at the racetrack so she may have just thrown her hip out. Hopefully she just needs an adjustment because I really like her! She got all hosed off, legs washed, tail washed and trimmed, her mane trimmed, owies all cleaned and medicated (including her nasty hind legs that she did who knows what to), her teets cleaned and fly repellent applied to her poor belly that was all eaten up. She is such a lover and comes to me when I go out there and just loves to be loved on! Here are some pictures from us bringing them home to yesterday. I need some new ones of her hair cut still :)

Right after loading in to our trailer

Loving the hay in the trailer

Sky on the left and Pretty on the right :)

Tolo and Sky meeting

First ride since being raced was on the trails, call me brave or call me stupid haha

Such a pretty girl!

As for Tolo and Mystic. Tolo is just hanging out. I have a young girl coming to try him out to lease him on Friday so hopefully he is on his best behavior! Mystic is Mystic. Always on his best behavior and is just a blast to ride. He is coming along SOOOOO good and I am so happy with our progress! Here is a link to a video I took 2 weeks ago or so of his Auntie Alanna riding him! 2nd time she had really ridden him since he has been going so great under saddle!
http://www.youtube.com/user/RR17LK#p/a/u/1/oLcUv9iEb98

So much progress!

My friend told me tonight that I need to start getting better at blogging so I will try, that being the key word! Honestly this horse makes me look to good! He is so willing and smart that he jut picks up on things so fast. He is doing incredibly well, everytime I ride him I just think "man I LOVE this horse!". He is steady walk trot canter and his canter is improving daily. His up transition to the canter is great and he is going round at the trot consistently. I need to do some more lateral walk work with him again and work on our transitions up to the trot and continue improving his canter. We are heading to our first eventing derby next weekend and will be rocking trot a trail! I will update with pictures soon as he looks so good now :)

So Much Missed

Boy oh boy have I been BAD at this! Quick update. Mystic competed in OHSET meets 2 and 3 in dressage also. At meet 2 he even got 3rd place and by the last meet he qualified for state, not to bad for a guy with little training! Sadly after meet 3 he got a cold and has been off work for two weeks now getting better with meds. Seems to be better now but dont want to push him as I want him ready for state in a couple weeks! I have a lot planned this month including the beach, state, trail rides, horse shows, etc. Overall he is doing great and is still his same spoiled self :)

Shining Star

As usual Mystic was a the shining star as last weekends OHSET meet! From the moment he got off the trailer he was the talk of the show and totally was showing off! He handled riding in crowed (and I mean crazy gamers running straight up your horses butt or stopping right in front of you or about taking your knee off riding by at a full gallop) like a pro and didnt mind at all. He had only been cantering for about 2 weeks prior to going and his transitions were incredible for his lack of time spent on it. People couldnt believe that he was only 3 years old. He had his first team penning experience and it was a funny one! The cows literally all walked up to him and were following him where ever he went, the crowd got a kick out of it but sadly no video was taken and the picture guy didnt get any pictures of it :( Saturday he had his first run at the gaming events. Once again he was amazing. He was ridden by a team mate of mine because the horse she was supposed to use went lame right before the meet. He was golden for her and competed in canadian flags, birangle, pole bending, and barrels. Next meet I hope to do some more performance events with him next meet.

T-5 days!

Thursday we are headed to our first OHSET meet of the year! We are very excited. Although I dont feel prepared enough in the riding aspect for the most part I am really excited to see how the boys are. Mystic will be doing IHOR, Canadian Flags, Team Penning, maybe Birangle, and another gaming event yet to be decided. It will be a great outing for him and cant wait to see how he takes it all in. The cows will be interesting because he hasnt seen them at all here or worked them at all but were just doing it for the laughs!
As basketball wraps up I am going to really crack down on riding both my boys to get them going better. Mystic is now cantering under saddle but we have a lot of work still to do. For how much time he has under saddle cantering he is doing far better then I would ever expect. He does have a little stubborn/spoiled part in his brain but it mostly just provides entertainment :)