Weekend

This weekend has been relaxing, which is good, because the way I figure it, weekends should be “chill” so to speak. I did my normal chores at the barn, and the weather held up for it beautifully. It makes it so much nicer when it is raining cats and dogs or snowing. There was a clinic this weekend, so the barn was occupied by some visiting equines. They were easy to work around, the ladies that accompanied them were a little on the annoying side, but I guess I may be like that when I am older. I will jump that hurdle when it comes.

All the horses behaved themselves. Hank was still mean, but he did not kick or even attempt to kick me again. However, he was very mean to his other pasture mates. A way to picture this would be to imagine a bunch of kids in middle school. More specifically imagine a group of friends that are always with each other, and enjoying each other’s company. But then terror strikes. The bully walks in and takes everyone’s lunch money and locks the weakest link in a locker. Hank, is that bully and my horse Dancer is the poor kid who gets shoved in a locker. Not cool. The semester is almost over though, and Dancer will be able to come home and not have to deal with Hank, for a summer. I love having all my horses at home, because then I am in complete charge of them and everything that happens to them. Also, I can feed them what they need, and when I want. It is the life.

Joe is also getting the hang of entering and exiting the barn. He doesn’t get lost anymore. This is fabulous! I don’t have to get him out of corners when he gets stuck. It is really nice to see him learn. Kevyn is back too. He left at the beginning of this semester to get some more training under saddle. Poor Kevyn. He has a full body clip, which means his body is shaved. Except, on his butt, he has a patch that isn’t shaved which is in the shape of a heart. This could be cute, except Kevyn is clearly a boy, and the heart just girls him up too much. Kevyn is also bullied like no tomorrow in the pasture. I guess that comes with being small, and new. It will get easier for him, hopefully.

Other than doing horse stuff, I took the weekend off. To be honest, my weeks are so crazy full that when the weekend gets here I am so tired that I sleep most of the day on Saturday. Yes, it does kind of waste a Saturday, but it helps me prepare for the week to come. This semester has been better than last semester by far, but I am so ready for it to be over. Time will fly though, it always does.