I've been having problems with Blogger wanting to add pictures to my blog posts recently, so here's a post with all the pics for the last few weeks.
The county next to the major city I live in has one of the highest horse densities in all of Canada (it used to be the highest, don't know if it still is). For years, and I'm talking like two decades, there has been talk of the county building an arena to support the agricultural part of the community. After some design changes and budget increases due to Covid, it has finally come to fruition. The grand opening was this weekend and they had an open house that seemed to be very well attended. When not booked for events, it's open for riding at the reasonable price of $20. They have some open ride days scheduled for specific activities like barrel racing or jumping, and two days of obstacles scheduled for September. I'd really like to take Stitch for one of those days, just to do in-hand obstacles if he's still a bit off behind.
I took one of my students to a schooling show on Sunday. I picked my trailer up at my barn on Saturday night so that I wouldn't have to go there first before heading to my old barn where she rides. I checked my lights before leaving, as one should, and the left signal light on the trailer wasn't working. I spent 40 minutes trying to get it to work, cleaning the connections, plugging and unplugging, looking for the dielectric grease I know I own but couldn't find. I decided to remove the plate and make sure the light bulbs seemed ok as a last ditch effort. When I pulled them out, they looked pretty good, but maybe a wee bit dusty, so figured I might as well clean the connecting end off before reseating them. To my complete surprise, that did the trick and they worked!
I finally had a Saturday afternoon free and was able to take a free introduction to leather stitching class at Tandy leather. I've wanted to for a long time but the class is always either full or running at a time that doesn't work for me. We made a leather keychain using a saddle stitch, and I asked to be shown how to do this cross stitch so that I can repair the sleeves that go over the buckles on my webber style stirrup leathers. I now have to decide if I want to bite the bullet and spend a couple of hundred dollars on tools to do some stuff at home.
Stitch still loves to stare at himself in the arena mirrors.
The barn got hit hard last weekend with a two nights in a row of intense rain. This was the second night. I had Stitch in, and a barnmate had just taken her horse out and said that a storm was coming. I asked if I'd have 15 minutes before it hit and she didn't think so, so I rushed to get Stitch out. There was a continuous roll of thunder while I was outside, but the rain held off until I made it back to the barn. It poured, it hailed, it was a constant light show of lightning across the sky. I was going to driving into it if I went home, so I just waited it out for a bit before heading out. A week later and the outdoor arenas are still not open due to wetness.
I don't know how many times I've tried to video something recently, only to discover after the thing that the video didn't actually record. I finally got my Pivo X mostly figured out, and managed to actually record my ride and not just the roof rafters.
A couple of weeks ago I perused the local consignment tack stores website. They moved a few years ago to a location that is very inconvenient for me to get to and are only open a couple days a week, so I seldom bother to check out their offerings. They had a Neue Schule bit on their website for a ridiculous cheap price, so I checked out the rest of the site and made the effort to get there. Unfortunately, they didn't actually have the bit, but I picked up this new with a sticker label still on it Curvon Baker sheet for only $33. Do I already have the exact same sheet in the exact same size? Yep. And have any of my horses actually worn a sheet in the last 15 years? Nope. But I could not pass up a $33 Baker. Luv that classic plaid!
It was a couple of weeks late, but Stitch finally got his birthday pony popsicle. Which he promptly dumped out of the dish because he couldn't chew into the frozen chunk fast enough. The floor was a wee bit juicy afterwards, mostly due to apple juice slobber. But he very much enjoyed it.
Right around the same time that Stitch went lame behind, a splint appeared on his right front. Coincidence?
It's so cool that you can go to Tandy for leatherwork classes!
ReplyDeleteI really want to learn how to do some leatherwork, but I am notorious for buying all the things and then not really doing anything with them, so I'm trying to take my time on getting into it.
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