Lyra

Lyra was feeling better, much better, moving out, getting ridden by Erica, my 5'4" twin sister, I'm 5'10" by the way and look a bit over sized for her. Erica though looks fabulous on Lyra, I think they make a lovely pair, I couldn't be happier watching the two of them, not to mention Erica has natural balance and is a very gentle, graceful, considerate rider, which is always nice to see on one of my horses in particular. Then I went ahead and trimmed Lyra's left hind too short and she's all gimpy and I feel absolutely terrible. That said, I have to say, about Lyra, she is stoic. I could not have asked for a more level headed, even tempered, good natured mare. This point is particularly poignant in that Epona, now being in much better shape, only ever wants to be bred and is having a terrible time being reasonable about anything else. I almost feel badly for Epona, however I have a pulled sternum from getting rodeoed off her a few days ago which makes me a little less sympathetic.

been a while

Hmm, it's been a while, a lot and not so much, all at the same time has been happening here.
I graduated from The Evergreen State College on June 13th, it was such an incredible event, many of Brandon and my family members were able to attend, which was really wonderful!! Pictured here is my brother Ryan, my twin sister Erica, Me, and my brother Trevor. We're always being a bit on the goofy side when the four of us reunite, lots of fun!!
Onto Horse happenings...
There's not a lot to report, has mostly been so chaotic here trying to find a post graduation job, having family visit, leave, other things needing doing, I just haven't been able to do much with the horses.
Scary thing happened yesterday, Xandra got stuck in the fence. The land lord where my horses are seems to enjoy tinkering in the field, especially putting up these ridiculous wire fences everywhere, then he conveniently forgets they need to actually be attached to the t-posts, not just looped over the tops, I can't keep up with the man in terms of running behind him attaching all these new fences, it's irritating really, not to mention terribly dangerous. Anyway, thankfully I was there when it happened and Xandra actually stopped when I yelled for her to Whoa. She stood there and just watched me, so I was able to get the fence squashed down closer to the ground and her leg pulled up and out. Was seriously one of the more scary things I've seen in a long while, I was terrified she'd lacerate herself terribly or worse actually break her leg trying to free herself. Thankfully again, she escaped completely unharmed.
The good news though...Brandon and I found a house to rent...with 27 acres and a huge house and several out buildings including a barn (although the landlord's keeping that as it's ridiculously full of all sorts of junk, for now), two green houses and several other outbuildings. I am so happy about the place I can barely contain it!! It's pretty much perfect for us. There's already a fence up, he's putting up at least two more fences so I can rotate. The one fenced area is about 5 acres, I will be sectioning it off to rotate as well. There is a large, maybe 15 acres? section that is getting hayed this summer and come winter I'll be able to rotate the horses out on that as well. The fencing is a lot more horse friendly, at the least it is attached top, bottom, middle... what a concept. I can have as many horses there as I want, he said he'll even build me a stallion pen if I want!, of course, I'd hope any stallion of mine could run in a field with other horses, at least one other horse, only seems right. Anyway, we don't get to move in 'till August 1st, horses might move sooner at this rate though. :-0
So now, really, all that needs finding is a job. Well, and maybe, in the not tooooooo distant future a couple more beautiful Curly horses to fill out all those acres more thoroughly!! :-)
I am loving my life!!!