Weeee!

I feel like a bad horseowner. It's been so freaking hot out, I haven't ridden in about a week :O okay maybe just 4 days. Reily hasn't minded it at all though! Hope he's living it up, because starting tomorrow we have less than 2 weeks till state so intense riding starts again!

To keep the blog intrestingish, I will tell you all about my last ride and how very productive it was. It was a hot day, not as bad as the past couple but probably around the low 90's, and I thought both of us were feeling sluggish and lazy. We tacked up like normal, mounted like normal, did warmups like normal *note only on one side of the arena*. Then I got inspired and decided we would trot around the arena nice and collected, with me holding and pushing him into the bit (snaffle bit day :D), getting that enormous butt of his to actually do some work for a change. So we're trotting at a fastish pace around the arena, feeling good, looking awesome. I'm thinking, "What a great freaking day" with a giant grin on my face, when BAM! We're in the middle of the arena, Reily looking as close to an arabian as a mammoth paint can. His eyes are bulging, his nostrils flare till they look like a small kitten could fit in each of them, snorting, and trotting in place, all while staring down a window along the side of the arena. That's when I see it, the scary horse-eating monster lurking in the window, and it looks just like Reily and me!
If you know my horse, you know he's not spooky in the slightest. So this really threw me for a loop. Not that I don't mind it, everyone needs something unexpected to happen every once and a while. But this is more than unexpected, it's unlike him! So I go off a mental list of everything that has changed, and the only one I could think of was he was back on joint supplement, and someone was feeling it!
But after collecting our thoughts, we continued on down the rail. For the rest of this 25 minute ride, every single time we passed a window, the above happened all over again. Every. Time. Ah well, we all have bad days!

Countdown to state: 13 days