This is me. This is me when the weather finally drops below 90 degrees. Seriously, it has been glorious. Want to know what’s even better it FINALLY RAINED yesterday into today. Sure there may be flash flooding, and I had to weave through puddles to get to work today, but Kentucky has been in basically drought conditions and everything has been dead. ON TOP OF THAT, the ground has basically been CONCRETE for the last month.
Even arenas with good footing have fallen into basically being concrete with sand on top. ugh. So I am super happy to see the weather turn.
You know who else is happy?
This oddly shaped polar bear. How happy was she about the cooler weather? Well we decided to go for a trot set on Friday evening. Towards the end, I let her canter a bit. No big deal. Then, I asked for a little more canter, and… well, I felt May’s body drop out from underneath me as she TOOK OFF.
You know that combination of trying to say whoa and laughing? If you don’t, trust me, it’s not very effective. I think May thought for about a stride more and realized that I probably wasn’t asking for a flat out sprint, so she came back to the quiet hand gallop I had actually asked for. Oh well, a happy mare is a happy mare.
On Saturday, the weather was even cooler, as we snuck in an earlish ride with some friends. The joy of friends? MEDIA! (kidding because I love you all even if you don’t take video for me). Below is a really boring super exciting to everyone I swear Dressage video of us running through our Dressage test in our not-to-size arena.
Overall, May feels good, but not great during our tests. We need to clean up the canter transitions (forever and always). So that will be the main focus of our flat rides. The rest? I am just going to accept as is. Everything could be better, but I am more concerned with getting her fitness up a bit more and getting myself confident in the jumping.
Until then, enjoy the cooler weather friends!
Cutest spicy corgi around. It is COOL here today so cool I had to turn all fans off for the farrier appt and I am wearing a hoodie (shorts too so that maybe why i am cold). Remus was dancing in his pants during the farrier appt so he feels the weather. HA
and his coat grew more overnite! UGH! 🙂
You guys look great in the video!! look at you guys go! 🙂
We’ve had the same issue with no rain + extremely hot temps = concrete ground. That clip looks great!!
Drought is THE WORST.
We just had the driest winter and Spring has been skipped over and Summer has already started
Ugh I hate that!! I am a bit afraid that we are going to hit winter without any fall. The low tonight is in the mid 40s (~7*C) ?
Yep that’s a brutal crossover! Our weekend just gone hit 34C (93.2F) and we are 8 days into Spring… or so they say.
Oh my!!
Dry as a bone here and each day the forecast shows no rain in the 10 day. It’s getting a bit worrisome as the rainy season should be starting.
Ugh we are still on endless summer here… damn San Diego. I want fall too!