I guess it’s time for me to make another post. I keep forgetting to post on this thing until I’m sitting around going “Sheesh! Nobody is updating their blogs! What the crap?!” and then I realize I’m just as bad.

Jeremy and I are ordering pizza tonight. I’m pretty excited. We were going to cook and be healthy and domestic, but damn Jet’s pizza sounded good! Oh… and a quick note. Be sure to check out Jeremy’s updated web site. His publisher has taken over the site and it’s amazing! www.jeremybastian.com

I’ve been in and out of funkiness lately. Ups and downs. Mostly ups, but the down moments are pretty rotten. I keep telling jeremy that I just need a good shove out the door in the general direction of the barn. It seems like as soon as I get out of the city I feel better. This weather is really getting to me. The weather folks (who the heck are they, anyway?!) keep calling for warmer and warmer weather, always a few days off, and it seems like that warmer weather’ll never get here. Ugh.

Alright. I have to come clean. I’m buying another horse. Trust me, she’s worth more than what I’m paying for her. She’ll be living up at Lauren and Heather’s place for a few months until my student base picks up a bit again. I’ll also be posting Ffiona for sale some time in the next few weeks once I get some photographs of her under saddle. Fio’s old trainer sent me an email this past week asking how it’s going with her, and honestly it’s going well, I just think she’s going to be happier with a home where she won’t be used in lessons. Maybe if I could get a leaser or two on her things would be different, but she’s not cantering under saddle yet, and she’s just working on trotting poles so it’s not like she’s really ready for that. Meh. We’ll see… 

Anyway, the new horse will likely either be called Sprout, Brigid or Esme. I’m not sure on the names yet. She’s registered and incredibly sweet. She’s really conformationally adorable, too, and has a great little spring in her trot (it reminds me of Copper-the-pony’s trot.) She’s really simple to ride (though sitting her trot will take some getting used to) and she just seems really nice. Her owner is starting a family, and just doesn’t have the time for horses anymore. 

She’s going to be staying up at Roheryn for a couple of months until spring lessons pick up and then she’s coming down to Constantine to be a lesson horse. She should be tons of fun to show at emaa since she’s a flashy mover. 

She’s had a few babies, too, and her conformation and head are such that she would make a great broodmare.

I’m excited, and I know that I don’t Need-need-need another mouth to feed, but I figure she’ll be great for lessons and camp, and when summer leases pick up again I’ll have enough horses to supply to most of the kids wanting to lease. Right now each of my horses has a decent amount of work, but there’s no way I could make it through the summer without overworking them if I didn’t have another set of legs to carry some of the burden.

The closer I get to camp season, the more and more excited I get. This year is going to be awesome! :)