Friday, April 25, 2014

Homemade Mane & Tail Detangler

It has been raining off and on for the past few days which always gets me in the mood to make some homemade goodies.

I was surfing around on YouTube at some horse videos when I came across a mane and tail detangler diy. It looked appealing so I clicked on it and discovered how awesome it was and so easy too!


Here's what mine ended up looking like. Rainy days always get me in a "I am totally going to make homemade stuff all day" kind of mood. The whole project cost me about $7 but if you had most of this at your house it would cost even less or even free, what a steal!




Wednesday, April 23, 2014

And So I Fell...

I finally have something to post!

We had a great little ride on Saturday and I told myself that we were going to do it again the next day. Well, that didn't really happen.

I was excited to go on a ride, I had waited so long for some good weather to get out and ride. But that day was a little windy and although Ava may have seemed calm she was really just on the verge about to blow... I looked passed the fact, tacked her up, and got on (without round penning her first). I thought it would be fine, all I wanted to do was walk around the arena a bit, she was great yesterday. Sadly she started to get really ansy and I did my best to calm her down and keep her feet moving but the BO suddenly walked around a blind corner and Ava had a spook attack. Then after that she spooked like three more times, the saddle slipped, and off I went. Luckily I was wearing my helmet (never ever riding without one!) but that didn't do much for my wrist. It took a while for me to notice the injury but after it kept being persistently painful I moved my sleeve and saw the damage. It looks like my watch smacked into something as I fell but I have no clue as to what it could have been and it left my wrist in a lot of pain. You can't tell from the photo but there is a massive bruise under the skin and some swelling. It has been agitating me off and on so I have been keeping it wrapped in a bandage or in a brace. I was a really bummed when it happened and of course it scared me (I couldn't help but cry a little bit). I just hope this doesn't set us too far back. I hope we still get to go out on lots of trail rides this summer. I guess we'll just have to see what happens.

Thanks for reading everyone, I hope to get some more posts up soon. I've almost hit 200!!


Saturday, April 19, 2014

Silent Saturday (almost)

Lately I had nothing to write about. I hadn't been riding, the weather was cold, and Ava didn't have anything interesting happen to her (thank goodness!). But today was our first day back into riding so I hope we'll be having some new adventures to talk about soon.