Horse Sense....

 

 

So I had my day sorted.  

It started off very Zen, got slightly busier when I got up, moved up a notch with people turning up, got crazy ass bug busy, then thunder and lightning storms.

And as I'm currently writing this, Elvis is sulking because I had to leave him tied up outside on the deck.  It is under cover but you know, not inside where the fire is.  And I had to do this because I couldn't take him in the car with me to feed Mares, because he now takes flying leaps at me to either: 

1) Sit on couch next to me.

2) Snuggle in as I'm lying on the floor.

3) Try to get up on bench to see what I'm doing

4) Flies to do a batman on the table, to Read with me

4) Any combinations of above.  

So I cannot trust him to sit nicely on the passengers seat while I'm driving.

On a positive note: Mares was super happy to see me this afternoon.  

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Mares baby Daddy second colt has not found his full potential yet.

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Races were good last night.  Timewise things are a bit tight for me at the moment, so I wasn't able to spend as much time as I normally do, but it was super fun, lots of cool conversations and of course, mucho horses.  

Races are a particular pleasure for me.  I love the horses, chatting with them, touching them and generally hanging with them and even though I am an advocate for horses and horse rights, racing and horses to me are a match made in heaven.  

Lots of horses love to race for their people, admitedly not all, but a high percentage do.  They love being fussed over, molly coddled, touched, played with, rugs on-rugs off and treats.  

However, like all industries, not everyone treats their horses like that, but overall harness horses are treated really well.

And the people are super cool.

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OMFG!  I just got gifted a service for Mares.  How freaking cool is that?  I am super excited, but I also explained that I work with my jigsaw, and as much as Mares new potential baby Daddy has great bloodlines, if it doesn't work with my jigsaw, I am wasting everyone's time.  Mares included.

Actually, maybe that's especially Mares.

But I was talking with Nana about it later today though, and she was like, He's got great bloodlines.  

Yes.  I am aware of this.  However, my success is based on the jigsaw I do.  Which is going beyond the first level of what you see, first impressions.  How I work is multi-dimensional, multi layered and has never, not once in 25 years, let me down.  So I'm not changing my formula now.  

Go back to your belief system because these are the keys to your success.

I truly, truly hope this works though because it is, on first impressions, an awesome opportunity.

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Suz and I are doing really well.  She's still a little Meh... on the odd day, but you know, old habits die hard.  She's coming into her own and is starting to fulfill the potential I always saw in her.

When it stops raining I'll start house training Ralph again. 

Everyone else is happy and well, we're just super busy doing us.

So, that's been our week: Spirit are walking and running and playing with us, which is awesome.  Random things keep happening and I'm trying to get out of my own way and just let the cards fall where they may (s'cuse the pun).  I'm breaking my days down into bite size pieces, I am not thinking of the future and am literally staying in the moment trying to be better than I was yesterday, this morning, 15 minutes ago.  

A lot of the time it's working.

Wishing you much love my friends, and of course, my humans.

Caps, me, Spirit, Az, Ralph, Chew, Suz, Fenny, Flash, Gino (who's not little anymore, but very juicy and smiley) and of course, my darling Mares and baby Mares and little cutie pie, Elvis.

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Elvis is scared of the dark...

** Countdown's on for baby Mares arrival.  

Sooooooooooo excited!  I've always wanted my own foal.

To breathe life into a new being - from Stallion to conception to growing in the womb to live foal.

I can't wait!

*** Did I ever tell you that I wanted to be a jockey?  

It was all I wanted to do for a long, long time.  Until I started growing in Intermediate and shot up to 5'10.  End of that dream.  Kind of weird now I think about it, considering I don't like speed and can't ride.  But I still remember that's what I wanted.

I only ever wanted to be with the horses.

I also used to go past Alexander Park and hear it calling me.  But I was brought up that, well, let's just say that you didn't. 

So I hit my mid 40's and had never seen a harness, or known anything about any drivers or trainers or even what the horses actually did.  I'd also never heard harness racing on the radio, certainly never seen it on tv and never stepped one hoof in a TAB.  

All I knew was that I wanted what was behind those fences with the bright lights.  I didn't know what happened there, but I knew there were horses.

Horses and horses and horses and horses, and even way back then it was a physcial pull.

In hindsight though, it's just as well that door was shut to me for so long, because going the traditional route would have changed my whole life, and not in a good way.

I would have missed that beautiful journey of Spirit and the Clair-senses, that eventually led me here with you.

And I wouldn't have changed that for the world.

Nana often asks though, Why didn't you come earlier?  What took you so long to get here?

Well, it's simple...

I couldn't have got here 1 day sooner.

**** I've just registered (and paid for) baby Mares to be eligible for The Breeders Crown.  

Never let anyone tell you that I am not an optimist.

***** 26th has been and gone, no baby Mares arrived. 

Give me a minute and I'll think of a new date.

****** Might not have been out as much as I thought.  Mares and baby Mares moved to "Welcome baby" paddock today, and Mares is showing signs that baby might not be too far away.  Her tail is raised, she's walking funny, baby Mares is full on moving, looking like he is undulating and he is either kicking her or contractions have started.  And Mares is off her food and she is never off her food.

Fingers crossed for tonight.

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