Weekend rainy cold miserable Saturday 30s Sunday 40s

Went over to the barn on Saturday, went around 1 or 2pm, planned not to do too much because I had been sick on Friday UTI very painful.

Well it was a really nice visit. Put the cavasson on Beau he understands that he is dong something special when I put on the training halter. It makes me feel good.

Beau and I did only a little bit of snacks in the bandana, he walked backwards 4 5 different 10 steps. I wasnt going to push the lunging on Sunday.
I was happy to get his supplements taken care of while he was able to run around in the arena, stretch becuase not knowing that he wouldnt get out on Sunday either its important to keep him busy and get his strong after the long winter.

Patty is working on Ah Leah. She really likes to touch her, Ah leah does not like it. He goes to bite her. I would stop doing it and just try to catch back up, seems she is feeling badly.

Because Krystyn had put up my cross ties I felt really good about it. I put Beau in the arena, got his supplements together, gave everyone on both sides hay.

Patti does this really nice thing she fills up everyones bucket so that all the  horess have enough water. I really appreciate how sweet and thoughtful that is.

Beau stretched in the arena, reached for his bandana and sort of requested to play a few games and do his back steps

Sunday 

46 degrees less wet pn an off raining

4 min lumging, he spent alot of time in the arena. 

Bonnie fed the horses, just took the bucks of grain and threw them into the stalls. Beau was already done with his work out, back into his stall. I know he was a stinker for some of the time in the arena but its not like he was with Cisco, now that Cisco is on this side, htere is a diff horse on the corner of the

Time to restart Beau for training Wednesdays with Krystyn at 4pm

 It was cold but sunny our first meet up

I let krystyn know that we had lost alot of our progress, Beau and I worked in the paddock great but the arena was not as good as it used to me.

What I learned today:

• Learning to lunge him, hes senstive and you have to stand exactly at his barrel
• He will come in if I dont remind him but using my pointer and the hands correctly to call him and encourange him to keep walking
• His other side going to the right is still the most difficult.
• Krystynn said that someone in his lift taught him that he needed to fight back, sort of when you ask him to calm down, or response for him to behave, he has a reaction to be bigger and to challenge with all his weight.
• When spooked sometimes they go to you for comfort but they are just too big babies
• Beau is sensitive to the absolute perfect conditioning
• Kystryn has experienced some of the same things in all the horses
• I am all set to work with Krystyn all spring if possible.
• She thinks that the goal of getting him to go out walking, if I keep at him is managable.
• she finds it strange that hes good in his paddock but a total pushy jerk in teh area
• When I accidenntly use the lead lunge line to get Beau t straighten out innstead of working frhom his rear, it it a cue to come into the middle.
• 10 minutes of lunginng for him is enough
• Left side is Beau is his good side, right side isnt was easy.

Last weekend only got Saturday in Rainy cold

 Beautiful afternoon with my horse and with Patti, I culd find the cats but put out some snacks for them.

I was able to do chores stayed for a while and then went home had to skip Sunday so many things to do and then watch the boys at Raychels for her and Joe to go to the Celtics game.

Cold damp 30s Kitties so cute Beau did good on cross ties and a lil kicky at grooming his tail

 Didnt get over to the barn until about 3pm, it has been snowing at home a little bit. The rain is cold and constant. I didnt have any cat food, the kitties were pretty aloof, meaning when I came into the driveway. I had opened a can of tuna at home and put into a zip lock. When I pulled in the farm road, there were a field full of turkeys in a sort of foggy field. I saw that Patti was mostly the only one there. All the horse were in because of the bad weather. The big change was that the new hay feeders in each of the paddocks. This is to keep the hay clean and dry. If the hay is in the sand or the dirty ground and then the horses eat it they can become very sick. 

Well I gave every horse and the goats 2 hand fulls of the pepermint treats. Took Beau out into the arena. I do not work with him in the arena any more. His behavior has changed into something that I am not going to tolerate. 

Long week it feels good to visit the barn. Last week I spent my time with him in the paddock doing some working on his pick up bandana and also was able to relax in the paddock.

Well this week, I brought him into the arena to let him run, jump and relax. He went over to the new horse that is in Cisco's stall and did the annoying that they do. I wanted to not respond but had to go over there and yell at him. I know I should go back and ignore him. I did some chores and let him rest and walk around til he became bored.It was nice.

I took him in after a while and put him on the cross ties. He was pretty good, I had to close his stall door so he didnt do anything stupid while I was walking with him like charge into his stall.

As I gently bushed.his tail by taking it in my hand and bringing it around to the side.

Beau responds to this in a terrible way, he takes his back leg and kicks out. It does not seem to be a good thing. Is he in pain? I think so.  He picked up his front feet really good I didnt ask him about the back, we are making progress and it can be slow.

Before getting to the tail I did his body with a soft brush and then saw that he was actually starting to shed. Beau's shedding is nothing like Duke's, where I had to work very hard to get his fur to come off and heloved being groomed so much. I totally bonded with him on the cross ties brushing him cleaning his feet brushing his mane. It was heaven. I miss him.

Well he cleaned up good and then I put Beau back into this stall, and grabbed his supplements so I can make up some bags. I made about 8 and will make more tomorrow I need some more fold over baggies for te job. I got the new Horseshine and am thinking about the Bug Off so that he might be happier this summer. Im going to upload some pics later.

Good visit last week Saturday

 I was only at the barn on saturday last week but it was a great visit, not as long as I wanted but thats been my life lately.

I was feeling alot better since my huge bump with Beau walking in, but I did locate the rock I had landed on. My huge bruise is the same size as my rock.

Sunday we were going up to April's house for a really great visit, so I had to make sure I was able to spend a nice day with my boy on Saturday. Even though I didnt stay long, it was long enough then, 
I locked my keys in the car. Bob came and picked me up, brought me home and then I took his car to go grocery shopping, I was so embarrased

Patti waited with me until Bob came it was very nice of her.

I spend the whole time up in the paddock iwth Beau, then I had to take off.

Quick Visit on Saturday, but exciting too

 Had to share out sthat I was able to go to see Beau on Saturday, late about 4pm or so
I was grabbing some hay for Steve's bunny, Sweetie and then I had to give everyone some oatmeal treats.
As I was walking around doing chores I notieced more birds singing, which I Like. Patti had come and gone. I gave her Sienna some extra love. I grabbed some treats and gave everyone one in their paddocks some oatmeal bars.

I had to go to the store before I got to the barn to make sure I had enough cat food for the cats, I truly love them. I parked my car so that they both could see it, blue truck. Sure enought they both poked their head out.

Then as I was grabbing soem stuff oout of my back of my truck, Krystyn turned into the driveway. I walked over and thanked her for taking care of Beau and we talked a little bit about her helping him and if he was a good guy or not. SHe said he behaved. I asked if she would be interested in doing soem ground work with me because he had gotten fresh. She said they were all alittle bit fresh from the winter.

We decided that a Wednesday night would be best for us. I felt relieved, Beau is a great horse but hes doing a domineering man thingin the arena. She semmed to understand.

I asked about Sienna and she said that she's worried about her beause she's having issues getting up thsi puts some concern into the way that I talk to Patti. She said Sienna is almost 30, this puts the pressure onher hopefully she's feeling better. there is a good chance that Patti shoudl ahve stopped riding her a couple of years ago. I like how Katz says to start Beau slow in teh arena to get him strong. I know thats important, but many do not.

Setting up some time with Krystyn I can work with him and get him a little bit stronger.

Well I was briig him in with Krystyn was briging in the horses.

We were walking backwards down the hill toward the barn as his little exercise. Well He spooked, so Im facing the barn, hes walking down the hill backwards,

a split second later, hes facing the barn door at the top of the hill, Im on ground on my hip, facting outward toward the paddocks. My phone flew far not sure how I wasnt using it.

Krystyn ran over but Beau was truly confused, he was pointing his nose down to me, on the ground, wondering why I was there. 

so Krystyn said, when I asked her, What happened how do I get so turned aorund?

He spooked pushed through me, I turned around a little in teh air, landed facing the other way, he was then facing toward me I stillhave his lead line and it was loose.

Not sure how it happened but would have loved ot see it.

 

That was Scary!

Weekend, one warm day, one cold day

 Weekend Forecast: Saturday springlike Sunday cold and frigid with possible ran and the tempatures are wind chilled to single digits. Ill head over but going earlier thann usual because we have a concert tonight goinng to see Theivery at the House of Blues.

Saturday finally no rush with Beau, warmer temps, less hazardous ice

 So slippery at the barn, I brought the sand so I could sand the areas around my car space and Patti's.  We both took some sand from my truck in cups and spread it around.

Too anxious in the arena

Good on cross ties

GREAT picking up his feet

Back feet are not comfortable and he kicks a weird way thats too close to me

Today I wore my helmut

The horses need to only get out in the bottom paddocks because the ice going up the path to the top of the hill is all ice, the back barn sliding door is frozen shut.

Beau was on the cross ties, with his massage pad and he stood there for about 25 minutes without complaining. Patti was there when I got there, she had Sienna on the ties, her hoof was tattered on the edges. Patti said that Krystyn said he was coming to help, later on Jack the farrier came and fixed up the hoof and left in no time.

When I got the bandana and treats, brought Beau out to the arena. He did fgood for a while, we did 3 back up sets of 10 each. 

3 short weekends only 1 day

Steves birthday meet up

• Feb 1
• In the arena

Feb 7 

• In the paddock
• Working with Beau in the paddock is my new favorite thing. we spend time together. Its sort of rocky but still is ok. 
• he does his picking up his hoof so good. Although the back leg is a really hard kick out, that I dont appreciate at all.  I keep my head away from him when I asked him to pick it up. He can pick it up quickly and also kick out and stomp hard.
• Also I love to take off his blanket, brush him out nice and soft and then then let him chill out inn the sun or if we go into the arena, roll in the dirt so he can feel his back on the dirt, then he runs off farting as usual.
• I brought up some hay for them, no one had hay just like the week before so I grabbed a ton of hay and gave everyone that didnt have hay but espeically brought a ton to Beau, he was happy.
• Hes doing great with his bandana trick, its really good when he has an apple treat in the bandana, he just starts chewing on the bandana and gets the apple flavor from him.
• I do like doing workouts in his paddock. Its really nice and we walk around. In the arena he goes cxrazy but in his paddock hes very good.
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• Feb 15th
• walked outside so icy it was a sheet of glare ice all over the farm. 
• Found out that Beau ripped his blanket apart when he crashed the gate and ran off on Krystyn earlier this week. 
• Beau I brought outside we walked around in the brown slightly sanded ice he was fine he stepped with his brand new shoes on the slick ice and did a cartoon animation slip of all his hoofs, so funny. Krystyn pulled up just as he was doing it. Back to the safe area, we just went back over to the front of the barn, walked aorund and then back into the barn.
• The door on the arena was frozen open so I did not let him do a crazy run, hes just not a good boy with me yet. we walked alittle and back on the cross ties
• We did his massage pad for maybe 25 minutes, he hasnt lasted the full 30 minutes all all this year.
• Just as I was leaving, I went into the office to check on stuff, I pulled open his supplemennt drawer and it was empty, I forogot to do 2 weeks last week.  I grabbed all the supplements, in the bag made sure I had cosaquin, magnesium and the horse shine ready. Make a weeks supple and will make the 2 weeks next weekend.

Sunday, cold windy only worked up at the paddock hay and snacks for horses

 The other horses were so bummed because they had no hay.

I put grabbed some hay and gave it out to all the horses that were empty.

Worked with Beau in the paddock, Im getting good at climbing the fence quickly and jumping down.

Took off his blanket, hes better listener when Im doing it and putting it back on.

I brushed him out for a while, brushed his face, held him it was a nice day.

His neighbor in the paddock nnext to him watches me, I guess his name is Riley. Hes a big red.

I walked the way back-ups with him, 
He did the bandana tricks and almost picked it up
He picked up his feet perfectly when I tapped him. 

Super cute when he was eating hay.

His water was totally frozen and I thought he should have some, so I took the large broken ice plates out and brought the little green bucket full of water up to help top off his water bucket.

Monday it was Martin Luther King day

 Really there to change the blankets and give some treats

its going to be the worst week in 2 winters, temps in the single digits and below zero

I had to get over there and change his blanket

I bought the blanket that I had borrowed last year from Krystyn the green one, its dirty but still warm and didnt seem to old but I later found that it had a broken strap on the back.

It wont matter too much.

I had made some warm oatmeal for Sienna and for Beau, the kids seemed to like it.

None of the horses in that day had hay so I put hay in all of the stalls for the hungry horses.

That girl Amanda came and she was kinda a total jerk snob I was feeding all the horses when she got there and she acts like a jerk when she walks in with some little girl she looks like she is letting use her horse but Im thinkinng she is charging her or working as a trainner on their proprty, wel that is what Krystyn said, she seeemed ok with it.

NO one around the whole time high 20s and windy

 It was sunny but so cold out

The horses were out and they hadnt been out in a while

I had plans to give everyone snacks, 3 apples, 1 for Muke, 1 for Dusty, 1 for Beau and 2 apple sauces for Beau and Sienna.

As soon as I got into the farm, pulled up to the hay barn, the kitties came around the corner, the yellow tiger came and looked at me. They were so cute they are hungry.

I brought the pate and the shredded meow mix my grand kitties like.

I had to thaw out the pate because it was at Beau's stall so I gave them the Meow Mix right away. They were so cute they came out to eat. I put some hot water in the bathroom sink and put the 2 containners of Meow Mix into the water to melt.

I went up to his paddock, he needed hay. I talked to hm a bit than went back and did some chores and then grabbed his supplements. My plan was to sit with him maybe on a snow bank and make his supplemennt bags.

The blanket that I bought from Krystyn last week was missinng a back belt, but not sure we need it. 
Beau rolled after he saw I was sitting down relaxing while he was in his paddock.

The wind blew pretty cold.

Short but good visit Saturday

 High level points:

It was a Saturday and there were not too cold, even the water was able to be dumped and fresh put into the buckets.

worked in paddock

Im sticking to still climbing over the fence at Beaus paddock to work out with him

Hes really responsive to working out with me but I dont like his pushy-ness, 

Thinking of taking back on the treat rewards

Same old out of the gate excitement, makes me uncomfortable

responds to my sound "eh eh he" soiund that my mother taught me as a kid, works iwth animals.

Better about putting on and off blanket, when I 

took off blanket andn brushed him out

Beau doesnt really seem to like scratches as much as I would like or think. Maybe hes senstive to touch still.

He was Walking backwards perfectly, 

+++ seemed to choke on treats, well the heart ones, nnver get those again.

Brought him in after, the rain started, hes was seemly aggressive in the arena as we walked, both doors were openn and the gates were down. I had to keep him tight on the line. 

He might be a brat

He seemed to nnot did not want to go into stall

Last week when I was bringing him in he got caught on the eye hook today he just rushed into the stall.

I like the days that I can get him to stop and rest and start back

He turns great when I turn him

Still I wish he was handling better, still jumply would nver know hes on magnesium.

Sent a pic of Cisco to June, her sister passed away of cancer and she has been super bummed and not over to the barn lately. I know she was wokring out with Cisco and her other horse as a way to help her not feel as sad during her sister's progress into cancer.

Sunday after the snow at the barn

 I was at the barn this weekend, only on Sunday, Saturday was pretty snowy and I didtnt want to be there while the family was still clearing the snow. I know that the horses were going to be in while the clean up was going on. Patti was stuck inn Waltham her sister wasnt coming. 

NOTE: I was talking to Colleen in the hall about Beau, telling her stories that she was laughing about. She asked lots of questionns. Aft4r a wile I talked to her about Beaus background, how he was an Off Track Thorobred and that he had a racing life and then some other type of life completely. Then after a few minnutes I told her that  he had ann issue adn crashed the gate.

She mentioned right away that its from his days racing. I thought about it, how he leans agaist the gate and pushes through. Hes very bolty.