A New Year Begins!

[silkyraven]

Once again I have been failing to keep this blog up to date! I have to admit the last couple of months in 2020 really had me down and I’ve been struggling to keep motivated to do most things. Here’s hoping for a brighter 2021!

Dino has been well. We started today at least partly how we want to go on: we went out for a hack on our own. Not completely uneventful as he got very over-threshold suddenly at the top of the hill and then tried to jog all the way home. I think we need to build back up to this work again. Our friend Jake left the field in December and was immediately replaced by Etoscha. Tosh is a very sweet little mare but Dino has decided he’s in love with her and I think we need to practice being away from her and Pops a bit.

It’s good they have formed a little herd though!

This year I’m hoping to ride more. We really didn’t in 2020, but I’d like to get out at least once per week now. I’m also having some Connection Training lessons with Judith again to try and keep moving forward with that. We’ve already seriously cut down all the leg waving! We’ve got some stuff to work on over the next few weeks where the mud is awful and probably going to get worse. Just need to keep on keeping on until April at this point really. Hopefully January will be a bit drier than last year!