I love your barn quilt.
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Speaking of! Did you buy or make that @endlessclimb? I’d really like one but keep getting hung up on if I should try to do it myself or just purchase. Does the pattern have a special meaning to you? (I get hung up on which pattern, too!)
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It was a gift from a friend. At my last house I had it on my shed, but it was starting to show wear. I forgot the maker, it’s written on the back. My friend bought it on etsy I think!
Thanks! I think I’ve seen that etsy seller. Good to know about the wear!
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I have one on order from someone in Mechanicsville, NY. It’s four different colored autumn leaves. The woman who’s making it uses recycled barn wood.
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My husband keeps goading me to make one for the front of the barn. That sounds like a good deep winter project. 
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Bye bye wolf teeth. Vet estimates her more towards 2 than 3, based on how many caps she has. Who knows.
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Take pictures when you get it! Sounds lovely.
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That’s definitely been my thought–winter project or purchase? The frustration of making the angles perfect has given me pause on doing it myself, though!
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It would be so fun to get kooky colors tho. Ones you’d never really use IN the house, but would look super on a quilt.
Got to wear a saddle for this trail walk. She’s so close to drinking wild water, but chose not to. Hopefully she will learn at some point.
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If she does not get with the program equine friendliness-wise, she will be a lot more trained and valuable as a seasoned trail horse.
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A few changes and she hasn’t acted out in a few days. Niko is beginning to trust her again, they were both inside together under the fans, side by side.
She is definitely in heat.
Chasteberry and raspberry leaves are on day 2.
Fingers crossed.
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I also bought a round pen. I am not 20 anymore, and if she’s going to make some mistakes I’d rather them be in an enclosed area so she cant build quite as much steam as a 1 acre pasture. I’ll collapse it and sell or store it when she doesn’t need it anymore.
Will also help me get her ground driving so I can be a little more sure of steering and stopping before I get up there. Soon i hope, but on her schedule. If I can do one trail ride/walk before the season is over, I’d be tickled.
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Same here with the greenies. I’ve found, with young horses, it’s not that I use the round pen that long, but it can sure help when introducing initial concepts to have a more limited (but not tiny) area, with no corners to get stuck in.
One is not difficult to move – mine lived at a couple places during my boarding years, and three more here while I tried out locations. It should retain some re-sale value, too.
If Grundy gets light on her front end, it might be worth considering filling in the rounded gaps between tops of panels – maybe something such as tennis balls would do the trick.
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Her go to is to round her back and porpoise around, but I’ve seen a horse get his foot caught in that gap and it wasn’t pretty. Good idea.
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We built a round pen because my daughter’s pony was getting away from the on a lunge line. I wasn’t sure we would still need it after we got him more sorted out, but we ended up using it in a lot of different circumstances. I always put guest horses in there to keep them separate from my guys, I trained my daughter’s pony to ground drive in there, and I put a colicking pony in there to make him easier to walk without him getting away to go try to lie down again. I don’t know if the guy who bought my property kept it, but we sure found it handy.
Rebecca
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Same.
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Good report. Grundy, mind your manners and be nice to your uncle!
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Sigh. Girth rubs are going to be a constant battle with this one, I think - particularly since the prior owners left me some decent scar tissue to contend with. Ordering a few different materials, hopefully I can find one that doesn’t rub, or I can rotate between types to keep it at bay.
Got to wear a western saddle yesterday. Predicably, we humped up at the canter. Was nipped in the bud quickly - this isn’t fear, it’s annoyance at the stirrups and the movement of the saddle.
Regardless - we do not buck with things on our back after the first saddling, and ideally not even then (but that’s not always possible).
I think she was either 1) being ridden very hard every day or 2) was drugged at her former home. There’s way too many holes in the training to think otherwise. Oh well, she is what she is, improving every day.
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