I feel you here. I’ve been going through something similar myself for more than a decade.
Ironically, the horse who made me lose all fun in riding is the same horse who brought it back into my life.
Hoping Miss Grundy brings the fun back into yours!
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@Texarkana I hope so too. I am not interested in winning anything. Showing is fun sometimes, but it’s not why I ride. I see all these cow clinics and working equitation clinics around me and want to go!
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this one is 2’ x 2’
You’re in the Great Lakes area, right? You’ll have to come up for the Silver Lake Beach ride in November one year!
After a long year of rehab and stress trying to get to a show, that was the most fun I’d had on a horse in a very long time.
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I’ve never heard of it, I’ll have to look it up! There’s tons of cow clinics coming up, but they’re all in Northern Wisconsin. 
I want to go audit one!
You could also keep an eye out for RHAM clinics which are usually held in Berrien Springs. They have a beginner cow work maybe once a year or so? They’re a very welcoming group.
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More rope work for Grundy, twas a non event. Got on her 2x from each side, non event. Walked her all over the property, on the front porch, through a raised rock bed, along the fence right by the road - non event.
I blew a raspberry on her muzzle and got THE angriest look I’ve ever seen. 
Likes smooches, dislikes raspberries. Noted!
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Our first little jump. She was chill about it all, landed same speed, laa dee daa. Super short session since this is the 3rd day in a row we’ve done something. Good girl!
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And she’s good with her knees!
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Not bad! I loved how sensible she was about it, no overjumping or acting like a fool on the backside. Just up, over, out, gimme dat snack.
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There are a ton of cow clinics in WI. Maybe because it is, well- Wisconsin. You know, the dairy state and all 
Me thinks Grundy will be the perfect agile size to do some cow work! How far are you from Madison area? I have a good FB page for WI clinics.
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I’m about 3 hours out from Madison. That’s not impossible but still pretty far if it’s a one-day thing.
Share anyways, if you don’t mind!
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After a choke yesterday (thankfully resolved with massage, no vet intervention needed), we get soaked feed. The sound of horses eating soaked feed is so… yucky.
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So funny how we all like different things.
The slurping noise of a horse happily slopping in their wet food is one my favorite noises.
Now, having to clean up the mess of wet food on every surface within a horse length is not fun.
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My Old Man will take a mouthful and bring it next to your face to chew it, if you’re within reach. That miiiiight be why it gives me a visceral reaction 
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Feronia is not messy with her soaked feed, but she does end up with bits of it stuck to her coat all over from biting at flies.
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Glad Grundy got that chunk of whatever down w/o needing the nosebleed tube 
I had a haydunker & found his noises amusing.
Sounded like a toploading washer
A friend’s dunker grew a little oatgrass garden on his wooden feedbox
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I think you relocated from IN, but friends here have done Cutting/Sorting clinics.
I can ask for info if you’re interested.
The only one I know of around here is Cirro, and he’s more focused on sorting/penning mini-jackpots on the weekends - if you know of any more I’m all ears!
I’ll ask & post back here when I get an answer 
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