Can’t ride or groom but still hope
I can’t ride. Can’t groom either as hoof picking is killer. And I’m only 25yo. I have gone from riding daily as a living to n.o.n.e. Horses are gone, farm is gone, lessons are gone. Notta.
Dog agility. Yes there are lots of horse people! This makes sense because doing a course it similar to stadium (the course map is posted, you walk it sans animal, then you run it with), it involves an animal partner, it’s often outdoors. Agility people worry about footing almost as obsessively as horse people :lol:.
Spectate at shows, hang on to horsey friends, stalk COTH. Yes it is bitter sweet. Yes I drove away from Morven Park’s Spring HT as gloomy as the dark clouds but ultimately it is good for me to hear the hoofbeats & squeaking tack & snorts and smell the manure & sweat and watch & wish. The wishing keeps me
Searching for a fix. I am going to two dr appts this week, five next week, and three the following week. May bank account is scary low to the point where I am skipping meals because my money is going to ‘innovative’ read that as not-covered-by-insurance treatments. I sometimes curse if all the time, money, and energy I have poured into my back problems over the past two years was poured into horses, I would be realizing my eventing dreams. But wishing to ride keeps me pursuing a solution in the face of physical/mental and financial exhaustion.
It is what it is and I keep searching for something better. In the mean time, I acquired a new dog to take into the agility ring and spend my time training him up rather than melting into a serious depression.
…) but it can also be a very cheap way to pass your time.