the weekend cometh

Thank god for Fridays. And working from home. Seriously.

It's been a long-ish week with lots of time spent on trains. But by some miracle, it also managed to be a fairly good week for riding.

and cats. cats help everything.

I actually got home in time to ride after work one evening - a feat in and of itself. Never mind that the horse was super tight through her back and reluctant to go to work. Nbd tho, we just stretched it out and she really did put forth an honest effort. And I just had to be satisfied with that.

Part of me wanted to be upset that I had jumped through all these hoops and scheduling acrobatics to even be able to get there that night - only for the ride to be solidly mediocre. But Isabel obviously doesn't know, nor care, about what I go through to make riding possible. So I just gotta ride the horse where she is, right?

didn't take long for them to discover the plants that came home from my old office tho

And she was in more or less the same state for the next morning's lesson with Dan (written about in my last post). Again, I was a tad frustrated that we had to work through some evasions and resistance, rather than peacocking around like the dressage superstar Isabel can be. It sure would have been nice to put all our hard work this winter on full display in this first lesson back.

But I gave myself another stern reminder: riding lessons are exactly that - lessons. I am not paying all this money (now pricier given Dan's move up to PA) just to show off how good we are.

So instead I'm just trying to be grateful that I got to ride at all. And today is looking promising too, even if the forecast is a little iffy. Whatever. I'm not made of sugar, a little rain won't slow us down. I'm thinking a nice hack out with some trot sets and hill work might be just what the doctor ordered.

one of the violets has already been maimed. we'll see how long the rest last...

Then tomorrow is lesson day at OF, and Sunday could possibly be the most epic of blogger meet ups evar!!

Then I'm on the road for about... oh, just over a week. Right before our next event of the season. Super convenient, right? Le sigh. At least I'll be able to pop back in for a quick midweek lesson before heading out to Rolex. And maybe if I beg and plead, Austen will come school the horse in my absence too. We'll see...

Not gonna dwell on that for now, tho. Instead, I'm just happy that it's Friday and looking like a a solid weekend full of fun horse stuff!

What about you - anything big and exciting happening?