And on we go

Sometimes life feels like it just keeps throwing you too many lemons, you make your lemonade, then your lemon meringue pie, then your lemon drizzle cake then more lemonade... you eventually realize you just have too many lemons.

The last few months have definitely been filled with a few too many lemons for us. We've had to say a goodbye to my soul dog Boo, been battling taxes, new school year stress, finance stuff, US Visa issues and Axels soundness... so many damn lemons.

Axel, my sweet boy is really not right. He qualified for regional championships with some really good scores and I was so excited to have a solid five or six weeks to really crack our test riding symmetry ready for the champs. Alas, as seems the theme, it was not to be. Ulcers now pretty much cracked, he isn't even rideable and we don't know why. It could be neck again, or something in his back. He looks good on the lunge but cant even trot under saddle. It makes me so sad for him. He looks better than ever within his body, muscled up and happy but just can't cope ridden. It will be back to the vet for us to run some further investigations and try to figure him out.

In the meantime I am trying to keep riding anything offered and hang with my barn buddies! I have friends to cheer on at champs and lots of work on my plate for our future visa plans. I'm staying busy, keeping on smiling and hugging my pony often. I am really hoping we can crack this.

Axel and I at our last show

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