Onwards we go

 It's been a crazy few weeks, who am I kidding, its been a crazy few bluddy years. I feel like I hardly have time to catch my breath some days but it is better than being bored I suppose!

Willough is doing wonderfully well. She took a few days after her neck injection/ time off to really get back to feeling good and I had some panicky days where she felt unlevel, keen as ever but a bit funky. I panicked, spoke with Sara, texted vets, spoke more with Sara and was just told (by the vet) to keep going with light work for a few days and see how that went. I was thankful when she just kept getting better and sounder, such a stupid panic. We played this week with a cool lateral exercise. Basically if you are on the right rein, you come off the wall at M, half pass to around the quarter line, change bend/ flexion and ride a shallow loop to your left to around the second quarter line then leg yield back to the wall. We played in all paces with it- finally adding a flying change during the change of bend/ direction in canter. It was a fantastic exercise to get her even in both reins. I struggled keeping her canter flowing freely on the right rein in her half pass, she finds that direction much harder and we both kinda get stuck - I really have to figure out a way of allowing her to move more freely on that half pass. I did the whole lesson without stirrups too which was great- I need to get my seat deeper, especially in canter to help her out and stop her popping in tempi changes when she thinks I may possibly ask or when I come off my seat a bit, she just starts popping them in! Anyhoooo, sorry about the technical stuff- it helps to put in down on paper (well Macbook screen) for my own brain!

Axel is doing well, we had a lovely hack this week and a poles lesson with a few friends which was a freakin blast! So much fun and Ax loves doing poles, he gets all proud and excited. I am worried about his stifle though as his left canter is getting worse rather than better and he still balks at the start of a ride. Saras been schooling him a lot to see if she can break up the behavior in case it was just the memory of being sore but we have boths agreed theres something thats bothering him, even if it's just a bit. We have Dr French booked out to do an eval on him so we can figure out what's going on and if he maybe just needs a bit of help for it. I am trying not to worry too much but its just our nature isnt it?

Tomorrow I have an obstacles clinic with Axel, not exactly sure what to expect but pretty excited to do it, he loves a challenge and a bit of fun - so it should be a blast and I will try to get some photos of the stuff we do and maybe some videos if I can.

Well, its super late (10pm is way past my bedtime) so signing off, chat soon!

xoxo