Someone's got the sniffles....

Well, I had the vet out yesterday to give Miss Mare her vaccinations for spring and check her out of an intermittent cough... Turns out she has an upper respiratory infection, which I found out right before the vet arrived.

Know how I found out?

She sneezed huge disgusting boogers all over my arm and the floor. Yep. Definitely got a cold.

So she's on light work (no sweating) for 5 days until it clears up and 3 big scoops of tucaprim a day for a week. Poor mare mare :[ But she's eating fine, acting fine and doesn't have a fever so it isn't terrible.

Hopefully she is better in time for GREG BEST next week :]

Absent... BUT NOW I'm Back!

Sorry to the two of you who read this! (tehe) I have been really lazy about blogging lately, and so I shall catch up tonight with a recap post...

Monroe has been doing very well! She has been very good, and is loving her new more relaxed way of traveling! Her jumping has improved miles as well...

We still need to work on our straitening and improving our suppleness and connection to the right. I have started taking flat work lessons with Becky Hart, who taught me to ride, and she is straightening me out :] so hopefully in a few months I will no longer be crooked! I plan to keep working with her until I go off to school in September. (Oh yea, I GOT INTO UC DAVIS WOOHOOO!!! Aggies, here I come!) Once I'm straight we are going to move on to some dressage work, I am very excited!

We had a show this past weekend, and had lots of fun with the Triple Bar Stables (triplebarstables.com) team! Our hunter round was ok, a few bad distances, but overall pretty good... Our ability to perform in the show ring like we can at home is improving, but still has miles to go! My eq course was a disaster, and I went off course... It's the ring nerves! The jumper course was almost the same, but I found my fence (with help... oops) and even though I circled my fence they still let me do the jump off... I won a jump off against myself? LOL The other girl in my class went completely off course and jumped the wrong fence... oh well... We ended the day with a hunter hack class, where we placed 2nd out of 3... Not too bad! Our flat work was fussy, but our line redeemed us, even though we ate up the distance and the second fence was short, Monroe took it like a champ and jumped it nicely. Overall not a bad day... We definitely still need work, but at least we are improving.

Tomorrow we have a lesson with Becky, and then a vet appointment at 4-Miss Monroe gets her shots, and a hock exam (shes been doing really well on the adequan and legend, but its always good to know where we're at) and a checkup, because shes been coughing alot lately, and I don't like the sound of it!

Enjoy the pics from this weekend!