There are lots of changes in store for me this year. I am finally, FINALLY retiring from the Navy and will have more control over my own life. Purple hair dye here I come! My husband also changed jobs and now has more time to spend at home and is actually doing a job that he enjoys. I am trying to get my photography business off the ground and do other things to try and arrange my life so that I can work from home.
In my equestrian life I haven’t really done much. I have a lesson scheduled for next week with a new dressage trainer. I have decided to leave jumping behind for awhile and study dressage as I find I am too anxious jumping these days. I still love the pony. She’s sassy and quirky sometimes, but I love that red Welsh mare. Now that Superhubs has more time to spend with Cowboy he’s becoming less of a menace and I will be taking him to my dressage lesson next week.
I’m taking Cowboy because Fox will be leaving me soon. I have a realized, yes it took me seven years, that my knee jerk reaction to retiring Seneca has landed me with a partner that isn’t a good fit. He doesn’t fully trust me and I feel the same. This never makes for a harmonious partnership. This combined with Fox’s terrible feet mean that I can’t even really dream about competing again. So I made the extremely difficult but necessary decision to return Fox to his adoption program so that they can find him his perfect home. I will probably take some flack for this but it was the right choice. I’m a little sad, a lot guilty, but mostly I’m relieved. I want both of us to be happy and I don’t think Fox is and I know that I’m not.
So with that on the horizon I am indulging in the ultimate equestrian past time, haunting every possible nook and cranny of the internet to find my next partner. I have my eye on and am discussing a Warmblood Welsh Cob Cross filly, she seems like a lovely meshing of my two favorites types and her siblings all move extraordinarily well. But we’ll see. I’d love something a little older, closer to backing but I can only afford what I can afford.
Until next time, keep it between the flags everyone.
