Don't Worry; Be Happy!

MEGAN: My morning began with feeding in the Hunter Barn, turning out Paddocks # 2, 3, and 4 and sweeping around the drain outside the indoor arena. Cleaning out Simba’s stall and water were the next things on the agenda, then I cleaned out the wash stall in the Hunter barn and swept the aisle before hurriedly tacking up my horse for a lesson with Lendon. After an OK warm up, we worked on turns-on-haunches, shoulder-in to renvere, halt, rein-back, and medium to free walk- very important with Simba. After bathing him and giving him more straw I did some laundry and scooped lunch in Mica’s barn. I cleaned Cambridge’s saddle, scooped dinner, did laundry, and then tacked Caspian up and went on a hack with Annie. We decided that she would get on Simba tomorrow and help me with him, and I am quite excited. I am so sick of just riding the same every day, and I don’t know what to do to break the cycle. So, here we are breaking the cycle. After putting Caspian away, I helped Grace with her ponies and moved Simba to the Main Barn where he will stay until her ponies leave. He seemed quite content and I took him out to have some grass before I tacked up Charlie and rode him lightly in the indoor. It was raining by this point, and after putting Charlie away I fed and watered Simba and went over to Mica’s barn to scoop, clean, sweep, and take laundry over to the office. When I was finished, all them rest of the group (Will, Grace, Rachel, Emma and Hannah) had left, so I cleaned up in the Main barn as well as the Hunter barn. Laura took me home and I went for a long run. Luckily the storm held off until I got home, showered, and had some dinner. After walking over to the Girl’s to decide on a date for dinner, I came home and am off to study for the Festival. What a day…

SIMBA: Mom seemed very stressed today. She was rushed in the morning, and seemed distracted in the afternoon. I hope whatever is going on gets cleared up by tomorrow. Us horses do not like our people stressed. Just think of that song: “Don’t worry; Be happy!”