Packing and Prepping for the Festival

MEGAN: Today began with the usual- feeding, turnouts, and the indoor. After doing my stall and water buckets, I took Simba out for an extra-long hand graze and we also practiced for the vet jog at the Festival. After some laundry and cleaning up in the Hunter barn a bit, I tacked up Simba for our 11:30 lesson with Lendon. We went through our two tests for the Festival, and I rode him decently- the heat was horrible, and I did not stay on top of keeping him forward very well. After a bath and cleaning up some of the equipment in my trunk, I did more laundry and scooped dinner in Mica’s barn. Then Deauville and I worked lightly in the field- I worked mostly on my position in preparation for the equitation section of the Festival. Deauville also got a bath, then I unloaded Breyer horses from the back of Lendon’s car, put them into white coolers, and went to the hayloft in the Hunter barn to clean and carry boxes of “important stuff” (as opposed to the not-important stuff) down to the driveway to load into Lendon’s car for the Festival. After feeding Simba dinner, I loaded all of the important stuff into Lendon’s car with Rachel and then we went home. I ran, showered, and had dinner. After a study session with Laurelyn about teeth, I am off to finish my note-taking for that book and hopefully read through all my notes on the other book. Ah, studying in the summer. I don’t mind it- as long as it’s about horses!

SIMBA: Boy, am I tired. I have worked hard for two weeks in a row. It has been 85 degrees all week, and I am up for a trip to Alaska or Greenland to run with the Icelandic horses. Maybe they will teach me how to tolt… Anyway, I hear that we are hacking tomorrow. Finally! A horse needs his light days too, Mom. Well, I am off to catch some zs. It’s been a long, hot day on the home front!