Baby it's HOT Outside!

So it's has been SUPER hot lately...heat and humidity....so not fun. I really am aiming to get Ethan out to Team CEO's August mini trial and maybe Jumpstart, but with class the first part of the summer I'm a bit behind the 8 ball. SO, class is over and now I'm trying to get a horse back to work who hasn't worked in 8 weeks in 100+ heat indexes! Nice...thankfully CEO offers started and baby started options so really, we just have to jump 12" at the lowest. He just needs to get out, but I feel bad trying to work an out of shape thoroughbred in that heat. Granted he is probably much more fit that I am, so really he should be worried about me! So that's the Ethan update. I'm hoping this weekend I'll be able to ride in the mornings and suffer through next week working in the evenings.

CB and I at the first Media Day for the KHP. We "represented" eventing. I was fairly certin he was going to buck me off since he hadn't been ridden in months!

Poor old man CB broke off a HUGE chunk of his left front toe a few weeks ago. He's weight bearing but not sound by any means. At first I thought, ok, give him a bit of Bute and he'll develop a calus on the sole of his foot. Nope...2 weeks later we are not sound. I do not like seeming him hurting, so Jamie suggested we try Magic Cushion in a hoof pack. Well, he's walked through the packs the past 2 nights, not really helping the sole of your foot CB!!! So, this weekend he's on stall arrest (if he can stand it.)I would really like to keep him up for 2 whole days with the Magic Cushion on it to see if that will help. If packing the hoof Jamie said we could look into putting a shoe on that foot backwards. The part he broke off is on his toe so we are trying to get him up off the ground without pinching his toe and causing more pain. We'll see, growing old is never fun. I love my old man and just want to wrap him in bubble wrap. Pretty sure he'd just walk that off too but goodness, you can't fall apart on me now!

CB and I back in the good old Breeds Barn! Man, I was skinny...need to work on that!

Big Brown Eyes