Have a nice relaxing weekend!!!

New saddle pads came in the mail today and I can't wait to try them out.  Hopefully by next week I should have some pictures of the horses wearing them. ;)

I tried to convince her to stay at the top of the hill but she insisted on walking me to the gate.  Pretty sure Shoni would follow me into the house if I'd let her :)  I love my girl.

Well, it seems that Spring is finally around the corner.  Our weather has been stuck in the 30's or low 40's and we still have mountains of snow around here.  Of course, these snow storms that we keep getting aren't helping the piles go down any... But in the next week or so we're supposed to be in the high 40's and low 50's.  We already have mud issues in the driveway *grumble grumble* but hopefully everything will melt and dry up pretty quickly.  I'm looking forward to seeing leaves on the trees and some green grass again.  Six months of bare trees is a little depressing.

It was actually sunny and semi warm today (with snow in the forecast for tomorrow) so today was a great day for lovin' on the horses.

Trib was kind of a turd when I went to brush on him and kept walking away from me so I went and got a halter.  He was a good boy to halter but wasn't too thrilled when I took his blanket off (he had a grumpy look) but when I was brushing on him he softened up.

I'm one of those people that talks to my horses and Trib seemed to enjoy the chatter and brushing.  He turned his head towards me a few times so I could kiss his face above his eye.

Trib was a little underweight when we brought him home and we had issues this winter with keeping weight on him.  I am beyond thrilled by how much he has filled out.  What a difference a blanket and the right feed make.

"Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them."

Sleeping cheek to cheek

Just a fun video of Trib kicking butt during his working days.  :)

Met with a possible trainer to send Shoni and Tabasco to next month.  He came recommended by my farrier and our hay supplier.

I've been really picky about who to let handle Shoni because of the problems we had with her when she came back from the trainer, Mike, around 2007 (mainly being that he was lassoing them to halter them which caused Shoni to be head-shy for a while and hard to catch/halter).

It has been difficult to find a trainer who is not an old fashioned cowboy type or a trainer who is not prejudice against mustangs.  Now of course, I am running into the problem of trainers not wanting to work with them due to their age (they turn 7 this year) as well.  They give up on the horse before they even see them or work with them.  And if they do work with them, they already have their minds made up that the horse is untrainable.

Has anyone else run into this problem with either the age or breed of their horse?

At this rate, I'm thinking maybe I should just train Shoni myself.  I sure wish there were some TIP or EMM trainers in my area.