Get it together

Now that school has started it's even harder to find a good time to work on the horses.  Because my sweet hubby has such a hard time falling asleep and staying asleep we're the sort that don't usually wake up until the crack of noon which means that horsey time is in the cooler part of the evening.  But that means that we're trying to pack feeding horses, kiddo homework, eating dinner, going to pick up our oldest son from band practice, and riding into just a few hours.  I could get up early to work with them but that means that dear hubs gets left out.  Ah well it's starting to cool off so I'm sure it'll get easier and easier to go out more in the afternoons.  How do others deal with this, I wonder?  I guess after work they just tough it out whatever the heat is and do it.  I guess we gotta get our act together!

Sweet hubby definitely wants to regain his riding skill and confidence plus riding would be so good for him so I definitely want to include him in working with the horses as much as possible!  Yesterday he graduated to riding on his own outside the round pen for about a half hour or so.  Yay for my sweetie!!  He thinks it's kinda funny because we actually got Tina for me and Traveller for him but where he's at right now Traveller intimidates him a bit so he's been riding Tina.  I can't blame him, if I stop to think about it Traveller intimidates me a bit!  Which is exactly why I don't allow myself to stop and think about that part of things while I'm riding him! lol  He's just young and green still, I'm not so young but just as green which could be a bad combination.  Thank goodness he's really a very gentle horse that just needs a little "continuing education."

I'm happy that one of our son's, Stephen, is developing an interest in riding too.  Stephen always had severe asthma and some minor heart problems, SVT, and so was never a really athletic kid.  Thankfully he seems to have outgrown the asthma pretty much and last year had heart surgery which seems to have cleared up his bouts of SVT!  If only changing his couch potato ways was as easy!  But the last two nights he's gone out with me to ride Tina some and says he really enjoys it.  I'll be so relieved if he continues to come out and ride so that I know he's doing something nice and active finally!  But that also means if the two of them keep riding more and more on Tina the more we'll probably need another horse.  Tina is in her teens and I don't want to push her past what she can comfortably do.  So I'll have to dive back into training Brother and Nugget which once again means I gotta get it together!  Whew, I wish I had someone to worry about pushing me past what I can comfortably do! lol