What's up Wednesday: Saturday edition

Heh... Better late than never amiright?! You guys. The past week+ has been a complete whirlwind. Let's back allllll the way up to last week. Thursday the boys got their teeth done and their fall shots. Jampy got some new x-rays too so he could get shod. (All's good as can be, so yay!) I can't remember anything special about Friday. So let's skip to the weekend.
Saturday morning I ran a few errands, and then met my dad and stepmom to go look at our first horse to try! You guys. He's an actual unicorn. He let me pop him over a few little jumps and then my stepmom got on and he packed her around like an angel.

Oh and yeah, he's big and white like a unicorn. Seriously.
After meeting this one, I went straight home to ride Eddie. We had a horse show the next day, and I wanted to practice a little. He was very good and I thought we were ready to show. Especially since we were just going to do some flat classes. After that I took care of the boys at home, and then had a hot date with my pillow. I was pooped!
We didn't have to leave early Sunday which was awesome. Neighbor picked me up at 9 and we were at the horse show a little before 10. We had a bit of a wait, but I got on early to see how he was feeling. Eddie's never been to a one day show, so we didn't know what to expect. At home, he's REALLY lazy. Like leg every step kind of guy. But he wasn't like that at the show. Which was mostly nice, but he was just a bit more fresh than was ideal I think. He never stepped out of line, but he also didn't work down as much as I would have liked before the class.
Our classes were out on the grass hunt course. It's not a huge ring, but it's a decent size, complete with some slightly hilly areas. Eddie is from Ocala, so he's not especially used to terrain like that. He thought it was SUPER fun to canter down! The first class went ok, I made a few circles to keep his attention, and he was a little tense. But overall it went fine. There were four horses in the class and we finished in second. Respectable for sure!
The second class was just a few minutes later, and it was just two of us. He was a little more relaxed this time. But I messed us up in the second direction. I knew he'd get rolling down the hill at the canter, so I went to balance him a bit, and he broke to the trot. Just for a second, but the judge totally saw it. Oops. Second again. Out of two. My bad. We were going to wait around and do the warm up before the 2' division just to practice, but it was going to be awhile and Eddie's mom decided we should skip it. He was pretty up still so it probably wouldn't have been the best experience. I was totally on board with that decision.

Still got satin.

After the pony show, it was home for the usual. Walking the boys, getting the pups out, and the last concert at the lake for the season. (I'm so sad summer is over you guys.)

I stayed till the end, chatting with some friends. It's like I can't let go... (I totally can't.)

Bye summer.

Monday I spent trying to get my work done and also touch base with the unicorn's connections about a trial, and the boarding barn about a stall. I got all those things worked out and we decided he would arrive on Wednesday. All very exciting, but Wednesday was pretty packed full already. Thankfully his arrival fit in my schedule. Which looked like this:
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Yom Kippur Services
1 PM Unicorn arrival and maybe a quick hack
3 PM walk the boys and feed
5 PM meet up with mom and finally break the Yom Kippur fast
6 PM get on the road for the Elton John concert

Well. You know what they say about the best laid plans. Unicorn actually didn't leave on time, so he wasn't going to arrive until 3:30. I took care of my boys first, but that wasn't going to give me enough time to ride unfortunately. I didn't want to literally pull him off the trailer and get on. So I let him settle into his stall, and then just took him for a hand walk. Everything else worked out fine.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! Badger was vetted on Tuesday, and Wednesday I had an offer! We went back and forth a bit and settled on a number both parties were happy with. So it's official! Badger has a new mommy! And they love each other to pieces! It's the best news all around.

And after that amazing news, mom and I headed off to see Elton John in his farewell tour. 

The show was AMAZING! As you might expect.

It was back to work on Thursday, but afterward I went to finally ride the unicorn. My stepmom got to have her lesson on him earlier in the day, and he was perfect. I asked the trainer to hop on first just to make sure. Reports were all glowing. I didn't want to do too much since he's already worked, but I wanted to sit on him still, so we just had a quick flat. He was lovely!

My own vet happened to be in the area the next day, but ideally I wanted to wait until Monday to vet him so we could all ride him a little more. Unfortunately, vet won't be around then. So Friday morning, step mom had another lesson, and the trainer jumped him around a bit. He was very good, but a bit spicy over jumps. Fair enough, new place and all. I said to go ahead with the vetting that day. Unfortunately there was something Doc found that caused me to have reservations. I decided to think on it overnight before making any decisions.
Whilst mulling over the news from the vet, I headed over to neighbor's after work to ride my buddy Eddie. I think we had our best ride yet. We strung together a bunch of fences, including a line, a roll back, and tight turn over a little jump in the center of the ring. He was really rideable, and my rusty eye found most of the jumps. Maybe there's hope for us yet!

Then it was home to groom the boys and do some chores in the barn. I can't begin to tell you how quickly I fall asleep these days! So busy, but all good things.
This morning my plan was to get to the bank to send the commission money to the amazing trainer that helped me sell Badger. But again, best laid plans and all.... Evidently, you can't send a wire on a Saturday. I first got the wire for Badger on Friday, and since the vet was out for unicorn, I didn't have time at lunch to wire the money to trainer. Hence why I was doing it Saturday. So I sent her a text and said I could either wire on Monday, or if she didn't mind I could drop off a personal check some time today. She was flexible and had no issue waiting, but I hate owing money, and she worked so quickly for me, I said I'd bring the check today, but it would be evening time. She said that was great.

Phew. So after the post office and the useless trip to the bank, I got home to meet the farrier. Boys got pedi's and new sneaks.

Next stop was out to ride unicorn along with my stepmom. We were going to have a family meeting along with the trainer to make a decision. We both had a nice ride, but ultimately decided we should continue our search. Unicorn is available for lease as well though, so if we don't find something, we may revisit him. It's disappointing. He's really a sweet guy and is happy to do both jobs we're asking for. But we also want to be smart. He's the first horse we even looked at after all.
I let his humans know our decision, and they're still trying to convince us we need him. I don't totally disagree with them, truthfully, but I think we need to see some other options. I let them know we'd come back if we don't find something else that would do the job.
Next up I walked my boys and then drove the hour up to drop off the commission check. It's really a pretty drive up there. Plus I got to see Badger and say goodbye.

He's actually staying there, his new mom rides at that barn with the same trainer. Could that be any better? Nope. It couldn't possibly be a better situation!
And now I've finally caught up from last week here on the blog. I guess this coming Wednesday will be pretty short and sweet since I've covered half of this week already... oh well. We'll make do I'm sure.