I am just not getting around to putting these up here. Pics and vid from a visit with the new boy last week. And I did decide on a barn name for him. It's going to be Therin. I chose that because it is sort of a male version of Katherine and it means Hunter. My Grandma, Katherine Hunter, passed away last month and she was absolutely the biggest supporter of my riding and just my biggest fan in every way. I miss her terribly but I feel good about naming this horse in her memory. Now I will see her every time I look at him and hopefully she will be watching over us and cheering us on :) Grandma Kay was the kindest, sweetest, most wonderful woman you could ever imagine and Therin so far has the same sweet easy manner about him.

I am itching to actually start working with him! I haven't been out to visit him since Friday because I've been sick. It started Thursday night and got progressively worse the next few days. I worked an 8 hour shift on Saturday, did the AM and PM shifts at the barn on Sunday, and did the closing shift at work on Monday. By this morning I couldn't get out of bed. Rather than force myself to trudge to class in the cold and rain and sit through 7 hours of lectures I decided to just go ahead and give my body a rest and just stay home. I felt a little guilty at first but it was definitely what I needed. I have finally started feeling better in the last couple of hours thank goodness!

Now for some lovely pics and a couple of videos showing off Therin's lovely trot.

vids:

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kait_the_great/?action=view&current=P1000549.flv

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kait_the_great/?action=view&current=P1000545.flv

I really need to start updating this thing regularly again. It was really helpful when I was keeping a log of my rides. Not that I've been riding much lately with all of this SNOW but still.

Lots to update about. Most importantly I GOT A NEW HORSE. He's a 4yr old TB and his JC name is Professor Turgeson. I'm not sure what I want to call him but I'm trying to come up with something inspired by my Grandma who passed away last month. The was absolutely the biggest supported of my riding in my family and she's always been an inspiration to me so I thought that would be nice. Her name was Katherine Hunter. Therin is apparently a male version of Katherine. Some names with the same meaning (pure) include Bronwyn, Caden, and Kit. I'll decide on a name one of these days.

Here are some pics I took yesterday. Perhaps I will go into a more detailed update later or tomorrow. I want to jot down some of my plans for the spring. I cannot waitttt for it to be spring!!

Freddy posing.

Oh Hai!

I like his white eye

Shiela sent me this pic of him trotting in the snow :)