Babies and bad horses, oh my!

Babies

This ties into horses eventually. I promise. I heard the babies heartbeat last week! This made everything seem so real! Before I heard it, I knew I was pregnant but it didn't really hit home with me that I was. I guess because nothing in there is moving that I can feel, my body hadn't changed that much, and my morning sickness has been mild at best. So, it's easy to see, for me at lease, why I didn't feel that pregnant.

Then I hear this little fast heartbeat coming from my abdomen and its like everything is now changed. I'm taking care of this other tiny human right now. It's in there doing whatever it does right now and I'm the only person that can care for it. That, as corny as I'm about to sound, changes so much about what I have been doing up until this point. This month is tight with money and it will be for awhile. I'm trying to get as much in the bank as possible before the baby shows up.

Horses


Now, the baby ties into Memphis in a large way. I have elected not to ride while pregnant. I know a ton of people still do ride, but by my own personal choice, I have chosen not to. I trust Memphis a lot under saddle, but I have fallen off of him. He is not a short horse and falling off of him is a long fall that usually hurts. (That incident was funny- full out pace and he jumped a log and I went off the side)

Because of this Memphis is an eating machine that is just eating hay and money. Last week Memphis had kicked another horse resulting in a broken leg for the other horse. Yes, this other horse was put down. I decided then that I would sell him and did in fact put him up for sale. My reasoning was that right now I just can't handle the emotional aspect of something like this and I can't ride anyway so why not just sell.

Then walk in my barn owner and one of the 4-H moms at the barn. Barn owner told me basically not to sell. Her reasoning was that horses are horses and shit happens. She also said that Memphis is great in hand, great with groundwork, great under saddle, and he is good around the kids. The mom basically said the same thing and she informed me that she rode him about two weeks ago.

This is FINE by me. I had told her before that she can ride him and the little girl that rode him a bit back was her daughter. She then asked me if she could continue to ride him and take him on trail rides since he is easier on her back than her Quarter Horses. This again I gave her permission to do as Memphis needs to be ridden.

Now, for the time being this works and is in my favor. Memphis is currently up for full or partial lease. I like him being ridden while I try to find somebody to lease him since it will keep him in the right mind frame for a potential leasor.

Phew. This is long. I'll add more later but this is what is going on in my life.