Warmbloodville

Well hello hello, and a happy new year it is!
I am a lazy bum and haven't posted in a bit, but I will still choose to blame my lack of internet at home. It makes life a tad more difficult. And I'm pretty sure we are so painfully cheap that we will never be getting internet either...
But anyways. Lets see...whats been going on in the horse side of my life. Winter term at school has started up, so I've been having to cut a tiny bit of pony time off, but at the same time, I'm adding some too. How does this work, you might ask? Well, I am taking a class called schooling the horse III. This consists of me being assigned to a school horse, and I individually schedual times to come and work him on my own, to achieve goals for the horse and for myself. Sweet, my kinda class. Ponies, and no teachers. So anyways, I was assigned to the horse Oscar. You may remember Oscar being the horse that I used to love so much....and then he got feeling better and had shoes on, and then I had a total nightmare of a ride, and was much less fond of him. Ha. Well, I have discovered that when I ride him for the class, and NOT for equestrian team practice where I am having to focus on riding pretty...he is so much fun! I love Oscar! He is a nice big warmblood, oh maybe 16 hands. But he is super broke and is awesome. Fantastic walk to canter transitions, I just gotta say. And so my instructor assigned me to him to more improve myself, rather than him- since he is pretty much broke. There are little things here and there I will work on with him- he doesn't load in the trailer and such. But Oscar is a jumping horse, and so I will get to learn to jump on him! YAY! Rather excited for that.
Also have ridden BeauD, the other warmblood in my life. He is getting so good. I am starting to trust him a lot more. There are no weirdo spooks or crowhoppy bucks anymore. Walk, trot, and canter nicely. I love riding him too! Such a smooth gait and all that suspension, and oh that canter. So lovely. I am realizing that the next horse I get needs to be a warmblood. They are big, they have those big sweepy gaits that I love, but they aren't totally psycho. They are pretty chill. The perfect horse. Oh Yes.
And speaking of the horse I DO have.. I have made a decision in that area. I have decided to try and find a retirement home for her. I feel so bad to ride her, she has had so many years of terrible experiences and bad training- some my fault, some not. But she is so wrapped up in her own head that she just can't relax and work. Trust me, I have been trying to retrain her for years, and have gotten almost nowhere. There is a point where you must realize that this horse is so old, so set in her ways, and her brain is so terribly fried and dead, that it is not fair anymore to the horse. She would be so much happier and it would be so good for her to be put out on a big grassy field to keep another horse company. Get fat and remember what it means to be a horse. She is awesome on the ground and loves to be groomed and such, but she just needs not to be ridden and trained anymore. My poor mare's brain can't do it anymore. So I am poking my nose around looking for a companion/pasture pet home with some possible like...lead line stuff maybe? I couldn't have picked a worse time to try and give away a free horse, but I am in no hurry, and am going to be VERY picky about where she goes. I want her to stay close, preferably on a free lease instead of an actual sale. So yes.
There has actually been some very small talk about possibly sort of leasing BeauD if I find Gypsy a home. I would just pay to keep BeauD at the school barn so that I could ride him all the time at the school. It would be super good for the Beau man....but that is not happening unless I do something about Gypsy....which means it probably won't happen. It is a nice thought though..