Well a lot has happened since my last post. Kiona got a puncture wound about 4 inches above her knee and her knee swelled up a whole lot. We did the first show in a hunter jumper schooling show series and now it officially winter. And also pouty pony club ponies.
As for the puncture wound we found it 2 weeks ago when I took her out of the trailer. The thing is that she was not lame at all so we cleaned it and called out vet and he just had us put a sweat wrap on it for 3 days and give her 10 cc of penicillin for 5 days. All of this happened on a satuerday and when I had a dressage lesson on thursday she was completley fine. So we are very fortunate that it was not more serious.
We are having a jackpot hunter jumper schooling show series here and the first show was last weekend. Me and Kiona did 3 classes, 2 foot hunters, 2'6" hunters and 2'9" hunters. interestingly enough my 2 foot hunter class was quite horrible. There were only 1 other person in the class with me. The course statred out with a straight forward vertical on the diagonal. Then there was a triple combonation, Vertical, 2 strides, oxer, 1 stride and then a brush box oxer. Well it was going very well up until after the second vertical where on the landing side there was a big mud puddle. When I was walking the course I didn't think that the mud was going to be a problem. I was wrong. After the mud splattered on her she was really racy and strung out. Well I won't bore you with all of the details, here are my placings. 2' hunters - second place. 2'6" hunters - second place and 2'9" hunters - first place.
About the officialy winter part we got 16" inches of snow in 2 days and we got 2 snow days off from school. The best part about this is that we are that much closer to spring every second that passes.
We just had 2 girls join our local pony club and they bought a pony that another one of the girls had outgrown. They came to their first lesson and they could not get the pony out of the trailer. After the rider, the riders mom, me and the DC of our pony club (who is also the former owner) trying unsucessfully to get her out we finally just shut the door and left her there.... those stubborn little ponies =]
Well that's all the news I have for now! I hope to write more regularly! Bye!
