Happy Birthday to all our Equine Friends!! 

Hi Everyone, 

Far out it has been wet, wet, wet here, challenging to find that extra ooomf needed to get out and ride, must say I have struggled! So decided that if riding in the mud and rain wasn’t appealing to me or to my horse then perhaps I could make use of that time by educating myself more and getting fitter...mmm failed on the fitness one too...though there is always tomorrow. So have been enjoying reading and watching some dvd’s, so much to learn!

Great news from my book supplier who has given me a further discount so I have been able to reduce the RRP on a lot of the books, so check them out. If there is something you are looking for and it isn’t on the website please let me know, my supplier has a huge range and can source most books for me. I have also been able to do free postage on some of the books and dvd’s as well. 

I recently travelled up to Grafton to do another cow working clinic with Steve Byrne. It was Lace’s first cow clinic and I was so proud of her. We all had a great time, the group of ladies and gents were so much fun to ride with. Steve taught us lots of new skills, we got heaps of riding time; and it yet again showed me how having a focus and a purpose for your horsemanship can really help you to understand why you need to keep getting it better and better. 

Now for an update on Matey. I thought that it was time to give Matey a well earned rest as we have been attending heaps of clinics, NH playdays, trail rides, Cutting training days etc I thought he must beover it by now. I decided to give him a spell over winter, which was just as well, the weather has been so terrible, finding time to ride one horse has been hard let alone two! Matey has other ideas about having a break though and has certainly been letting me know that he isn’t over it at all, instead he's been giving me lots of joy. On one occasion I got the car and float out ready to take Lace (my other horse) to a playday, I did this the night before, I woke up to find Matey standing near the float, all the other horses were heaps away. I thought, mmm that’s interesting, so I got about my morning routine and opened up the float and I went to catch Lace. I came back to find Matey had loaded himself onto the float and was standing there gazing out the front window. I was so tempted to take him along, however decided to keep with my plan of letting him have a break. Matey has continued over these last 2 months to make sure I don’t forget him, he constantly breaks into the house yard and comes and stands at my office window. He is always on the lookout for me, if I go outside he will come on up, when I'm  packing orders in the shed he stands there watching. When I am riding Lace he is often hanging about watching us. So here I was thinking my poor horse must be so over me riding him all the time, and needing a break...well, the break sure has created some heart and desire in my horse.  I can’t wait for some blue sky so I can get back to riding him  Look out spring here we come!

I hope you are all having a wonderful time no matter what you are doing.  Horses bring us so much joy; I sure hope we can bring them some joy as well!

Cheers, Lee