Only Good Things

It's hard to find things to write about these days. I feel like I'm just going through the same routines, day in, day out. And so there's nothing really interesting to blog about. I've written so many posts this month and I just keep deleting them because they don't seem right. I don't want to just complain about my life every time, but it's often difficult to think of only good things. But I'm going to try to do so anyway, if only for the time it takes me to put this blog post together.

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We went to an agility trial last week, and Skuggi did really good work in challenging conditions. He kept his head during 60kmh wind, pouring rain, airplanes taking off over our heads the whole day. We got 2/2 placings, a second place and a third place, which is about our best result so far. Coming up next week is the state agility trial, and if we can come home from that with better results than last year's DQ and third I'll be happy. We're also attempting the agility class as well this year, as well as jumping, after spending a few months working on weaves and contacts. I don't anticipate much success in that yet but it will be fun anyway.

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Logan's training is also going well. I rode him again today, for the first time in the paddock without his lead on. He didn't try to take off on me. In fact, we had the opposite problem, in which I had trouble getting him to go forwards at all. He's such a good boy though. It's been slow going with his training over the past year, between working on the farm and the terribly hot summer, but I think the extensive break he had between his first brief rides in the round yard last spring and our longer paddock excursions this winter did him good, allowing him time to mature both physically and mentally. Although he still behaves like a calf a lot of the time, he's far more willing to do what I say and accept a rider without a fuss than he was last year.

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The weather has also improved a lot in the past few weeks. Sunny days with little to no wind and temperatures around 14 degrees celsius, although the nights are still quite cold. It's much easier to be positive when the sun is out. Unfortunately, our run of warmer days is coming to an end, with tomorrow set to be only 11 degrees with rain. Thankfully though this cold snap is only meant to be brief and it will be warming up again by the weekend.

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So that's the good parts of life right now. Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have some more happy things to blog about. We're still on the job hunt and the house hunt. We've been so close to getting something several times but always at the last minute, we get turned down. But now I'm straying back into complaining territory so I'll leave it at that.