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Equal measures

Today is one of my favourite days of the year. It’s the Spring Equinox. It’s a milestone for me every year. A sure sign that we’ve made it through the gloom of Winter and longer, warmer days are on the way.

And it was a scorcher! The Upgrade said 18 degrees. Yes, my new car tells me the temperature. The Comedy Car was devoid of this feature. So now I can actually know, rather than just going with hot or cold.

The Upgrade also has working air conditioning. Now that’s a real luxury. The Comedy Car did have AC, but it didn’t work. Rather pumped out even hotter air! Kinda defeated the object really. I got used to the windswept look from having the window open. I usually arrived slightly battered. But no more…

Buddy had his own AC today. A naked day in the field. After months of rugs, it must feel good to have the sun on his back. I sat with it on my face and boy did it feel good!

Spring is my favourite season. Full of hope and wonder. Days like today make me smile.

Big coat

In preparation for the ‘big freeze’, I broke out Buddy’s ‘big coat’. Of course, it will now be much milder than they’re forecasting.

My ‘big coat’ was called into action too. First to take Bert for a walk. I did wait till the sleet had stopped. Then again to lunge Buddy over some raised poles. I say over, he nearly fell over them! Poles on the ground or raised are definitely something we need to work on. And when I say we…

Monarch

It’s new rug day for Buddy. His old one has seen better days. The tail flap is hanging by a thread. It’s covered in scratches where he insists on standing with his bum in the brambles. Starting to regret buying him a new one already.

This one is called Monarch and is Royal Blue of course. Only fitting for my little boy. Well he does have King of Diamonds and eventing royalty in his bloodlines.

I think he looks super handsome in it. Of course, this is probably the last time it will be this colour. Tomorrow it will be brown…

Rug addict

This is what happens when the tail flap comes off your rug, your Mother gets a 15% discount voucher and there’s a sale on. Happy New Rug Day Buddy!!

Yes I know that’s not an official thing. But it could be. My rug addiction has been under control recently. I even sold some. And I haven’t bought a new rug for ages.

Not that I’m justifying my purchase of course. Doesn’t Buddy look smart in it?

Oops he did it again

Buddy 2 – Rugs 0. Buddy had ripped another rug by getting it hooked on to the stable guard. So the chain links have been covered with tape and I’ve bought two new rugs.

Buddy has obviously decided that if you’re going to do a job, you might as well do a proper job! Not sure my sewing skills are that good.

Still I can excuse him lots of things when he was so pleased to see me today. And most of his rugs were bought for Murphy or Phoenix. So now he has a range of rugs of his own. Fingers crossed these last!

Suits you

Even if I do say so myself, Buddy looks rather fetching in his new rug.

Not sure he was that impressed with being asked to do a fashion show after we’d ridden. He was much more keen on having his dinner. He obviously wasting away as you can see.

Bad rug week

On Monday, Buddy was found at breakfast attached to his stall chain. Not a clue how long he’d been like that. Or how he managed to get his rug clip through the chain link. He’d obviously tried to release himself resulting in a rather ripped rug. Very grateful it wasn’t a ripped Buddy.

Got to the yard today to find another one of his rugs ripped.

He’s super talented my boy! To be fair today’s ripped rug was an old one and was falling apart somewhat.

A replacement rug arrived today. It’s Teflon coated so let’s see how long it lasts.

We’re available for rug sponsorship…. 😉