I truly intended to make another post last week but lol that didn’t happen. Anyway, we’re now 12 days into Presto’s ulcer treatment.

I decided I’m going to make something fun out of the empty tubes since the amount of money they represent is relatively painful and absurd. Stay tuned.

Presto has been surprisingly cooperative about his meds though. I thought he might be kind of a turd (I have no idea what could have led me to assume such a thing aside from almost 7 years of behavior) but I go out every morning at 5:30 to give it to him so it has an hour to percolate before breakfast, and he’s been quite good about it.

Well, ok. He did figure out how to open the door to the stall that adjoins his pasture.

I discovered this one morning when I went out to feed and he was no longer present in his assigned location. He had settled himself in on the other side of the farm with the mares, who welcomed him adoringly. Honestly, kudos to his quick work, because to find this level of chaos in the hour between his meds and his breakfast is admirable really.

Anyway, he earned himself a clip on the bottom of his stall door so he can’t open it anymore, but that doesn’t stop him from trying. And he’s checking it very regularly, because a couple days ago after I fed dinner I guess I forgot to re-clip it, because about 45 mins later I heard a commotion outside and Presto was in my backyard like “oh hey… whats up…”.

He completed his 10 days of hacking/taking it easy, so we’ll start flatting again this week and maybe he can get back to the jompies by next week. I do think he’s feeling better, so now we just have to keep him on that track.

Argie boy had a bit of a quiet week last week, with new shoes on Thursday and then a dental exam/teeth float on Friday. He’s got a little bit of an overbite and a slant, and he had some definite sharp points and hooks in there… he was starting to get a little rub from one of them on this right cheek. I’m glad we got that all done and squared away even if my wallet is like “bro wtf”.

I gave him a couple days off after that, but yesterday it was back to business as usual.

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We’re slowly but surely making progress. I appreciate that I can not ride him for a few days and get on without any drama and pick up where we left off, that’s one of my favorite handy qualities in a horse and a necessary one for an amateur mount IMO.

I also got all of our RRP stuff submitted last week, so fingers crossed. The site was making me a bit nervous there at the end, it didn’t want to attach my vet reference letter. We’ll find out in a few weeks if I got accepted!

Let’s see, what else has been going on around here…

Last Sunday we had a couple different content creation things happening at the farm. The folks from Noelle Floyd came out to film some video of the herd horses interacting for some future Tik content, and then a couple brands came out in the afternoon to get some Presto footage/record a testimonial from me about a product. I mostly just tried not to sound like an absolute dumbass but we’ll see if I accomplished it or not. They also got some footage of Strax and some of the babies to use for other stuff, so all these WTW animals are about to be Insta famous. It was fun though, I always like making connections with people that I’ve only really seen or known through social media.

This past Sunday I made my vet tech debut… my vet texted and asked if I would have any interest in helping with a PPE on a 4yo Thoroughbred (I’ve told her before that I’m always down for more side hustles for extra cash if she needs assistance). The day was mostly open and I’m deeply interested in vet-related things, so naturally I was in. Her comment was “when they told me it was a 4yo thoroughbred you were the first person that sprang to mind because I knew naughty behavior wouldn’t bother you.”. Thanks Presto for that reputation. Joke’s on all of us, the baby TB was a perfect angel and aside from all the running I had to do, I thought it was fun. We only had to reshoot two of the dozens of films, so I’ll take that as a success for my first time.

Yesterday was a fun mail day – Presto’s 2023 year end ribbons came! I wasn’t even aware that there were Area leaderboards and thus Area ribbons, so that was a fun surprise. In Area 3 we were 2nd for Training (he hasn’t done a Training since April, so way to hang on to that leaderboard kiddo) and 4th for Modified (he only did 4 Modifieds) and then for the National leaderboard we were 6th in the Training Master. He was also 8th nationally for Modified but I guess they only do ribbons to 6th.

I need to find something to do with his ribbons that isn’t just piling them up in the guest room. It feels disrespectful to the amount of time and energy and effort that went into obtaining them, particularly with this horse.

In other Fun Mail Day news, LOOK AT THIS SWEATSHIRT THAT SWEET STITCH EMBROIDERY MADE FOR ME.

It’s perfection. She can do any color sweatshirt and any embroidery/font/colors you want. It’s one of those things that would be a great gift or also just a fun splurge item for yourself. I had one made for Hillary that says Thoroughbreds at the collar and has her two mares’ names on the sleeve. There’s really no limit to what you could do with it… farm name, show name, breed… you name it. The owner, Betsy, is super creative too if you need ideas. Here’s a link to the listing. 10/10 recommend!

Oh yeah, in other news I have a new Riding Warehouse code as well – BRE10. Feel free to use it if you’re shopping with them.

I think that’s it for this particular news dump? I’ll leave you to process.