New Year's Resolutions...

I'm feeling inspired to do things today. I've half taken down the Christmas tree (I decided mid-way that I'm going to buy a new storage box to keep it in, so that's going to have to wait a little while), and generally started cleaning things up. I'll unpack the suitcases next I think...

Pity it's too hot now to clean the horses up. That's on the list for this afternoon. They're all very muddy right about now from the rain while we were away. It was good coming back and seeing them again, but now I have to get back into my campaign to find new homes for two of them... It sucks, but it's got to happen. I've got two perfectly good, rideable horses out there just hanging out doing nothing! If I was super-rich I'd keep them (and probably a heap of other ones too...) and pay someone to come and ride them or something, but unfortunately I have to get moving on my decision to free lease them out... or maybe even sell them if I'm feeling really brave... eep!

I've never sold a horse. I don't know how other people do it really... it has to happen one day though. There are so many good homes out there for horses, with people who will love them and take excellent care of them. I just have to stop being an anxious control freak and make myself let go :P

I bought a copy of Horse Deals to look through and see all the people who have horses. There are a lot of them! And there are definitely people out there who would make excellent homes for my two.

So it's going to be a new year's resolution. New homes for the horses!

Well that was a nice little break now wasn't it?

Things got pretty busy there for a while! Hopefully I'll be able to get back to a more regular schedule of blog posting now that Christmas is done for another year!

How was your Christmas? Mine was pretty good! I got a new rasp for trimming my ponies' hooves, and after using it I can't believe I put off getting a new one for so long... Funny how much easier it is to trim when you're not using a blunt rasp!!

The horses are having a bit of a holiday. I had my last competition before Christmas and was very pleased with the results considering our preparation was a bit patchy due to all the rain. I rode in two tests, for two seconds with scores just over 60%. I was especially happy considering the surface was slippery so I had to ride 'safely'. We weren't exactly dribbling about or anything, but we definitely could go more forward next time under more normal conditions.

Always good to finish the year on a good note!

Hope you're all recovering well from whatever festive celebrations you may have been partaking in :-)

Welcome to the Equine Inspiration Blog!

The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things... of horses, blogs and inspiration, of cabbages and kings!

Ok, perhaps not cabbages and kings... I'm not sure why I suddenly thought of that poem from Through the Looking Glass (it's from The Walrus and the Carpenter, in case you're wondering). I love Alice in Wonderland! The density of nonsense in his writings is very appealing indeed!

Anyway, let's get down to it. I've been creating bits and pieces of things around the internet under the name 'Equine Inspiration' for a little while now. I haven't had much time for it lately because I've been very busy, but now the wet weather has made it impossible for me to ride, so I'm indoors in front of the computer this weekend!

Amongst my web projects I have created several 'lenses' on Squidoo, which can be seen here. I am also in the process of starting a Zazzle store, which I find very exciting! My designs could one day be on t-shirts, mugs, cards, mouse mats and all sorts of other items! Even shoes! I'll start playing with Zazzle again once I've finished this blog. There's a lot I still have to figure out over there, and setting things up will take some time!

I've started this blog because... I wanted to! That's a good enough reason isn't it?

I wonder if anyone will read it :)