I’m not even sure where I’m at right now mentally! I’m super excited that I found my next horse! Midnight Cashman might be a paint, but he is QH legacy racing bloodlines! He is very very big! 16.3hh at least! But he is very chill! I had a few days left before my knee surgery and was praying like crazy to either find one or wait until after Christmas to buy. The market was all over the place. I made a checklist of what I was looking for and shared to several groups! Cash’s mama sent me a private message with a picture, a price and a statement! She said “I think I have what you’re looking for!” I asked if he happened to be registered and BAM… holy smokes. This horse had almost everything! Top of the list is Mr. Jess Perry! I wish I could remember to do these blogs on my laptop so I can share pictures 🫣! Let me describe him! He is a bay! But he has four, above the knees, white legs. Long black tail. His mane is black until the shoulder and that is where the white flows! Almost looks like someone dropped a bucket of white paint on his shoulder! He has a blaze! A very pretty head but big! The closest horse I have seen size wise is Kidd Curry Jr. my student’s horse aka Kiddo! He is also chill and HUGE. Also a Mr. Jess Perry! Cashman is a 4yo! Of course only a few months left before turning five! He was broke by a well known, for good training, trainer in OK. His owners bought him for a summer project with several others! She was honest and kind! In fact, I love the family that I bought this horse from as they are just great folks!
I mentioned that I’m all over the place at the moment. Did you remember that I have a chip fracture and torn ATL in my right ankle? Yeah, it worse and will have to be repaired soon. But I had knee surgery scheduled for today so the ankle is “praying that it heals” but it’s getting worse 🥴. My surgery was successful for my knee. Zarling “released my patella” and cleaned up some torn cartilage. It’s big swollen now and very painful. Very very painful! But so is my ankle. Same leg. So I guess I really need to use these crutches! Which means… no playing with horses!
I’m down to just Lynx and Cash. Of course we have the mini donkey, Evie and Cinnamon the mini mare! So for ease of feeding, Lynx is in the big field with the donkey and Cashman is living with Cinnamon! We are getting some rain, FINALLY, so I think this will work best for a few weeks! Cashman managed to pop a splint his first week home so he needs about six weeks turnout! So that is perfect! The good news is, he rides great! And typical for my style of horse, gets lazy with time off! He isn’t spooky and doesn’t have a mean bone in his body (cough cough LYNX) so I am just smitten!
I’m looking at several weeks off for the knee. The ankle is still a mystery. Planning to fix it before Christmas if all goes well. It took a beating in the last couple of weeks and I’m a bit worried that my simple fracture is now a good break. Hurts to move my toes and zero rotation. Again, if I could add pics….
My kiddo is doing amazing in school and football! They are all undefeated! (9th, JV, and V) so if they keep this up, they go to playoffs! We are 8 games in! I’m super proud of this team! He is still growing and I promise, when you hear his voice, it’s his! His grades are good and he still loves youth night at the church!
Jeff seems to be taking things in stride! He was willing to help in the horse shopping but luckily he didn’t have to pitch in other than food and fuel! My friend, Marybeth, grabbed me up Sunday! We had an amazing trip to Antlers, OK, got some good Mexican food then found out the Voss family had a blow out so we kept going north to meet them with my new best friend! We actually passed them on this long stretch of road with zero exits 😳 But we found one and pulled off in front of the John Deere house! Overall, I was super happy to get to hang out with her! Totally my kinda friend! She commented that it’s not a real road trip until we have a few detours! Yup! Exactly how I feel! She also 100% approved of my boy! But after like 10 hours on the road, my knee and ankle were toast. My knee has been having these issues since 1993. Literally had the same procedure they wanted to do to me when I was 14.
Monday was a weird day. I hesitate to say a bad day because I got to ride my new horse! Also I got to see my neighbors (good folks) and love on their new pup! I’m just going to leave the rest of Monday in the dust. I did walk 6.9 miles and my ankle basically said some cuss words. So it was a painful day but I got to ride my new horse and he did great!
So now it’s Thursday evening. I just took my pain pill to get me through until 1am. I won’t be missing that pill. It rained some today and crazy rain tomorrow. I’m very blessed that Jeff got to take off work to care for me as crutches in mud just flat don’t work and I’m a bit needy!
If you have time, I sure would appreciate some prayers! My lesson program 100% depends on my leg. So I’m going to be broke for a little while. So prayers would be great! I sure hope you smiled while ready my post today! Getting a new pony is always a blessing!
