Far too long

It's been far too long since I have put an entry on here, but then when I look at my last entry not a lot has changed. The ground is still bone dry and BG is still moulting. Her coat now has dry skin in it so I am wondering whether to bathe her, especially with the hot weather we have been having, but don't know if I am best off leaving it until all her winter coat is out.

I have continued to lunge her a couple of times a week. She was going very nicely, but the last couple of times she is totally refusing to lunge on her 'bad' rein, so it'll be back to bascis, but her stubborn streak is kicking in at times so we might have a battle on our hands. The hot weather probably hasn't helped, no one wants to do too much in this heat. Plus, the flies are out now and annoying her, so we are back to applying fly spray too. It seems rather early to have the fly spray out.

BG has continued to be good about being caught, but not in the field, only in her shelter.

On the first of April we moved BG into the far section of field again, and have added a walk way from that to her shelter so she can get out the sun and flies if she wants too. She is obviously feeling the heat as her water bucket needs constant topping up, it means it's easier to keep cleaning it to, which it needs as the birds seem to be using it too so it is getting messy. End of this week we will probably be moving her to the mid-section again, a month on each bit seems to be working.

We are having to keep an eye out for ragwort now and remove it as the rosettes pop up in the field.

BG now has a friend in the field next door, although they aren't grazing near each other yet. I led her over to say hello over the fence to him the day he turned up, they gave each other a brief sniff but both were more interested in the new grass either side of the fence.

So, that's a quick recap on the last month. Lets hope I can keep this a bit more up to date in the coming months, but BG will have a new challenge to overcome. How will she take to a tiny baby up the field with her when I am around? I am expecting and due in three weeks, hence why I have only been lunging her (I have been banned from doing much in-hand with her since I fell trying to take her over the jumps). BG is still going to be as important a member in our family as ever, there will just be another person to love her too.