How to Resolve Frustration

So what does a cowgirl do when things get really frustrating?
She hooks up a trailer...
Loads it with horses and heads to the arena to ride! Nothing like riding to make the worries of the world go away!

Megan got to put a little sweat time into Blue's day...
Now Mrs Mom was very kind to call my horses WIDE. That isn't exactly the term I would use for this guy unless I was saying Wide Load or Two Ax Handles Wide. For Blue there is no other term than OBESE. Gargantuan comes to mind! He is one of those kind. You know the ones that you can give a bucket of water and a handful of air to and they stay overweight. He's a lovely horse though. I have no idea what direction we will go with him. Hard to tell until we get the blubber melted off.

And then there is Turk. Turk the Jerk!...
He and I finally got to have our little "go-around". Turk doesn't think he can transition to a lope without kicking out or throwing a buck or two in there. In the arena, I got to work on this. Hehehe-I won! That's why he is standing all stretched out--he is trying to get his air back. Funny how a little hard work, like rolling back on the fence-repeatedly, makes them think twice about acting out.

Now here's what you would call a bad wire cut scar...
When Turk was being ridden by one of the locals, the guy who owned the pasture next to where he was at, turned his stud and mares out. For some reason Turk never read the memo that he had been gelded and he and the stallion got into a fight over the fence. Turk lost...and almost lost his foot. The guy that was riding him doctored it for 6 months, finally gave up and turned him out in another pasture. One day, the guy calls mom and said he had the killer buyer coming by to get him. Mom freaked and made the killer buyer bring him home. As for soundness-As long as I keep him trimmed he is completely sound. We will see what he can handle and may end up getting front shoes on to give that foot some support.

And then there is Sandy...
He is just a really nice ranch horse that should be a barrel horse deluxe. Last year we learned that about that right lead. What is it with team ropers NEVER teaching their horses about leads? Sandy remembered and picked it right up this time. Good boy!

Megan rode Leo for me...
He is back to slow work on the barrels to get his pattern fixed. He has had so many of my brother's girlfriends run barrels on him that he doesn't know where to go or what to do anymore. Lots of slow patterning will get his confidence back.

Here's Megan with her barrel horse(in training) and her show horse...
That darn kid gets all of the colorful horses-LOL.

Look at the size difference in these two...
You gotta click on the photo to appreciate it-LOL.

And after a long, hard day of riding, mowing, weed-wacking and trimming feet(No, there was no fence building-I figured if my brother wanted to spend that much time and effort redoing the corner posts-thats his choice)--this showed up on my doorstep last night...
When he walked in the door, the only thing I could think to say was "I thought you were dead?". Guess he really did lose his cell phone again-LOL.