Spring, people & gettin' back on - in no particular order

Well, this weather is nasty. I love snow but even for me it's unwelcome today. I live in Hampton Roads Virginia for heavens sake! Enough already! Last weekend was cloudy and windy but pretty nice, warmer, felt like spring. I am ready for Spring especially when it comes to riding.

Speaking of which, I did ride this weekend. Both Saturday & Sunday. Not much accomplished really but it was wonderful. I didn't realize on Saturday that Gator hadn't had breakfast yet. It was also very windy. I had not ridden in... A couple months probably, embarrassingly enough. He was ready to go, had to fuss at him for literally hitting the gas before I was all the way on. I was still glad he felt that good though. When the grain was thrown he could hear but he was a good boy. We did only a little walking & trotting; it probably was only 15 minutes. I called it good and let him go eat. He's jiggly and still coughed a little so a short ride was okay. Sunday was 20-30 minutes still walk & trot, still quite windy but we were good. He thought about being silly once but I didn't mind. It's amazing how so many muscles can be so sore from such short rides; I guess I'm jiggly too. I wonder if he's sore... He coughed some still again but worked out of it pretty well. I think work is good for his breathing, not too much or too hard but it makes him take some deeper breathes, has to be good. So it was a good weekend.

Now, to people... People are the strangest of creatures to me. Dogs, horses, most critters are nothing if not honest, especially with themselves. They never feel the world revolves around them (well, Autumn might sometimes) but at least not the way a person can. It amazes mw to no end how a person can be SO self centered and still truly believe they are always putting others first. How contradictory! This kind of person need so much help and direction but can't even comprehend it from their knowing how perfect they are. It can be to the point they're actually almost a bad person. How crazy is that? Work is funny because you meet so many kinds... Unfortunately I am an understudy of someone like this. I don't dislike the person but sometimes what is said and done in the name of goodness is so... Not nice or good at all it's striking. Now said person really likes me so but to almost the point of a curse when 'good intentions' are like burden and I am so very different from them- of they believe I am JUST like them. Good thing I learn quickly and can start to limit, at least to a degree, my need to shadow this person. I luckily do work with many other good people who are pleasantly wonderful and my boss, I have found, is an amazing person. So I don't have anything to complain about - I'm actually not complaining just observing I guess someone who is detrimental to themselves. I guess I feel bad for them. Living just for you is awful lonely.