The good. The bad. The okay.

 Wow has it been a hot minute since I popped in here. I have written, edited, and rewritten this post a few times, depending on my mood at the time. We moved to MI with big dreams of shows and green pastures, hahaha. Yeah, neither of those happened. 

Mia acclimated to the move well!

The move was a lot more intense and time consuming than I thought it would be, but overall things are good. We have spent a significant amount of time catching up on deferred maintenance at our new place, which was not an insignificant amount, and have:

Installed gutters
Cleaned off the roof of tree debris
Fixed a leak on a pole building
Obtained 6 full cord of cut/split wood
Powerwashed the insane amount of patio
Laid 600lbs of paver sand in said patio
Installed 36 bags of blow-in insulation
Rip out everything in the 2 offices and remove dog smelling carpet in prep for vinyl planking
Rip out rotted split rail fencing
Cleaned the chimney and stove pipes, I am surprised the house never caught on fire.

Showing where the 2 abscesses blew out

This is not a full list, but things I can come up with without trying to think about it. After moving to MI, I started riding 4 days a week again to get Mia and myself fit. We got up to 4 mins of canter without dying and started taking some lessons from the barn. We started looking at shows!

RIP tail, that I put so much work into

Things happened. She got hurt. She got hurt again. Then some horse pulled her tailbag off.....with all of her tail hair still inside. Goodbye years of work that went into that tail, it is now gone. 

It's so short now

Then she came up lame on Tuesday August 30th. An abscess popped in her bar on Sept 3. The farrier was out on the 5th and agreed it didn't appear to be draining anymore, even though she was still quite lame. I called the vet out on the 7th and she wouldn't rule out soft tissue, but said it was likely abscess related and to give it time. 

Yep, that is a big ol abscess

After 2 weeks, Mia was significantly better, but still quite lame so I had the vet out again on the 22nd. We took x-rays because the vet suspected navicular (I was adamantly against this diagnosis). The good news is that we found no navicular concerns, but we did find a big ol gassy passage still in the hoof. The thought was either A - there is still an abscess in there or B it was a big ol abscess deep in her foot and the big hole left is still healing. The vet thought it is option B.  It turns out it was option A.