Southern horse problems

I can't believe how fast time is flying by, its already Thanksgiving week and its been a week since I last updated! Let's see last week ended with trying out possible donation horses and a horse show at Georgia Southern. After jumping around the trial horses I believe its safe to say that this dressage queen is back in the hunter ring for the time being...no worries though Spence will still be my dressage pony, no way we're doing the hunters! The Georgia Southern western show went well on Sunday with all of our riders taking home ribbons as well as our two horses, Jack and Poco, being absolute champs all day. However, after a weekend of riding western for warm ups and coaching I was happy to be back in my hunt seat saddle on Monday.
The rest of the week was a tad up and down with work stress and pony stress. Apparently Lou has decided that retirement just isn't for him so instead he jumped out of his stall, crushing a 4 foot gate in the process. No need to worry though he came through with barely a scratch and has been happily cantering around the field with no problems. On a good note, Lou had his first appointment with his new farrier and he's sound (well sound for Lou) which is awesome! Usually it takes farriers a little bit to figure him out and for both to get into the swing of things with each other. The time change has made working Spence a tad bit difficult, there are many monsters hiding in the shadows of the arena! I still can't quite get used to not having an indoor...I may have been a bit spoiled back up north. In fact only one college in our region has a covered ring, I guess southerners don't ride in the rain or cold?
A nice perk of living in the south, particularly Georgia, is that Corey Smith is from here. So Mike and I got to go see him on Wednesday evening at the Macon Auditorium...a very nice happy middle of the week perk:) Aside from Corey Smith, it is awesome that there is always sweet tea, shrimp and grits are on menus everywhere and topic of conversation over dinner with the team often comes back to college football. Gotta love it!