Derailed by Kittens

So I was going to work on the path today. (really, I was) When I was looking for the clippers, however, I found four feral kittens instead. They're cute, they're fluffy and we spent the morning catching them. Alyssa caught kittens 1, 2, and 3, and I caught 4, the best kitten. We spent some time after that getting them a container set up, handling them, etc. We spent the evening working on kittens also. Eventually, one way or another, they're getting spayed/neutered and sent to homes that are not ours. More on all this will have to come from Alyssa.

We did get some horse stuff done. I rode Reno, which went well, he has a choppy trot which got choppier when Robert left the arena. Reno is very attached to Robert. He'll need to get used to leg pressure again after being a driving horse but really riding him is very very similar to driving him. He doesn't like to bend correctly in the cart either. I took Star on a walk and we crossed the bridge. I think that doing that trailer work got her used to the hollow sound that the bridge and the trailer both make when you step on them. I also took Papillon out for her first hack in a long time. She wanted to trot trot trot, at a minimum. I wanted her to walk. Sometimes the compromise was the worlds smoothest prance, but I think we wound up walking over 50% of the way around, maybe even 75%. Anyway, she'll need to get that out of her system but not overwork her shoulder at the same time. I think she can probably handle a half mile or so of trotting. If I wait for a sunny day (or, rather, the sunny part of a day) that will knock her out more quickly, since she's giant and black.

Tomorrow I'm probably going to ride Lady if nothing happens to dissuade me. Thursday its Colonel's big day. Ai ai ai, hopefully things will get less complicated, someday I'll just pull a horse out and ride it instead of having to plan exactly how everything needs to go down.
Someday....