Saturday 3 September 2016

Facial Features

Mine...not the horses. Kika's noggin made contact with my schnauzer last night as I was going to give her a kiss when she got a fright and caught me with an almighty wallop in the snout. Having never broken my nose I worried for a few moments that I perhaps now had & wondered how I might know for sure without having to go to A&E.

"I meant no harm!
Your face just got in the way of my fear"
- Kika
As darkness was falling & I was on foot, I decided to go about my business and give them their hay for the night before making my way home and seeing how I felt in the morning. If i had trouble sleeping and/or panda eyes when I awoke I would make my way to a medical establishment. Thankfully despite some swelling I do not think it is broken, perhaps a little sensitive and I'm very glad to have contact lenses and not have to rely upon my glasses for sight as they are a little uncomfortable when I put them on.

All photos taken today
I have to admit that I had never realised how much ones nose moves at every twitch/eyebrow movement/smile & I have to admit I fear the need to sneeze!
Thankfully I was not prohibited from a delightful hack in the woods on Kika while PL rode Nancy. We even discovered a new trail that I had never taken before which also branched off with other new trails which I hope to venture onto soon 😊

Lest we forget her adorkable
 face without mask

All going well with the beak tomorrow I hope to play with Kika's transitions in the arena while PL has a lesson with Nancy. Having been inspired last week by a Horse Listening canter article I read about using transitions to improve the horse's gaits. Neither the horses nor my fitness would be up to the 10 transitions suggested, so I shall aim for 5 between halt-walk/walk-halt, walk-trot/trot-walk & trot-canter/canter-trot. We didn't quite manage 5 in each direction last weekend as it was super hot, but those we did manage were a mixed bag of nice & fussy. In saying this however, i did notice that my concentrating on setting us up better for the transitions meant little to no flailing in our canter work. Here's hoping I can improve upon them tomorrow - funny how paying more attention facilitates such things 😆

18 comments:

  1. Good luck with your rides tomorrow and sorry about the nose bonk!

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  2. Ouch! I feel sometimes that horse heads are much, much harder than, say, concrete.

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    1. They deff move faster & more unpredictably than concrete 😶

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  3. Ouch! Hope your nose feels better soon :) I walked into a door (yeah...I'm a genius) and my nose hurt so much for like 3 days and then it was totally fine, hopefully yours feels better in 3 days too :)

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    1. Here's hoping!
      I walk into door frames all the time, combination of not paying attention & poor spacial awareness methinks

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  4. Ouch! Take care *hug*

    I'm going to dream a little dream that you will record some transitions to show off to us. 😆

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    1. Hahaha seems unlikely as i doubt there'll be anyone around to play videographer sadly. I would love it of here were as i wanna see exactly how my ugly riding is making things more difficult and hope to fix it somehow 😮

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  5. Hope your nose feels better soon!!

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    1. So far so good, here's hoping they greenish bruising doesn't go purple/blue and lead to weird water cooler/coffee station convo when I go back to work tomorrow.
      TG for a long weekend & Monday off 😉

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  6. Ouch :( the nose always seems to take forever to feel better again too

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    1. Uh oh, that's ominous...I have to say I never realised how much it moves till this ouchy business

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  7. Knock on wood for a quick nose recovery! I'm with you on the fact that I never knew how much my face moved my nose, until I got it pierced again. I had to tell D to stop making me laugh.

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    1. Such an unforseen nuissancing side effect 😉

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  8. Ouch! I hope your nose is feeling better!

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    1. Woops missed this comment, thankfully all better 😆

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    1. Not sure how I missed these comments - thanks for reading & sympathising *hugs*

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