Day 93 - Determined!

Baggy is a pretty positive Body most of the time. She woke this morning in a determined mood. Clever Bird had a talk with her last night and suggested that she is ultimately the master of how she feels and reacts. Calum had said a similar thing to her last night. Baggy needs to take control. Not be intimidated. And definitely not allow others to influence her actions. Well, apart from all the rest of the gang that is. They can and will influence her forever more. So this morning Furry Mama let Minty Mutt choose his walk. We did the wetlands again. He dropped down into the stream again. From above him Furry Mama could see how much slimmer the lad is. He now has a waist again. He and Baggy both!

 

He is a HUGE mutt though. He still weighs 62.4kg. Clever Bird always says that he weighs seven-and-a-half stone. Wrong yet again Clever Bird. She just used a conversion calculator thingy on t'internet. Minty Mutt weighs nine stone twelve pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No blooming wonder it hurts Baggy's arm trying to lift his bottom over the stile on the wetlands walk! What's more, the vet doesn't consider him to be overweight. He is just a BIG boy. Baggy decided to power walk a lot of it today. Much better than jogging. But she does rather ache now. She struggled more than Mint to get up the steps en route. Of which there are three sets. But Baggy still felt fairly relaxed when she got home.

 

Lunch. A bit of action from The Domestic Goddess. Okay, a very, very tiny bit of action. But action nonetheless. Creative Clara wrote and published another instalment of her series for www.channillo.com. Then Baggy took Grotty Groom to the yard. She was determined not to let others put her off the enjoyment she feels when she's with her horses. She did take Mini-Baggy with her for moral support though. So clearly she is feeling less confident than she's letting on. But at least she went.

 

 

Grotty put Joey on the horse-walker and took Wesley into the manege. Once again the lad did not put a hoof wrong. In fact he was so happy to be doing stuff with his Mum that he actually cantered. He did quite a bit of canter work in fact. Once again he spent a fair amount of the time with his nose on the ground while doing it. He is considerably fitter than Grotty expected him to be. And so relaxed that it was lovely to watch. Baggy felt very relaxed. Grotty groomed both Boys until they shone. Well they shone through the mud and excess fur anyway. Grotty didn't in fact get Baggy home until 6.00pm. She'd spent three hours with the Boys.

But now Baggy is home she is beginning to realise that perhaps her road to recovery is not quite as complete as she thought it was. She is absolutely exhausted. (Although sleeping terribly last night hasn't helped). Her arm and her stomach feel rather tender (to say the least). So for comfort she made herself a lovely healthy supper. Well it would have been healthy if she hadn't eaten every last bit of fat on her lamb chops. But oh boy was it lovely. She'll regret it on Friday at Fat Club of course, but she's not regretting it at the moment..........