Arrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhh!  Serves me right, I've been so content that Solo seems to have stopped coming up with random ways to drain my bank account.  Yeah right!!!  He informed me last night that his saddle really doesn't fit anymore!!!!  I've been watching it closely, since I've been riding him a lot and he's been muscling up nicely, I've kept a worried eye on the gullet area which looked like it was on the verge of pinching.  Well, grooming him last night founda few white hairs at the same spot on either side, about an inch or two behind his withers.  *loud moan of dismay*  Yes, thank you, beloved horse, that's exactly what I need to do is buy a new saddle right now!

 Well, in good news, my riding buddy has an excellent saddle fitter she needs to meet with anyway, so me and Solo will tag along and get him to flock something up for us.  At least this way, I know it will fit him right at the first go -- I think we'll go the Wintec route this time, which will make care a whole lot easier!  *snif*  But I love my saddle -- I guess I should feel lucky that it has fit as many horses as it has, I've had it for about four years now.  *descending into saddle mourning*

Ahh, that's crappy! I swear they have a sixth sense about that stuff. Just when you're feeling like "Hey, I've got some extra money this month, maybe I'll finally get my hair done!" Majically, your horse senses this and decides to *insert incident here* and you're back to being broke! Lol!

 So why do we love 'em so much??? Lol!

Yeah........although for me, it's more like, "hey, I've got some extra money, maybe I'll finally buy some groceries!"  Maybe if I'm really lucky, I can convince my mum to help me out with it for my birthday in February. 

 As an add-on question, can anyone who has the Wintec 2000 AP give me their thoughts on it?  I've been looking at that one cause it has the leather billets (HATE those synthetic billets) and seems to be nicely balanced (note:  this will be WITHOUT CAIR, just regular flocked panels).