I got to ride THREE DAYS IN A ROW!!!! Yay! I've NEVER done that before!
On Friday, I didn't ride. Instead, I took Bauer and Rumor to the barn to play with Margaux's three black labs. They all got along wonderfully, and we got a LONG, STEEP walk in. I was most proud of my little Rumor... she was about 100 feet in front of me, and I called her back. She came FLYING back to me (OK, so she knew I had a big bag of treats). I gave her a treat and let her go back out with the other dogs. We walked them through the geldings' field, then went out the bottom back gate, and walked them back up the path around the pasture.
On Saturday, Margaux (and Granit, the Oldenburg mare) and I rode together. We just did work in the outdoor arena, which was fine because they were week-wacking and brush cutting, and all that noise was making Daniel act stupid. After I got him settled and had mounted up, I was working on leg yields and shoulders-in with Daniel. We did a little trot work while we were at it.
On Sunday, Kara (and Tessa, her mostly TB mare) and I hacked out on the perimeter of the property. There was a little, TINY creek in the back... barely a foot and a half wide and two or three inches deep. Hell, Daniel could have STEPPED ACROSS IT, and he wouldn't. Then Tessa wouldn't, and it became a horsie-psycho-fest. There was a one foot drop leading to it that had no water in it, so I pushed him to cross that because I didn't want to quit something with him winning. Kara and I decided to ask Carol or Jean (Cayuga's owner and half leasor) to hack out with us and be the lead horse. Daniel's crossed water plenty of times, just behind a lead horse! After we got back, I trimmed his hooves before heading home to hit the shower.
Today, we did that loop again, but they were both much better behaved. The boys in the field were snorting and fencing running and acting like silly colts. The cool weather is really agreeing with all the horses. Um, we skipped that water crossing all together though!!
Speaking of pasture, the picture above is the pasture Daniel lives on. How did I get so lucky to find this place??? The shed in the background holds 6 horses very comfortably, and the white roof way in the background is the indoor, which is left open when there are no lessons for the boys to use as a run-in. 120 acres and only 10 horses on it!!
