Manchmal ist Coors gut und manchmal ist Coors ein Schafskopft
More crazy dreams. This one took place in a restaurant on the fifth story of a large building. It was a pricey place and apparently I worked there, but on the side I would steal dolls and replace them with replicas. The originals I would restore and then sell for a ridiculous amount of money.
I may have mentioned before that he is a pretty nice horse for a three year-old, but is occasionally a punk. Coors was a punk yesterday.
We were working with the tire on the property and he had shown some desire to leak back home while we were working on the trot. He also wasn't wanting to stand still at the start and we had discussions.
We went into the dressage arena and I asked him to canter. He picked it up well, but decided to take off towards home as we came around the turn. I was able to bring him around, but the force swung the tire out and it knocked against the fence, which worried Coors so he went to take off again. I stomped on the emergency release, kept a hold of him, but tripped and rolled down to the dirt before scrambling up again and grumbling at his silliness. I hooked him back up and we proceeded to knock over a half dozen or more blocks before he hit one just right and the block landed in the tire. At that point I decided he could help me put the fence back together and then we'd try again a little smarter so he dragged the block plus tire, got to stand while I reset it, moved to the next block, and rinse and repeat.
This time we did quite a bit of trotting on serpentines to test his directional obedience. When I asked him to canter rather than trying for a full circle I asked him to drop down to a trot before we hit his takeoff point.
He worked much harder than initially intended, but if you have the energy to gallop off towards home, you can trot and canter some nice, quiet circles!
He was a lot quieter today when I worked with him in the cart and perfectly happy to stand ground tied as I moved the cart around him. I got the cart adjusted for him after some work and realizing the inner part of it was bent. Dry lube helped so I could get it in enough and then rotated to fit Coors reasonably well.
He is a cute punk.
Skeeter and Roy have warmed up nicely for the winter riding season. Before I wrestled with Coors yesterday Nelson and I took his boys out for almost two hours.
It was a very clear day, beautiful weather. It was a sharp contrast to this morning, which started out foggy and got more foggy until it finally cleared up a bit after 10am.
Let's count the horses I'm working on various stages of driving:
Raimey- older Quarter Horse gelding, an ex roper who is somewhat graduated, but we do some tune-ups.
Dolly- paint mare, Raimey's pasturemate. We have a little hiccup with the false shafts (she's nervous about it on her right side) to work through and are about ready to introduce the tire.
Coors- Gypsy Vanner gelding in full training.
Ballad- Section A Wlesh pony gelding, he and his owner are doing pretty well together and we continue to cruise around the neighborhood and build their experience together.
Jenny- Ballad's pasturemate. I'm also working on riding with her. She has pulled the false shafts around and the tire and continuing to work on her long lining and general obedience.
Bud- Mostly graduated, but his owner would like to improve her skills more and maybe do some shows.
Jonnie- Kentucky Mountain Horse mare, doing well with false shafts introduction and tire, just needs some time in them and polishing.
Charlie- miniature horse gelding, his owners are looking to improve skills and confidence.
Kana- miniature horse mare, greenbroke in harness, getting miles on her and maybe working towards some ADTs.
Pebbles- miniature donkey jenny, working on obedience in harness. Eventually she may willingly trot, but it took a while to get her in a nice forward walk so this too shall come!
Jewel- Gypsy Vanner mare, still doing pretty basic stuff with her, but hopefully pulling the tire soon (introduced dragging it today).
Trinket- While on a little bit of a hiatus she is next in line after Coors.
That is a lot when I write it out. I don't see them all every week. If you want to count all the horses I have worked with this year for driving you can add in Olaf, Chroi, and Gypsy plus my own two babies, Tru-D and Jasper.
And that doesn't include all of the riding lessons or the horses I've been doing riding work with.
I may have mentioned before that he is a pretty nice horse for a three year-old, but is occasionally a punk. Coors was a punk yesterday.
We were working with the tire on the property and he had shown some desire to leak back home while we were working on the trot. He also wasn't wanting to stand still at the start and we had discussions.
We went into the dressage arena and I asked him to canter. He picked it up well, but decided to take off towards home as we came around the turn. I was able to bring him around, but the force swung the tire out and it knocked against the fence, which worried Coors so he went to take off again. I stomped on the emergency release, kept a hold of him, but tripped and rolled down to the dirt before scrambling up again and grumbling at his silliness. I hooked him back up and we proceeded to knock over a half dozen or more blocks before he hit one just right and the block landed in the tire. At that point I decided he could help me put the fence back together and then we'd try again a little smarter so he dragged the block plus tire, got to stand while I reset it, moved to the next block, and rinse and repeat.
This time we did quite a bit of trotting on serpentines to test his directional obedience. When I asked him to canter rather than trying for a full circle I asked him to drop down to a trot before we hit his takeoff point.
He worked much harder than initially intended, but if you have the energy to gallop off towards home, you can trot and canter some nice, quiet circles!
He was a lot quieter today when I worked with him in the cart and perfectly happy to stand ground tied as I moved the cart around him. I got the cart adjusted for him after some work and realizing the inner part of it was bent. Dry lube helped so I could get it in enough and then rotated to fit Coors reasonably well.
He is a cute punk.
Skeeter and Roy have warmed up nicely for the winter riding season. Before I wrestled with Coors yesterday Nelson and I took his boys out for almost two hours.
It was a very clear day, beautiful weather. It was a sharp contrast to this morning, which started out foggy and got more foggy until it finally cleared up a bit after 10am.
Let's count the horses I'm working on various stages of driving:
Raimey- older Quarter Horse gelding, an ex roper who is somewhat graduated, but we do some tune-ups.
Dolly- paint mare, Raimey's pasturemate. We have a little hiccup with the false shafts (she's nervous about it on her right side) to work through and are about ready to introduce the tire.
Coors- Gypsy Vanner gelding in full training.
Ballad- Section A Wlesh pony gelding, he and his owner are doing pretty well together and we continue to cruise around the neighborhood and build their experience together.
Jenny- Ballad's pasturemate. I'm also working on riding with her. She has pulled the false shafts around and the tire and continuing to work on her long lining and general obedience.
Bud- Mostly graduated, but his owner would like to improve her skills more and maybe do some shows.
Jonnie- Kentucky Mountain Horse mare, doing well with false shafts introduction and tire, just needs some time in them and polishing.
Charlie- miniature horse gelding, his owners are looking to improve skills and confidence.
Kana- miniature horse mare, greenbroke in harness, getting miles on her and maybe working towards some ADTs.
Pebbles- miniature donkey jenny, working on obedience in harness. Eventually she may willingly trot, but it took a while to get her in a nice forward walk so this too shall come!
Jewel- Gypsy Vanner mare, still doing pretty basic stuff with her, but hopefully pulling the tire soon (introduced dragging it today).
Trinket- While on a little bit of a hiatus she is next in line after Coors.
That is a lot when I write it out. I don't see them all every week. If you want to count all the horses I have worked with this year for driving you can add in Olaf, Chroi, and Gypsy plus my own two babies, Tru-D and Jasper.
And that doesn't include all of the riding lessons or the horses I've been doing riding work with.