Well. The happiness continues.  Just... wow. It's amazing what an effect my horses have on my life ( Read more... )

I'm gonna be sore tomorrow. I rode Sham and Smoke, and I did some bridlework with Logan. I put the English bridle on him cause Sham uses the same bit. Cut his chomping down to nothing. I think he was chomping and gaping cause he could; I had the noseband on, and I had it on the third hole, so that he couldn't gape his mouth. He chewed, but he wasn' ( Read more... )

Woo! Progress! This morning I nailed that left diagonal about 98% of the time booyah! I rode Sham this morning and Smoke and Kissy this afternoon. Sham had issues with the roundpen gate, we'll have to work on it. Did lots of trotting to find my left diagonal, I could really feel it this morning. I guess after Lady, any horse is going to be ( Read more... )

Ahahaha I love it when I'm fully allowed to say "I told you so" hahaha ( Read more... )

I rode my horse today :-) I didn't have time to tack up, so I just threw her bridle on and hopped on bareback. It was uneventful, I didn't do any training (well we did a couple leg yeilds and a couple turns on the forehand, but that was all the training, really). we just moseyed along the trail, I worked a tiny bit on my sitting the trot bareback, ( Read more... )

I've got that stupid Pepsi commercial song stuck in my head. You know the one where that guy and that chick are dancing down the street? ARRRGH get it OUT!!! *bangs head on computer ( Read more... )

Was going to get up at 8 and ride this morning... ended up getting up at 9 and riding this morning. I rode Smokey, it was... interesting, we did more trotting than I had originally planned on, but he had energy, so we trotted. And we worked on halt-trot-halt transitions, which he didn't like... but he was better about it once he understood that he ( Read more... )

I rode today. It was a good ride, we worked on transitons and a bit of collection, and rounding, etc. Sham decided to try and throw a bit of a fit with the cantering, head shaking and I think she tried to JUMP into the canter instead of just transitioning, but I felt her back afterwards like Dawnna showed me, and she didn't give me any indication ( Read more... )

Had a good afternoon; took Kirsten and Brenda for a ride. All three horses were VERY good, Smoke was an angel about leg yeilding, it was nice to know that he IS capable of listening to me, it's just taken a LONG time to get to that point. He gave me some nice rounding too, so I was happy. It's kinda weird, he rounds really well right before he ( Read more... )

I rode Kissy today. It was... interesting. Perhaps some time in the very very distant past she was indeed a 2nd level dressage horse, but now she's not even close. Poor girl is soooo out of shape too. I cantered her a couple hundred feet at the very most and she was puffing, the poor girl. Honestly she looks like someone's taken it into their head ( Read more... )