It rained Monday night and Tuesday off and on during the day. I went from five lessons to two (two sick one injured). I was initially intending to work Bud and then do the morning lesson, but she asked about bumping to the afternoon so I hooked up the trailer and headed to Higley Feed to get some panels for the first two stalls on the property. ( Read more... )

I just had the lesson with Sue and Bud today. Before that I had working students over and I pulled out Dakota to do an evaluation ride on her. Susanne, who is leasing her, said she was having some trouble with her, especially tracking right and asking for her gait (Missouri Fox Trotter). Susanne said Dakota had ducked her head and done something ( Read more... )

I put a ride on Sunny yesterday during a lesson. I still had the Dr. Cook's bridle in our tack room from using it on Panda Saturday so I out that on her and decided to try my Dressage saddle on for chuckles and giggles. She was very reluctant to trot and generally unhappy in her face. I blamed the bridle first and pulled it off" replacing it ( Read more... )

Marty acquired a Dr. Cook's bitless bridle a couple years ago to use on Cinnamon and to try on Sunny. I am not sure if Sunny likes it, but Cinnamon seems to go well enough. My biggest complaint about the Dr. Cook's Bitless is the big rings at the end of the straps you connect the reins to. They have always felt clunky and unrefined. They put a ( Read more... )

There were so many things that Zetahra and I were going to do both in the short and long term that everything I had planned has had to be reshuffled ( Read more... )

I have been pushing and confronting Zetahra's death. Part of me wanted to hide from it, but there isn't any way to hide from the emptiness that is her not charging out of her stall in the evening, or into it in the morning. Playing with the hose as I try to fill the water buckets. A thousand little things that you notice when they are no longer ( Read more... )

I rode The Stink today. I decided to just climb on instead of lunge her first and see how it goes. She's not the smartest one, but she does tend to get recalcitrant when she is bored and maybe lungeing plus riding around in a circle is too much ( Read more... )

Yesterday Roxanne and I loaded up Gypsy and Z for a trail ride as I had a rare open morning. I had tried Suzy, but she was busy. She and Tommy have been there and done that. Gypsy is a good level horse, which makes her a good companion for a green horse and good for her rider too ( Read more... )