At least for the past two days. The middle of the week was down right yucky. I ended up giving Bear three days off because of the weather, and just general tireds on my part. In fact, it was a little hard to get to the barn Friday afternoon because the week felt so long… Read more »
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Soft Feel, At the Walk!
This one has been eluding us for some weeks. Actually, a couple months. Shortly after the clinic when I started getting the soft feel consistently while we were standing, I started asking for it at the walk. And never getting it. I kept it up for some time, but I just don’t think I was… Read more »
A Learning Experience
I know I haven’t blogged in almost two weeks, but I have a decent reason. I fell of Bear about 10 days ago. Leading up to the fall the ride was going to be very blogable, but I ended up landing on my wrist, and typing has not been the first thing I want to… Read more »
A Sluggish Sunday
Sometimes I can get a little tired on weekend days. I think I end up sitting around a little too much and drinking coffee longer than I should. Usually getting out in the fresh air gets me going again, but it didn’t today, despite the gorgeous weather. It was just like yesterday, only not quite… Read more »
Indian Summer
Yesterday was the first of October, and while the temperatures only got up into the mid 60s, the horses were hot. Their dark, fuzzy, winter coats have been coming in for weeks now. Little do they know most of next week will be in the 70s, and possibly even the 80s. On Saturday I had… Read more »
Big Hills and Soft Feels
We received a couple of the photos from our friend Jean. They are definitely nice, but I somehow didn’t think they would look so much like horse glamour shots. Maybe it is just that I haven’t had a professional style shoot in many, many years. We do look pretty sharp in them. It is extra… Read more »
The Big Pasture
It has been a few rides since I blogged. They were not too exciting. Each one seemed a little worse than the previous one. I think it was due to two things, I was continually asking Bear to do more and more, and he was continually getting less and less food. It seemed to make… Read more »
Short Serpentines
Today was cloudy and somewhat cool. When we walked out to the pasture all the horses were out of sight except Bear, who was tucked into a corner of the windblock. When he heard our voices he turned around to look at us. After watching for a few moments he wandered over to me while… Read more »
Can You Feel Me Now?
A few months ago I read Bill Dorrance’s text book sized work, True Horsemanship Through Feel. At nearly 400 pages, it was a lot to take in. But I took away an awful lot of ideas. The main one was obviously “feel.” The things I read about feel helped me work with leading Bear and… Read more »
He’s Big Bear
He’s iron tough. Sort of. At other times he’s a big softy. And he hates walking on gravel. Still, the minute I learned his name was Bear, this song popped into my head. We couldn’t have written a better song for him. Big Bear 2010-2011 from Robin D on Vimeo. Today’s ride didn’t really look… Read more »