We’ve been out of town for a few days, which means none of our horses have been ridden. Sometimes when we have our pick of who to ride and we’re not in any sort of pattern, it can be hard to decide. Today I settled on Steen and Brian decided to ride Bear. Seen’s leg… Read more »
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Cloudy Day, Long Ride
Last week I redesigned this blog again. I liked the old design for a long time and then it slowly started to annoy me, so we’ve got a totally fresh approach now. We didn’t ride Thursday or Friday, so we were keen to get out there today. My goal for the ride was to continue… Read more »
Catching Up
I’ve fallen a bit behind on my blog. Fortunately I have been getting plenty of riding in, I just haven’t done a good job posting about my rides. To sum up: Last week I continued to work quite a lot on loping. We went through a couple of days where the loping work had the undesirable effect… Read more »
A Rough Ride for Everyone
Today, things started out promising. The weather continues to be beyond perfect. We started out with some groundwork and working on detail stuff. I had excellent success with yielding Steen’s forequarters and hindquarters separately and softly under saddle. We headed out to the big pasture and meandered out way up to the hilltop. We worked… Read more »
Defeating the Prance
Saturday I went to the barn with one goal in mind. I was going to address the prance issue. I was going to be effective but even-tempered. I was going to respond consistently and without emotion to every transgression. There was going to be no forgiveness, but no punishment either. Only logical consequences. Brian and… Read more »
Some Interesting Rides
It’s been quite a week at the barn. Saturday Our friend Jean came out to take some photos of us and the horses. She got some nice shots of us hanging around on the second strip. And our first ever “family photo.” Sunday The horses were in their winter lot with bales to munch on,… Read more »
A Good Fit
My new bit and headstall both arrived last week, but since Brian and I had our Sunday trail ride planned I decided not to try them out until afterwards. I intended to test the new combo yesterday, but work did not permit. This morning I woke up and it was dark and raining, but things… Read more »
A Step in the Right Direction
We got to the barn early again today, and although it didn’t cool off much in the night and it was pretty humid, there was a nice breeze that kept things from feeling too bad. I did some groundwork with Steen before mounting. I’ve been starting to teach him to side-pass from the ground, and… Read more »
Steen the Solid
We had threats of storms today but nothing materialized, so Brian and I headed out to the barn in the early afternoon. We found the horses a little more settled than yesterday, and were out riding on the strip before long. I was bareback and after Brian gave me a leg up Steen did something… Read more »
Five Days, Four Rides, No Photos
It’s been an interesting week and I’m well behind on the blogging so I’m going go try to catch up in one post. I also have been horrible neglectful with the camera lately, so have no images to go with these reports. Wednesday: Ride OneSteen and I rode with Bear and Brian on the strip.… Read more »