hunterseat
Posted : 10/15/2017 5:48:21 PM
Home from Jersey. Loved the time spent with the horses. Stayed at a small, affordable motel that I thought would be mine alone but the guy decided to go at the last minute...I might have gotten a "better" one had I known there were standards to uphold. The room was fine. (and cheap)
Horses were phenomenal just because I got to mess with them. One I was told to just do ground work and I LOVE that. Good thing that's what was wanted because as soon as he was in cross ties he was being a bugger. I can't do squat in cross ties so I took him to the arena and commenced to making him want to behave. :) I ended up in love, as usual. We had fun. On the way back to the pasture his head was down, he was leading so nicely and I wanted to take him home. Every little success is a building block to a great horse. He was on the track 2 weeks ago. One horse I rode (the last of the day/weekend) was like dragging a bag of cement out of the pasture (after a quarter mile walk to get him). He was not excited to go do a little work. As I'm tacking up people started telling me about the time he acted up on a trail, the time he was so bad, the time he reared up. "But he'll probably do fine for you" *gulp* I tried to give him things to do to occupy his mind and make him think. They don't expect the little puzzles that are out there. He ended up doing fine. So all total I rode 6 or 7, did ground work with one, hand grazed one, AND chased 3 around with 3 other girls. I guess someone was getting a horse out and 3 of them pushed by out the pasture gate. Scary to have them loose when there's access to (1) roads and (2) stud horses. We almost had a train wreck.
Anyway, fun there with the horses. It's so nice being around friends and people who make me feel like they appreciate me. Such a change from my normal life. *as smoke seeps from my ears*