Thursday, October 20, 2011

I Love Fall!

Today was such a gorgeous day to do anything, let alone my favorite thing; riding!  I went out a little later than usual to let the temps rise over 50 degrees.  I pulled Kramer out of the round pen, tacked him up and took him back to the round pen for some free longeing.  He was very sound and after several mins, I took him back in the barn and rode in the arena.  I think we both did well, but lots of work is needed to make the transition from the canter to the trot nicer. Right now, it's a head up running trot kind of thing. 
Showmanship went pretty well and we ended it when he did a nice pivot, crossing his front legs 3x's to get to where he was nice and straight.  Good boy!
There is a new lady taking lessons at the barn and she is quite the talker; the type that follows you around everywhere telling you her business, all her business.  She was using words like:  "casted" as in "My horse got casted in the pasture."  Or: "stimini" as in "my mare has a lot of stimini".  What's that??  Stamina??? or she's sweats a lot so she's steamy? Then she talks in circles:  My mare is 1/2 arab, 1/2 qtr. because her mom is arab and her dad is a paint......what?  "I didn't have any problems getting hay, yeah I've got a barn full."  Two seconds later:  "I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get hay or not."  Lord help me, she followed me around for at least 30 mins. or 2 hrs.....I'm not sure anymore!
Took a picture of Kramer in his sheet, he kept it on for 2 days!  Altho' I had to move his stall light again.  Today he hit it to where it was pointed towards Armani's stall!  Such a goof.

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