Winter Music

  Lyric and I had a lovely ride today. The weather was threatening all day but despite the weather channel saying it was going to be raining all day, it never really did. We maybe got a tiny bit of a misting at the very end of my ride with Lyric and then when the trick or treaters were about to come around on the hay wagon, it drizzled lightly for about 10 minutes. Pathetic. Ha ha. But I am glad I got to ride. I rode Funny this morning at Ashland and when I got back I was starving. And the weather was looking like it might actually rain, so I decided to take a chance and make mac-n-cheese. If I got rained out, so be it. I was hungry! Luckily the weather held and it was just as threatening looking but not actually raining as before lunch, so.. I went for it.  We had a good ride. She started out quite lovely!! Even going to the left. She's much more soft in her bend now and I've figured out how to help her with my position. If I post to the outside and especially if I guide her ...

  Well, this morning I went out to get Funny for our ride and all three of them were by the arena, watching Jean's crew ride. I gave them all cookies and caught Funny. But then Lyric got all spicy and let out a big buck, IN MY GENERAL DIRECTION! Oh no.... nope... nopity nope. I had been trying to talk to Jean so I excused myself, unclipped the lead from Funny and threw it at Lyric!! No ma'am! Which of course just made her more bouncy so she let out another buck towards me. Okay... this is NOT okay ma'am! So I chased her off a bit. But by then it had dawned on me that Jean's trainer was on the baby horse who is "crazy", So I let it go. And by then, I was able to walk Funny away without any more shenanigans.    After lunch I decided to ride Lyric but I was really tight on time. (or so I thought). I didn't get done eating my lunch until 2:50 and the saddle fitter was coming at 4 pm. So I knew it would be tight. We did a speed groom and I tacked her up and we ...

  I couldn't do another arena ride with Lyric. Maybe I should have since we need to work on things, but I just couldn't. So instead... we headed to Ashland.        We had a glorious hack. She was a bit slow at the walk but she was walking in good form with a nice topline. I let her be on the loose rein mostly but we had good form so I didn't worry. We did some trotting and she got a bit more forward with that. And she felt sound, so yay for that! I also let her be on a loose rein for most of it. We even did a little canter in the woods.        After we thoroughly enjoyed a nice long hack in the woods, we headed to the cross country field for a tiny bit of field dressage. She wasn't too bad. She felt more bendy even to the left, but we also had ALLLLLLL the room so it might have just been that our circles were really really big. ;) She did lose her hind end a few times and got a little carried away and "ran away" with me at the trot. She got r...

  Not Funny's baucher, but my old school baucher. The french link. I think she kind of liked it. She was drooling a LOT!. Which, i'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. We just rode at home because I spent a good bit of the day doing chores and then helping Mike put my graphics on my bike and then we rode to Mansfield for lunch and then for dippin dots. And I had hacked Dan at Ashland too.    Anyways, we started off nicely and I did my homework. And our trot work was pretty decent. But then the middle got kinda yucky again. I don't know if it's because she got tired or I stopped riding as "allowing" and was expecting a bit more... but she got more braced and crooked again. I managed to figure out how to soften and get her to soften with me, but the middle was a struggle. We did finish with some really nice work though at least. In that bit for sure I need to not bring my hands down and almost lift them. But she prefers to go deep before she softens up....