Winter Music

 opted to work her after waffling all morning set up ground poles with cheap plastic flower pots. hack! kinda worked. did jec's plan for rehabbing thoracic sling and horses who fall on the forehand. jean's cat joined us. lyric was good. did the stretches... the tail thing, the head thing and the exercises.  good pony photos: chilly snuggles, cold sunset, pole day, post snow sunset, snow moon, and snuggly warm

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 roundpen lunge. did pillars. then walked v poles. then trotted in hand/lunged. tracking left is harder to get her soft and reaching, but she did. did a few transitions to walk and over the poles then back to trot. 5 minutes each way and another two laps tracking left again. did get soft and happy in her neck but not sure about her back. seems tight again but hard to tell because I had to run with her. stretched decently though. but not willing to lift for belly tucks. a little fussy and chewy/chompy at the end. no gear other than rope halter and lunge line. 

 photos: 1-26 cold lunge  and 1-26 napping  good girl. pillars, then walked raised poles. singles and groups of alternating. lunged 5 minutes each way at trot. much happier. did figure 8 with polo (took 3 polos!). seems happier. not chompy . didn't canter. did some lateral work. even played with figure 8's at trot in hand to help with her undersaddle transitions. good pony sleeping, so yay. haven't seen her on the water trough but also haven't been outside much cause cold! shockwaved back after. also did sternum. seemed happier with back than previously. 

  Today I almost didn't work Lyric because.. there's a supposed ice storm coming and I expected it to hit earlier. And it was getting cold. And I had stuff to do, but... I managed to get it all done so... Lyric got lunged. :) I set up some of the grid jumps that Jean had set up into cavalettis and we went to the arena. She was a good girl. We started with some pillar walking and it was good. She got nice and stretchy. And we did our side step turns. Then we walked over the cavalettis a few times.    Then I tried to lunge her. But she was not really wanting to go, so I had to jog with her. Fine... fair enough... I don't want to work either. So we'll both lunge... except then I got tired so I had to lunge her instead of jog with her. Plus it was sort of hard to tell how her posture was when I was next to her. But I did manage to get some decent pillar trots. And on the lunge we had moments of tension and bracing but also some good moments of bend and softness. Then I trie...

 Today was supposed to be a day off... I tried to take Thursday and Friday off for my birthday. But.. ended up adding two in the morning today.. and then had to add Kelli. And then had to get feed. And it was raining all day so it was okay. Just... everything took longer than it should have. But I did manage to get home and get the truck hitched back up.  I put Lyric in the washrack to do her osphos in case she tried to bite. She was good! I don't think she liked it but she didn't react much more than with her adequan. So then I decided that since I had time and the rain had stopped I would take her in the roundpen and walk some poles. Especially since the osphos can make them a little fussy for 30 minutes. I went ahead and did her massage gun thing on her back for 10 minutes first. She was sort of enjoying it and sort of unhappy. Which... is probaby mostly from the massage gun... I was hoping she'd like it better today after her shockwave Tuesday.  Then we headed to the ...