Winter Music

  Today was Lyrics turn to go to Ashland and hit the trails. After the storm, all the arena's were closed, so trails were our only option. Although we could have ridden at home. My arena was fine. But she needed some trail time.    We met up with Caroline and Murphy (Iago) and had a great walk. It was nice to catch up with Caroline. We haven't talked in awhile. So we chatted and just walked and walked. It was so nice. But after a bit, I had to pee and was getting hungry so I told her I had to go. We ended up trotting and cantering some on the way home, just for funsies.    Good pony! And Caroline and I are planning to do some jumping together too. Yay!

 darnit.. not as good of a ride. tried to do what I was doing in my lesson, but... didn't quite work. did manage to get some really nice moments, but... not easy. and took a bit. good girl though. trying.  less nagging on my part and she was more responsive :)  photos: 10-26 pre storm

  Oooooohhhh!! Lyric and I had such a great ride today with Liz!  We started off with Liz working on her. She always has that weird "toxic" feel to her. But, she's so good at releasing stuff and was doing all sorts of licking and chewing and yawning. She even let me do some fascial work and released a bunch. And she was frothy in her mouth afterwards. Interesting... especially since she is always drooling and doing weird mouth movements when I'm preparing their feed. Liz said she felt pretty good overall though, although there is some tension in her poll.  So we started off at the walk and we were tracking left. Liz had me close my eyes and ride her that way. It totally helped!! Ha ha. When I close my eyes, she starts marching more and gets straighter in her body. It's because I was riding her right shoulder to the inside... holding/half halting with my outside rein, and then sending her haunches out. For whatever reason though, closing my eyes helped. Probably be...

 shockwaved on wednesday before we left for tenn (we being me and dan). seemed better today. more willing to bend left, though i still had to work hard for it. better if I ride her leg yielding to the right and open the right rein and keep the left rein against her neck. still has a head tilt at the poll. need to work on that. trot also better to the left when I tapped her hind end with the whip to encourage her to swing her haunches out. dont' hang on the left rein holly! Either direction.  canters were decent today. worked on counter canter shallow serpentine. not bad. also did shoulder in some. got better leg yields. got some decent trot work, especially at the end. played with halts too. good pony photos: 10-26 post shockwave

 Back on proper mag dose. noticed she's straddling the trough again. Time for shockwave? adjust her sternum? Did after she was sitting on the trough... or was it cause she got tapered off her mag cause my order didn't arrive in time? We'll see. rode at home. Not great. but not bad. Slightly better than yesterday.  photos: 9-26 slightly better

 photos: 9-26 dusty ride, videos Rode with pivo. did a pretty good job. definitely too short int he neck. good to see. still very stiff bending left. but much better when i rode the right shoulder in and around, and octagon. she tried. canters felt less slappy/heavy. so yay.