Winter Music

 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.

  I must be hormonal because I am a bit cranky today. Well... actually.. I was a bit emotional today. Dan made me cranky. But.. I'm still cranky tonight, long after Dan made me cranky, so... probably hormones. And, apparently Lyric is hormonal too because she is in heat.    I rode her after I rode Dan and.. meh. It wasn't a great ride. It wasn't horrible. Just.. really not great. We flatted at home and she was just really struggling to bend left. I can't seem to get her off the left rein and into the right rein and she's getting hollow tracking left. Interestingly though, when we sit the trot, it's easier to bend left. Maybe because she's slower and more rocked back onto her haunches? I don't know. My brain is too tired and cranky to think through it. Maybe it's just because she's in heat.    Our canters still feel very heavy again, but at least they are canters and not just flailing legs again. So yeah.. I tried some transitions, but.. meh. It j...

  I was torn on which horse to take for my lesson but since Laura was out (Smarty is still healing from his abscess) I thought I might do a flat lesson with Jacel. But then while I was riding Funny she texted asking if it was okay to cancel. Of course! And honestly... I was sort of wanting to flat her on my own for the day anyways, so it worked out just fine. Saved me some gas money too!    So after I had lunch I got Lyric and we headed up to the arena. She was a good girl and we did our warm up and then we trotted. And she felt great!! Back to her normal good self. No more speed mode. I was able to get her bouncing and lifting in her back again and on her hind end and soft. She felt so good I was wondering how much more I should do. We played a little bit with lengthening across the diagonal and did the trot poles.    Then we cantered. And it felt very heavy on the forehand. Like, you could hear her slapping onto the ground. I tried to ride her up with my core ...

  I'm so proud of Lyric!! And me too, a little bit. :) We womaned up! We put on our big girl panties. And we had FUN!!! I say it all the time, but I really do thank God for putting Jacel into my life. She has been so instrumental in so many things, including helping me become the horsewomen my horse's each need me to be. I was freaking out a few days ago when I saw this course. And Lyric and I were doing okay but our last cross country school wasn't exactly what I wanted it to be. So when I hacked the course the other day with Funny and saw that it was basically shared with Novice for 80% of the course and had a good chunk of big fences on it (thankfully NOT the sharksteeth or the table) I was freaking out. Especially because the first three fences had some serious terrain and I know how Lyric's big shoulders tend to take over. But, thanks to our BIG jump lesson on Tuesday, I was feeling a bit braver. And then, that gave us the confidence to have a good and confidence b...

 So brave. XC lesson at ashland missing shoe on at 10 pm, patrick saves the day! photos: 9-26 so brave, videos

 Weirdo! ha ha. adjusted and she felt really good. did the femoral nerve glide and adjusted and got tons of good yawns and releases. felt much better than I expected honestly. then she was jealous after when i did dan. Or wanted dinner ;) photos: 9-26 weirdo