Winter Music

  Today was great! I've put three 10 minute walk rides on Lyric and so I figured it was a good time to get Liz to teach us. Plus, Liz had time for all three today, so yay! I'm soooo grateful that God worked it out for us to get to lesson together! She's been so helpful and amazing! So I groomed Lyric real quick and tacked her up in the jump saddle and we headed up to the arena. Liz did some reiki/energy work with her and said she felt pretty good. We started off with some of our in hand work. The backing... the leg yields... and then the keep your nose right but stay off your right shoulder. Liz did some more work and reminded me to really be adamant that she doesn't just shift to the left but she doesn't keep bouncing back to the right. And then she said when we do our leg yields... when we're tracking left, it's super easy for her because she gets to dump on the right front. So instead of leg yielding traditionally... she wants me to do the leg yield but b...

 nickered at me. :) Awwww walked up jeans driveway and did some groundwork, then lunged 10 minutes at trot. then rode 10 min. chompy on the lunge.. the bit??? vs the saddle? not as noticeably chompy under saddle. worked on bend and leg yield. leg yields nice! walked home photos: 3-26 ride three

 parked on trough after ride.. and also this am i think. much more frequently it seems. or i'm seeing it more. not as good as yesterday but still not bad today. left bend hard photos: 3-26 another ride

straddling trough this am though,  ten minutes, but still. walk only, but still seemed happy too  good posture still photos: we rode, beautiful sunset, and yet again

 had christy coming so decided to work them first this morning.  did postural work... leg yield... backing up... shoulder in... more shoulder in... then let her stand there while I did dan, then ponied over poles. she kicked dan in his left stifle hard. but was so close that luckily i think he's fine. But i was so mad.. then so sad... i whacked her and then after i made sure dan was okay i lunged her. she looked pretty good actually... not quite tracking up but closer than usual.  turned her loose. christy came. loved her. so sweet and good girl. was tight and had some major restrictions but christy got a lot accomplished and seemed to make good progress with her. may go ahead and start walking her under saddle. christy said as bad as she is, she's not that bad. if that makes sense. and it does. oddly. ;) So.. maybe tomorrow we'll start with 10 min of walking as many days as we can and then add 5 minutes every week. 

  Maybe a little TOOOO much fun. ;)  Lyric's had a few days off... I think it's been at least since Tuesday since I worked her because I worked Wed and Thurs, ran out of time Fri, was gone for the weekend, and worked yesterday... So whoops! And ugh.. this morning when I went out to grab Funny for our ride... she was doing it again. Sigh... I came home around 5 pm from my neuro appt today and headed out to the pasture armed with stuff to do some work. I caught her and we headed to the arena. I took her blanket off and put the figure 8 polo wrap on and we did a short lap and then I did her scapula stretches. Then we marched around the arena at the walk, nice and forward, with a slight right shift in her neck to help her balance and stay straight. We went both directions. Then I played with leg yielding down the long side both ways and she did great. We did turn on the forehand and turn on the haunches. And then we backed up. She's getting really good at backing! Then we did t...