Winter Music

 photos: 4-26 progress good lesson. felt good in her body. got right on. need to swap out my bit, not happy in that bit and how it sits on her bars. worked on walk to trot. twist at C2 on the left. ride the garocha pole to left.  good girl

  Well, this morning may have been sad and depressing, but this afternoon was a good, hopeful day! I posted on the nobacknohorse facebook page about Lyric and a handful of people commented and basically said it sounded like I should just retire her. Um, cool... thanks for the advice and moral support... NOT! Ugh. Luckily the moderator sent me a private message saying they thought they could help and they would get back to me. So... whatever.    Anyways... they all got their teeth done this morning too. Lyric did have some sharp points on the right, so hopefully this will help with some of the fussiness with the bit. Although to be honest, I suspect it's more anxiety than anything else. Whether that anxiety is from pain... (although not sure what else it would be)??? She got cleared to go a whole year before her next visit. yay!   After they recovered, I took Dan to Ashland for a hack and some dressage. And then when I got home, I grabbed Lyric and got her groomed and...

 did our homework.  good groundwork... but fussy in the bit. fussy in the bit when i got off too. Not so much when i was on, but harder to tell. but rooty and stiff bending left under saddle. did our homework though of walk to trot to walk. more contact but... still didn't feel as good as the other day. hmmmm photos: 3-26 homework

  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