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  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 ...
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SUCCESS!!!

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  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...
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Brave Girl

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

 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
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Practicing

 test riding at home.. as best as possible in my arena with obstacles. easy enough test, but memorizing the in betweens is hard. just let me do it at a letter...  not lame... but a bit more weak/neuro/wobbly again. not bad, but losing her balance. bracing a bit on the left rein. let go holly!! it's half me. but had some good stuff photos: 9-26 test practice
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Big sticks

 jump lesson at barbaras falling hard when tracking right. motorcycling. but game and forward and BOLD photos: 9-26 big sticks videos
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Brilliant

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  Okay girl!! Way to woman up!   I rode Lyric at home today. I wanted to do a quick ride to make sure she would be sound for our lesson tomorrow. And she was! Yay! And her leg looked better before our ride and normal after our ride. Yay!   And despite it being stupid hot today... it was quite pleasant this morning and by the time I got on, the arena was shaded and there was a tiny bit of a breeze and there was a hint of coolness to the breeze. Plus the humidity had gone down a bit. So it was still hot enough that we were both sweating but it wasn't miserable.    We did a quick ride, mostly because she was so good! We warmed up and then did a little bit of lateral work. Can you move your shoulders off my outside rein? Yes! Can you move your haunches off my inside leg? Yes! Not as nicely as her shoulders, but not bad. Good girl. Then we trotted and she pretty much started off quite nice and stayed quite nice. I'm either getting better at riding her or she's gettin...
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