Winter Music

 lesson with kelly

  Oh yay!! It feels like it's been forever!   I volunteered at the Ashland show this morning.. just from 8:30 to 10:30, which wasn't bad. It was nice and overcast really. Great time to ride, but.. alas. The sun had come out by the time I got home but oh well.    I ended up taking Lyric out to Ashland and we met Kelli and Marvin. We went on a nice hour long trail ride. Lyric was putzy but Marvin always is, so it worked out well. She didn't seem sore.. just... I don't know.. lazy. She hasn't been ridden in forever and other than her lunge the other day, no work as she's been so foot sore. So I was expecting ... I don't know, potentially some antics. But she literally walked lazily on the buckle the entire time. Good girl!   We did finish up at the arenas and since the show was over, I went in and played a bit. She felt pretty good. Weak... and definitely lost the left hind (I believe) hard once. She feels a bit crooked... like she's falling hard to the lef...

 lunged after lesson.  MOSTLY sound... maybe left hind now? Stifle sticky? seems almost like she was mad at it but... that was like a three minute tantrum! ha ha.. gosh, that's gonna be fun to ride saturday. ;)  photos: tantrums videos: spoon and lunging

 

 Ugh.. lame So tired... patrick was coming at noonish... so I knew I needed to get up and ride. Ashlands' arena's were closed, but honestly I was too tired anyways. I tried to sleep in. didn't care anymore. then fed and took care of ponies, had a bowl of cereal, and then cleaned up barn for patrick. had to move the tractor. then finally was able to get on. Definitely NOT enough time to go to ashland anyways. Got tacked up at about 10:45... got on and then immediately got a text from Erin saying Patrick was leaving her farm but had my hay bale (he was there first so I had him grab my bale of hay). Of course.... Then got a text from Patrick saying ETA 11:15. Okay.. that's NOT NOON! ha ha. oh well. So... i figured we could walk around for 18 minutes or so and still have time. Maybe look for Dan's shoe.  Then Dan and Funny came whizzing by and Yay.. dan was trotting... but then Lyric got excited and almost dumped me. Twice. So then I decided we should go in the arena. s...

 Rode at home. So hot. Very good girl. got quite nice after we cantered, so.. maybe canter earlier. quick ride because hot and sweaty but good girl. ears much more consistently even!

  Oh Lyric!! Girl.... keep your panties on! ha ha.   I opted to take Lyric for my lesson today. Kelly could only teach me on one horse, so..I figured it was probably worth getting her take on the saddle and to get help with Lyric since Funny and I were still working on our homework. I almost instantly regretted it though. ha ha. She was in raging heat and saw some other horse that she didn't even know was there til it walked away, walk away, and danced around on the lead rope while still tied to the trailer. Screaming the whole time too! Then I managed to get her tacked up and went to the arena to warm up and she was distracted but functioning. And then Kelly came down... and then Prairie and Caroline walked by on their geldings and Lyric lost it! Screaming... spinning.... threatening to rear! Oh girl.... get it together!   So... Kelly put us to work quickly. She had me trot and then do a 20 meter circle, then spiral down to a 15 meter circle, then a 10 meter circle... an...