Rope work and gates

I started swinging a rope from Gussie yesterday. I sacked her out with it first, swinging it from the ground and flipping it all over her. She looked bored. I did the same from the saddle. She still looked bored. We dragged the rope from both sides, backward and forward. She still looked bored. When I finally got the kinks out of the rope (this is an old heeling rope, way too snarly) I swung it and threw it. Ho hum, says Gussie. So I figured I'd challenge her a little and we went to work on opening and closing gates. That went really well, she side passes up to them nicely and waits for me to open them, calmly walks through and sidepasses away to close them. This was our third session on gates, the first lesson she didn't know what I wanted and wasn't having any part of it, the second lesson she complained but got it figured, and this third lesson, no problem. I challenged her a little more after I was done my ride on her, and got on her bareback with just a halter, and we did the gates again. It was a little more interesting because I was still wearing my spurs and have to lean quite a bit to open the gate- Gussie is a tall horse, and I'm tall too, so I gave her a little too much leg and she swung her hip too far so I lost contact with the gate, but we got 'er done, a couple of times in fact. So tomorrow when I ride, I'll have to try and build a roping dummy (and find a better rope!) or maybe find a tire to drag like KDW was doing with Grey.