Good day sunshine

"Whaaaat?"

The warm weather has finally begun! Woo-Hoo! The snow is getting soft and sinking into the ground, which is wonderful for the farmers. It also means that the pastures where I ride have better footing, which I took full advantage of yesterday. Sassy had her 8th ride yesterday; I rode her in their winter pen, and at first it was rather like pushing a wet noodle, and of course familiar things like the round bale feeder suddenly have horse-eating monsters lurking when one has a rider on top! So instead of getting in a battle and insisting that we ride past the bale feeder I took her down along the fenceline and rode her back and forth along that- I had to tap her butt with the rein a few times until she figured out that I wanted her to just travel out in a straight line. Once she was going relaxed there, we went up by the bale feeder again and I worked her in figure eights, changes of direction and stepping across on the front end; then we went past the feeder, which no longer had lurking monsters. So it was a good productive ride that ended on a realy good note.

After that I rode Beamer, just putting along through the snow, until I asked him to stop from a trot and he tried to throw his nose up and bull into the bridle- which of course, brought about a working session until I had him stopping softly on a loose rein! (He tries that every now and then when he hasn't been ridden for a while!)

Today I hope to get in another ride on Sassy, hopefully with pictures this time. I'll leave you with This one of Reba and Tess soaking up the sunshine while they were guarding the herd.