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Winter is desperately hanging on. Yesterday I had a nice ride in the sunshine, took a trip down to the swimming hole to dream of summer days.
The river never did freeze completely over this winter. There are little duck tracks all over the ice near the open water.
We made our way to the water, I listened to the soothing sound of flowing water while Gussie checked out a dog and his people who were walking the trail nearby.
Today we have more snow. Soft wet almost rain type snow.
Then- bam! we are in for a week of sunshine and warm weather starting on Thursday! Yippee! Let's get this snow melted. Oh wait.... then comes mud..... can't win!
Shayla has been working Drifter nearly every day and he is really progressing. But as is usual with colts sometimes they take a step back....
He tried to put one over on Shayla by leaping and rearing on the longe line... but when he realised that wasn't going to work he stood there with this ultimate mad face for about 2 minutes while he thought about it....
and thought about it some more.....
and then he just went to work and did what he was supposed to do! Such a character! He tries to say no and do what he wants, and when that doesn't work he thinks about it and just goes to work. Good boy!
Yesterday she tried something new to him. Packing a saddle blanket, sacking him out with it, and longeing him wearing it and letting it slip off him. All good! Then she asked him to walk over it... I had a good laugh at his antics!
Belle update- no sign of bagging up yet! Those of you who have guessed early dates will be given a second chance at a guess once the date of your guess has passed.
Riding day 21
Riding day 21
5 comments:
it'll be cool to see Drifter!:)
silly boy...just remove the obstacle! :)
If he ends up being really gentle, then I'd like to ride him when he is an ole broke horse :) big horses tend to make me nervous, but that can be overcome by being around said big horse,and having my wonderful sis, Shirley to train me :)
Mother Nature sure likes to keep things interesting. Our sudden Spring melt happened so fast it made our general area flood, and also turned unmelted snow into ice. So much ice that our horses had to stay in again, for three long days. Hopefully for the last time this year. Your views are breathtaking any time of year!
I don't envy you, Aurora. Down here at the coast, its spring like, and its warm, and beautiful. I love it, just not the excessive overly populated areas.
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