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Oct. 3rd, 2004 06:02 pmToday I took Thyme out and ran her over a big huge sheet of black plastic tarp stuff. She wasn't impressed, but she (eventually) went across. She has gotten a pretty good grip on the go-forward cue. She still runs over me, though. *sigh* I also drug Nick out of the field, fed her a can of grain, and threw her at the tarp, too. No big deal. I made her back up over it. Still no big deal. I told her she was a good horse and put her back in the field.
Aunt Alice (Owner of Stoney. Not my aunt.) needed to go over to Odie's to take pictures of the Tamar/Stoney yearling filly (full sister to Thyme) so Liss and Alice and I went over there. On the way back, we stopped at Ruth's to look in on Galen's new stud colt again. Galen was there and had the colt out of the field, working with him. The stud, while still just a baby, has nice bone, lovely shoulders, and square, well-set-on legs. He's not stunning about the head, but he may grow into that. Glory did. He's got potential, I think. Galen's grey mare (half-sister to Meat on the mare side, half sister to Nick on the stud side) is getting riding size. She's a lovely thing, reminds me of both of her parents in a good way.
When we got back to the house, Lynn had come over and she was going riding. I got suckered/shamed/teased into taking the insane red horse out for a spin. Along the road. Where, y'know, there might be cars and stuff. They promised to save me in the event of traffic. *heh* Yeah, right. So we went off, down to the covered bridge. Liss had Martini, La had Mariah (who bucks), Lynn had Elklin, Cass had Casper, Boo had Eikon, Lynn's daughter had Chelsea, and I had Nick. Everyone was riding by themselves except Boo, who was being led by Liss. On the way there, we didn't have any traffic. In fact, we went across the covered bridge and up the hill to the stop sign and turned around and started back the way we'd come before we saw any traffic.
As we went down the hill on the way back to the covered bridge, a big blue pickup truck came up around the turn. A polite, local pickup truck, it came to a stop when it saw us. We went around it. Nick wasn't happy, but she behaved pretty well given that it was a fairly narrow situation (lane and a half paved road on the side of a cliff) and I was thrilled that we lived. (I have low expectations.)
We went across the covered bridge again and headed up the hill on the way home. A white pickup truck came by from behind. Nick didn't like that much at all but we did the one-rein nose-to-knee thing with two high-speed small teeny circles and once the truck went by, she was fine. I felt pretty good about that, at least after the fact. During the fact, I wasn't too thrilled. It was pretty exciting there for a bit.
After that, we got to the top of the hill where, if we turned left, we'd be headed home. Instead, we turned right, to go down by the dirt road at Calhoun's. There was a riding mower with a guy on it, and he pulled over and stopped for us to go by, so that was pretty okay. Right past that, a dog came out of nowhere. Martini (Liss's horse) and Eikon (Boo's horse) were in front and they spooked, so Nick, who was directly behind them, spooked too. Boo fell off. In the midst of this excitement, a cop car came by on the road. Nick took a good, hard look at that, but she stayed pretty still under the circumstances. When I got her stopped, I hopped off and went over to pick up Livyboo because she was small enough to get stomped in the event of further stupidity. Nick was quite sensible about the whole thing, considering that Martini and Eikon and Casper spooked pretty badly and Boo and Cass (on Casper) fell off or dismounted rather unexpectedly. My horse came to a stop when I asked her to and I dismounted intentionally onto my feet and kept control of my horse in the process -- that ain't no wreck in my book.
I led Nick down to the dirt road (maybe fifty yards away) at Calhoun's and we got off the paved road. Lynn (riding Elklin) hopped off to give me a leg up, and we were fine for the rest of the ride. I have *got* to learn how to get on this horse without a leg up. (She's a couple of inches taller than Meat at the shoulder and I don't leap well in tight jeans. I need looser pants and more leaping practice, I expect.)
On the plus side, we lived through THREE VEHICLES and I got to try out my new bareback pad, which really is as cool as Lala said it was. It's most nifty. I borrowed a cinch from La but since Nick is a narrow drink of water, I need to get my own (shorter) cinch... 31" is too long, really, and it wouldn't go tight enough to not slide around. State Line is going to wind up with more of my money, not that this is a surprise.
I was thinking about mowing the lawn today, but I didn't. It was a good day even without lawn-mowing.
Aunt Alice (Owner of Stoney. Not my aunt.) needed to go over to Odie's to take pictures of the Tamar/Stoney yearling filly (full sister to Thyme) so Liss and Alice and I went over there. On the way back, we stopped at Ruth's to look in on Galen's new stud colt again. Galen was there and had the colt out of the field, working with him. The stud, while still just a baby, has nice bone, lovely shoulders, and square, well-set-on legs. He's not stunning about the head, but he may grow into that. Glory did. He's got potential, I think. Galen's grey mare (half-sister to Meat on the mare side, half sister to Nick on the stud side) is getting riding size. She's a lovely thing, reminds me of both of her parents in a good way.
When we got back to the house, Lynn had come over and she was going riding. I got suckered/shamed/teased into taking the insane red horse out for a spin. Along the road. Where, y'know, there might be cars and stuff. They promised to save me in the event of traffic. *heh* Yeah, right. So we went off, down to the covered bridge. Liss had Martini, La had Mariah (who bucks), Lynn had Elklin, Cass had Casper, Boo had Eikon, Lynn's daughter had Chelsea, and I had Nick. Everyone was riding by themselves except Boo, who was being led by Liss. On the way there, we didn't have any traffic. In fact, we went across the covered bridge and up the hill to the stop sign and turned around and started back the way we'd come before we saw any traffic.
As we went down the hill on the way back to the covered bridge, a big blue pickup truck came up around the turn. A polite, local pickup truck, it came to a stop when it saw us. We went around it. Nick wasn't happy, but she behaved pretty well given that it was a fairly narrow situation (lane and a half paved road on the side of a cliff) and I was thrilled that we lived. (I have low expectations.)
We went across the covered bridge again and headed up the hill on the way home. A white pickup truck came by from behind. Nick didn't like that much at all but we did the one-rein nose-to-knee thing with two high-speed small teeny circles and once the truck went by, she was fine. I felt pretty good about that, at least after the fact. During the fact, I wasn't too thrilled. It was pretty exciting there for a bit.
After that, we got to the top of the hill where, if we turned left, we'd be headed home. Instead, we turned right, to go down by the dirt road at Calhoun's. There was a riding mower with a guy on it, and he pulled over and stopped for us to go by, so that was pretty okay. Right past that, a dog came out of nowhere. Martini (Liss's horse) and Eikon (Boo's horse) were in front and they spooked, so Nick, who was directly behind them, spooked too. Boo fell off. In the midst of this excitement, a cop car came by on the road. Nick took a good, hard look at that, but she stayed pretty still under the circumstances. When I got her stopped, I hopped off and went over to pick up Livyboo because she was small enough to get stomped in the event of further stupidity. Nick was quite sensible about the whole thing, considering that Martini and Eikon and Casper spooked pretty badly and Boo and Cass (on Casper) fell off or dismounted rather unexpectedly. My horse came to a stop when I asked her to and I dismounted intentionally onto my feet and kept control of my horse in the process -- that ain't no wreck in my book.
I led Nick down to the dirt road (maybe fifty yards away) at Calhoun's and we got off the paved road. Lynn (riding Elklin) hopped off to give me a leg up, and we were fine for the rest of the ride. I have *got* to learn how to get on this horse without a leg up. (She's a couple of inches taller than Meat at the shoulder and I don't leap well in tight jeans. I need looser pants and more leaping practice, I expect.)
On the plus side, we lived through THREE VEHICLES and I got to try out my new bareback pad, which really is as cool as Lala said it was. It's most nifty. I borrowed a cinch from La but since Nick is a narrow drink of water, I need to get my own (shorter) cinch... 31" is too long, really, and it wouldn't go tight enough to not slide around. State Line is going to wind up with more of my money, not that this is a surprise.
I was thinking about mowing the lawn today, but I didn't. It was a good day even without lawn-mowing.
