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which_chick) wrote2010-08-11 09:42 pm
which_chick) wrote2010-08-11 09:42 pm
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I've been having tomatoes and mayo for dinner. It's August, time for as many tomatoes as I can eat. (About three large beefsteaks per evening, as it happens.)
Been doing pony every day after work, mostly walk-trot with Waylie. Today Heather came along to ride Callie. (Regular readers will recall that I broke Callie to ride in 2008 -- she's a kindly, boring mare without a mean bone in her body.) It was an OK outing, review of the stuff we've been doing with a bit more trot than before. Heather did her trotting for competitive trail once she finally got Callie caught. (Callie does not like Heather, either.)
We're still saddle-free because Taku is healing up. It'll probably be another week until she's good to go under saddle again, so it's rather a lot of walk-jog stuff. Extending the trot on Taku (and on Nick) is not particularly fun -- they're both rough as ten miles of bad road -- and I can't sit Nick's big trot any more than Waylie can sit Taku's big trot. I'm riding bareback in solidarity with Waylie, guess my seat will get better the same way that his will. Or not.
I need more things for him to do at the walk and trot. I'd like circles to be round. I'd like bending to happen. The pole bending DVD has some exercises that we can do at the walk and trot, which I will try to get Waylie to work on starting next week. Backing up. Moving hindquarters around. Moving forehand around. Maybe we could do more with ground poles. Cavaletti might be nice, I guess. Cass is working on painting the barrels, is almost done with that. Once I get those set up, we can work on those, too. Better transitions, smoother and lighter, walk-trot-walk-halt, repeat as needed.
Been doing pony every day after work, mostly walk-trot with Waylie. Today Heather came along to ride Callie. (Regular readers will recall that I broke Callie to ride in 2008 -- she's a kindly, boring mare without a mean bone in her body.) It was an OK outing, review of the stuff we've been doing with a bit more trot than before. Heather did her trotting for competitive trail once she finally got Callie caught. (Callie does not like Heather, either.)
We're still saddle-free because Taku is healing up. It'll probably be another week until she's good to go under saddle again, so it's rather a lot of walk-jog stuff. Extending the trot on Taku (and on Nick) is not particularly fun -- they're both rough as ten miles of bad road -- and I can't sit Nick's big trot any more than Waylie can sit Taku's big trot. I'm riding bareback in solidarity with Waylie, guess my seat will get better the same way that his will. Or not.
I need more things for him to do at the walk and trot. I'd like circles to be round. I'd like bending to happen. The pole bending DVD has some exercises that we can do at the walk and trot, which I will try to get Waylie to work on starting next week. Backing up. Moving hindquarters around. Moving forehand around. Maybe we could do more with ground poles. Cavaletti might be nice, I guess. Cass is working on painting the barrels, is almost done with that. Once I get those set up, we can work on those, too. Better transitions, smoother and lighter, walk-trot-walk-halt, repeat as needed.