Well nothing too spectacular happened this weekend. Saturday we had drill practice again and I got to use my new trailer for the first time. All I have to say is – that is a long trailer! I’ll admit I was a bit nervous about driving with it but I got to my location and home all in one piece.
The horses seemed to travel better but they were in a bit of a hurry to back out when we got to the arena so it looks like a little “trailer loading 101” refresher might be in their future.
Practice went well. Our new member is picking up quickly. The horses were a bit tired after not being worked that hard for a few weeks. Plus it was almost 90 degrees out so it was pretty warm for us.
My sister would like to learn more about the horses and she’s been playing with Nikki so I showed her how to do LFR with Nikki. Of course she’s lazy so it wasn’t done at lightening speed but my sister got the gist of the exercise.
Yesterday her kids came back home and she saddled up Nikki for Shari and let her ride in the RP. While Shari was riding, Heather started to rub on Abby who had been standing on the outside of the round pen. I went out and caught her, brought her into the barn and saddled her up for Heather. For some reason Abby freaked when I went to through the saddle up on her so there is something else we need to work on.
I did some LFR with Abby (who is finally starting to get it) and then took her to the RP. I jumped on briefly just to make sure she was going to be ok and then let Heather ride her. I about fell to the ground in laughter when Shari said “MOM! Put your heels down!” There’s nothing like taking riding advice from your 6 yr. old daughter.
They seemed to get alone fine and I left Heather some CA videos so she can start to understand why we do some of the things we do.
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