Quick (for me) Update

Saturday we brought Cat and Sis home (to my parents’’ house). The weather was lovely so MIL and I headed out for a ride. I decided to put spurs on just in case I needed them. Lucy does a pretty good job of ignoring my crop when she wants to so I thought maybe they’d be a little more incentive if I needed them.

We headed out and the drunken horse automatically appeared. She is getting better but it is still annoying. There is some trash down by the cattle that she doesn’t like. She isn’t bad she just wants to veer into the middle of the road instead of staying on the side so I took the opportunity to do some flexing and rollbacks until the trash didn’t look like such a big deal.

I was a bit surprised. She did the bending exercise very well with the spurs (last time w/bump spurs I still had issues). We headed down the road until we heard sirens. Lucy and Sis both stopped to see what was going on. There was apparently a grass fire down the road as several fire trucks headed down the intersection we had just gone through. Neither horse acted nervous, they more so wanted to just see what was going on.

We continued on and did a little bit of trotting and a little bit of vertical flexion. Lucy’s attention drifted when we got up by the neighbors’ horses so we did a bit of bending. It didn’t take long for her to focus on me instead of the horses. As we rounded the corner onto the next road we passed a concrete planter. Kind of like the garbage she just slowly veered away from it. I decided it was time to fix this as well so Sis and MIL sat back while Lucy and I did rollbacks and circles around the planter. Boy can she move off of her hind end when she wants to! It took about 15 minutes before she would even look at the planter but once she figured it out she was all for touching it.

The rest of the ride was pretty uneventful, some trotting here, stopping off of rein only there, and a little loping up the big hill here. That has to be Lucy’s favorite (not). On the way home we worked on collection at the trot. This isn’t Lucy’s favorite but she did do her best. All in all it was a very nice ride.

Back at the house Lu and Sis got a little bit of patience pole time while MIL and I unloaded hay. Lu wasn’t very happy but Sis is slowly learning.

As for Max – well he’s still here at the moment. Right now I have two people who say they want him. The original people are being slow so I told them they had until Friday to have him vetted. After that I would be allowing the second person the opportunity to have him vetted. I guess I should feel lucky that he’s wanted in an economy like this.