Blast from the past

Sat. night we headed up to Carson for the rodeo. It was a long 2 hour drive and we had to be there early to practice (the drill team was performing). Abby is getting better and better with each run. This is just what she needed & MIL is enjoying her more and more all of the time.

Black was a bit off when we arrived so I booted her all of the way around. When we hit the arena she was off and running so I’m not sure if adrenaline took over or what. We ran our run during the middle of the rodeo and all-in-all they had a good run.



We decided to stick around and watch a bit of the rodeo after the performance and to my surprise one of my old college professors was running. I knew she ran barrels but she was a little ways from home. She had a nice horse and a nice run but I don’t think she was in the money. Seeing her face brought back a lot of memories. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to talk to her as we wanted to try to leave so we didn’t get caught in the traffic. It was nearly midnight before we pulled in the drive to unload the horses so I’m glad we left when we did.

Sunday was kind of a lazy day for all. MIL loaded up Sis and Cat and headed home and DH and I started to lay out the fence for the drylot. Luckily the tractor was broken so we couldn’t actually work on the fence like planned.

I got Lucy out and worked her on the long line for a while to watch her movement. She seems to move better on the 22’ line vs. the 14’ line. I did a lot of long trotting with her in both directions until she was fairly warm and then took her out to the hot walker & tied her up (using it as a patience pole). Around and around she went. She kept it moving (who needs a motor).

Mom had fixed supper so we headed in. I looked out and notice the walker wasn’t moving anymore. Woo hoo! She’d finally decided to stand still! I looked out again about 5 minutes later. It was in the same spot so I started looking to see where she was and guess what? She wasn’t on the walker anymore! I walked down and found her in the barn happily munching hay. Little snot!

I grabbed a cross tie and took her back out to the walker and tied her up. I sat and watched her. When she gets mad, she reaches for the middle of the rope, bites and pulls down. This is exactly where the quick release snap on the chain was.

While she was throwing her fit Chase hopped on Abby. We’ve been working bareback in the round pen to get Chase’s balance. He did much better this time sitting Abby’s trot. She’s not very easy to sit. He says he wants to ride her every day this week. I guess we’ll see if he holds true to that.