Ahhhhh, back to work! We kind of didn't want to work. I'm still a bit worn out from Kentucky and working. But, I was also anxious to get back to some fancy prancing!
Incidentally, today was also the Ashland jumper show day. And Dan met his mini me! My friend has Moose, a 13.3ish hand Appy pony. We took their photos together! Hee hee. Dan was sweet and nice to him too. :) Phew!
Anyways... we took a trek around the little lake to get warmed up. Then we headed to the arena. We had a good ride. It wasn't stellar, but it wasn't awful. We had some pretty good moments. Our canter half pass felt a bit more like a canter on a diagonal line today but at least he mostly held it. We did some canter with haunches in. And we played with trot half pass. So a decent ride. Unfortunately, he puffed up his winter coat and it was pretty warm so he was fairly sweaty. He worked well so we finished after about 40 minutes and went for a hack. Kelli was debating joining us so apparently she was about to pull in so we did a quick hack to the lake to see if Dan wanted a sip and then we went back to the XC field to meet her. While we waited we did a little bit of canter and trot in the field. Ha! Much harder to get the collected work in there. He was forward and go-ey! Which.. yay!
So then we met Kelli and had a nice long walk. We ended up in the hay field and the grass was so high! I did a little trit trot for a few circles to get Danny to pick up his hocks and use them. Kelli was laughing at us... as he had hay hanging from his mouth... and was being all silly. Then we laughed at the "crop circles" we had made. It was a good ride! Then we had to head home so I could spend the rest of the day on the tractor!
No comments:
Post a Comment