Ahhh, I needed today. Yesterday was such an emotional day. Plus I was on my period so my hormones were raging! And today was still a hard day. I still cried this morning. But... Lyric had a good vet visit. I do love Dr. Barrow and her crew! I got home and had a quick salad for lunch and then changed into breeches and grabbed Dan and we headed to Ashland. I had to work on one horse tonight so I had a small window, but it was enough.
Unfortunately Kelli wanted to do arena work, which was understandable because Marvin hadn't been ridden much, it was super windy and cold, and she had the new loaner saddle to try out. We talked about plans, but decided to just show up and do our own thing and if we got to hack together a little bit great! Except... I was ready to go because I was bareback and she was still tacking up and talking. And then she sounded a little worried so I offered to come up to the arena with her to start and figured I could do some lateral work and a bit of trotting before I hit the trails. She almost told me no as she didn't want to ruin my ride but then as I was like "cool, see yah" and started to head out, she changed her mind. Ha ha. Okay.. no big deal. Dan and I can do that.
We got to the jump arena (the dressage arena's were closed) and I did my walk work. We did all the lateral things. He stuck his tongue out once when we did a half pass left at the walk. But only once. Of course his walk half-passes suck currently. At this point I had been on him for 20 minutes (although probably 10 of that was sitting around waiting) so we picked up the trot for a bit and did some leg yields and a tiny bit of the babiest of half-passes. He felt pretty good and actually seemed to be using his hind end and pushing and getting lofty today instead of his usual flat western jog type bareback trot. Yeah boy! Kelli said he looked good. We trotted over some poles and then... I was like "I hate to do this, but... do you care if I go hack now?". Because... it was almost 2 pm and I had to be finishing my ride at 2:30 to get back home in time to go work... and I could have done arena work at home. I spent the extra hour of drive time and gas so that we could hit the trails. I felt bad, but... She was cool with it and I told her if Marvin freaked out to just call me and I would come back. But apparently he didn't so yay!
Dan and I moseyed down to the water complex, snacking as we went. I did one walk circle and then two trot circles each way. Then we trotted a few logs and up the bank and then went down Raccoon loop. The bridge is almost done!! Yay! Then we went up the hill to the lake, skipped the lake and trotted from the lake head, across the dam and all the way through the field with the gallop track, and around the lake to the log, which we trotted over. I did post some of it because Dan's trot got big and bouncy! But he felt really good and lofty today! So then we walked up and down the hills in the woods. We came to the beaver dam and there was a little "creek" and I knew he was going to hop over it. But I didn't expect him to bascule over it! He popped me out of the "tack" a bit. Hee hee. Fun! We trotted a bit more alongside XC and then noticed as we hit the top that Kelli and Marvin had headed out in hand to come find us. We trotted towards them and jumped two or three logs. He mostly trotted them. Good pony. Then we meanded back to the trailers because it was time to go.
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