8-21-11 Ride

Snazzy title eh?

First I want to say my Saturday was crappy.. I didn't get my list done (I had my day planned out), I got burrs in my hair trying to get them out of my lot before I mowed :/ , and my phone stopped working and was in Des Moines with mom most of the evening driving her around since the break line on her car was leaking, but enough of that!

So I finally got to ride on Sunday. I go catch Levi, bring her up to brush and saddle her... she didn't want to stand for saddling...this is a first for her! So I send her out on the line to work for a bit and try again and my sweet Levi was back so I figure she was thrown off working in the middle of the day instead of evening LOL.

I had taken all my stuff down to my freshly mowed work area.. foam tarp, landscape poles, flags, chicken feed sack full of cans, etc earlier. I head down with the horse, laptop and digital camera.. well except I forgot the bridle.. duh!! So had to go get that.

Get down and set up laptop on a barrel and start web cam.. got some good video, except I was misjudging where the “edge” of the camera line was and got out of frame a lot. I took all that out when I shortened the videos for easier loading and for those with slower Internet. Then I switched over to using mom's digital camera and it did the best out of the two, I just wish I had a way to zoom, a helper sure would be nice.

Also at one point I accidentally hit her with the sacking out whip, which I think is also on video and made her jump some. I promise it was an accident ;)

 We did more trotting in circles, crossing the foam tarp etc.

We got some cantering in more this time.. we still aren't cantering circles but are getting better at the straight lines with the occasional big arc thrown in ..

This clip at the after the first canter she was acting weird stomping her right front but she must have just had a big horse fly on her that left when we stopped and she wanted to argue over backing rooting her nose a bit. She was also getting tired and bratty so we worked thru that and found a good point to quit so it wasn't her idea to stop the lesson.

Her ORS are getting much better too.

All in all we had a good lesson with some decent footage.. Levi will be going on her first trail ride this Saturday at Elk Rock in Knoxville. I think she will do really good. :)