Finally a break in the heat!!

I loved it! It was nice to go outside and not sweat just standing there. The horses were actually out and about in the pasture grazing rather than looking utterly miserable!
Nate, my son, gave me a ride up to the pond where the horses were at so I could catch them. Got them brought up and noticed Satin's fly mask rubbed her jaw raw abit underneath so off it came on went some SWAT ointment.  I check her daily but I am guessing with the cooler weather maybe she was rubbing in on something abit to cause it. I left it off her when we got done riding.

I got the horses ready to go (brushed most of the dried mud off of old Jake), Nate came out and we went for a nice ride down the road by our place.  It sure was nice but Satin is so tender footed I am going to have to get her some boots to wear I think, it didn't help that this last time they put down some really big coarse rock on the road.

There was a bit of perspiration on us and the horse when we got back but nothing to bad :)
We got back to the pasture and were greeted by Levi and Angel at the gate, lol, so I thought what the heck, I will she what Angel will do.  I put Satin's bridle on her which was too big and would not go small enough for her dainty little head lol.  There was a lead rope hanging on the fence so I just made a make shift halter with that which incidentally only left me with about a foot and half long "single rein" ROFL.
So I bellied up on her.. not hard with her at all since she is a shorty compared to my horses LOL, and she didn't move a muscle. So I moved around up there, rubbed and patted her all over. Flexed her head around both ways and she did good! So I squeezed with my legs, she just stood there. So I nudge with my legs.. still nothing, so I kick and she turns around and looks at me like "what?".

So I try a different approach and lean back and pull back on the make shift halter and she backs .. YES we have movement (calm down it was only a step)  ;)  So I ask for another and yep she took another step back.

So I again ask for forward movement.....and nothing but a look like "what are you doing?" I then try something different just to get the feet moving and I start swaying back and forth on her back while squeezing with my legs and we got a few steps! I felt it was a good place to stop since I didn't even have any real equipment on her in case of a blow up lol.  I never said I was bright.. only somewhat reckless hehehe ;)