a grand day out

We were at Circus Smirkus pretty much all day yesterday. We ushered and took tickets for the afternoon show, which was happy and made me laugh, and then Al came up and we ushered and took tickets for the evening show which was sold out and had a long line of people that mostly made it in. While the afternoon show as great, the evening show really rocked. I think having a bigger (louder) audience makes a lot of difference to how the show proceeds. Brattleboro is a very familiar stop, and a lot of the troupers take lessons with NECCA, so I think there is a lot of local enthusiasm when the circus comes to town.

There is so much to love about this show; the energy and enthusiasm the kids bring to the performance, the shouts and shrieks of the audience, the excellent live music. Plus the quality of the performers improves with each year.

I think this is one of their best years ever.

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Penny still has go.

Some switch has flipped? some perpetual urging has paid off? Maybe I'm doing something right? (that can't be true, must be something else)

So now we are focusing on chanelling that go into nice transitions. I got a couple of veryvery nice walk-canter  movements, but getting back to walk is not there (yet).

She is still moderately unflappable, which is nice. Although there was something scary at one end of the ring, prompting various evasive manoeuvres, she was persuadable, and then when her noseband snapped and was flying around she didn't care at all and let me unbuckle and remove it while remaining mounted. (standing still,

Another lesson for Bob. He loves Kaboose, it is not wrong to push him to ride her better? Quieter, calmer, less elbow, more riding from the center of his back. He is getting better, quicker than he thinks. I'll tell him that tomorrow.

I saw a fox on the way up the hill. Bob and Leonor have the Best Wildlife Evar. I saw the mooses when I was out with Bob this spring, and there is a hawk that lives further along the power lines.