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Mar. 30th, 2012 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_crowgah.
my sinuses are coated with dust from horses who have rolled in the mud and dried, and ring dust because it is dry dry dry, and I feel like I have swallowed enough shed horse hair to hack up a hairball or stuff a sofa coushion, and I keep forgetting that my hands and gloves are coated with loose hair and go to try to pull hair off my tongue and more gets in.... I'll be pleased when shedding season is over.
Nuada early today; he's still stiff from shots and bug bites, so we mostly walked and then cantered a little. I need so much practice sitting still in the center of the canter. Nuada is such a good guy. I find myself wondering if I can do something, so I try it out on him, and it turns out he's done that before, and has pretty good skillz at, frex, counter canter, or what-have-you.
Kaboose and I had a lesson with Suzanne, where it was borne in on me exactly how much my hands move when they shouldn't. So a lot of the lesson was booting her off my right leg, and not letting my hands come back to me for ANYTHING. And leg yielding whenever we had other transitions to make. Which was remarkably effective, once I stopped moving my hands.
I say again: gah.
And now I mount the stairs of doom to make another circle, and contemplate what avenue I can explore for April that will support 30 of something. Because I am running out of March. However, I am also 1/4 of the way through the year. And I ahve packaged up to mail, or given away in person, more than 2/3 of the circles I've made so far.
Things I am wondering today:
my sinuses are coated with dust from horses who have rolled in the mud and dried, and ring dust because it is dry dry dry, and I feel like I have swallowed enough shed horse hair to hack up a hairball or stuff a sofa coushion, and I keep forgetting that my hands and gloves are coated with loose hair and go to try to pull hair off my tongue and more gets in.... I'll be pleased when shedding season is over.
Nuada early today; he's still stiff from shots and bug bites, so we mostly walked and then cantered a little. I need so much practice sitting still in the center of the canter. Nuada is such a good guy. I find myself wondering if I can do something, so I try it out on him, and it turns out he's done that before, and has pretty good skillz at, frex, counter canter, or what-have-you.
Kaboose and I had a lesson with Suzanne, where it was borne in on me exactly how much my hands move when they shouldn't. So a lot of the lesson was booting her off my right leg, and not letting my hands come back to me for ANYTHING. And leg yielding whenever we had other transitions to make. Which was remarkably effective, once I stopped moving my hands.
I say again: gah.
And now I mount the stairs of doom to make another circle, and contemplate what avenue I can explore for April that will support 30 of something. Because I am running out of March. However, I am also 1/4 of the way through the year. And I ahve packaged up to mail, or given away in person, more than 2/3 of the circles I've made so far.
Things I am wondering today:
- have I been sick? If I had Aerin's tiny cold, that could explain the general blahs this week
- am I currently hitting menopause but it is hidden from me by various drugs? my vocabulary is dribbling away like water through sand and it pisses me off because I LIKE having the right word for every occasion, and I was reduced to charades to ask for the blueberry scones at trader joe's because I couldn't think of the word scone.
- why is the first ten minutes of Kaboose so hard and ungainly? It feels dreadful, and wrong and frustrating, and makes me doubt my abilities every time I sit on her (yet it always comes back eventually)
- what can I do/make/choose for a theme for April? Can I keep on making landscapes but add color (that is what is speaking to me at the moment; that gorgeous haze of pink and red and green and yellow as the trees bloom and the tiny leaves come out)
- do I have to?
- why?
- you people need feeding AGAIN????