cold cold cold ponies cold
Jan. 26th, 2009 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_crowhorse: check
exercise: minimal
fabric: check
I sense a theme.
I did ride. The red mare was a little high from a week off, but walking and trotting solidly and with interest. We even cantered a little. Cantering is bugging me because she pins her ears back and makes horrible faces and it feels unsteady and unhappy in ways I can't quite analyze because I am working on being in the center of her and not falling off and not yanking on her and bendbendbend. There were standards with poles on the ground, so we invented tiny courses, stepping over the poles and bending and turning and finding the next fence. She cares about it, I think, I also think she worries a little. I don't think she's had much schooling over fences. We could maybe try that.
After tons of walk and steady trotting and everything we headed out to the outdoor ring to cool out. She walked along with her head waay down, pushing her nose along in the snow and (I think) eating it, or licking at it. The only other footprints in the ring were ours from a week and a half ago - these people simply don't go outside in winter - I don't know how they can stand it. Part way around the second time, she just folded up under me and rolled. I was laughing so hard at her I couldn't grump - she's been wearing a blanket since she's been at the boarding stable, and I think it itches. She is starting to shed out under it, and she was unusually happy about being scratched during grooming. Rolling with a blanket on must be terribly unsatisfying.
I think she might have slipped on the ice and banged herself up some. She was certainly tiptoeing across the plate ice in the driveway today, and looking carefully at the footing. Interesting watching horses think.
exercise: minimal
fabric: check
I sense a theme.
I did ride. The red mare was a little high from a week off, but walking and trotting solidly and with interest. We even cantered a little. Cantering is bugging me because she pins her ears back and makes horrible faces and it feels unsteady and unhappy in ways I can't quite analyze because I am working on being in the center of her and not falling off and not yanking on her and bendbendbend. There were standards with poles on the ground, so we invented tiny courses, stepping over the poles and bending and turning and finding the next fence. She cares about it, I think, I also think she worries a little. I don't think she's had much schooling over fences. We could maybe try that.
After tons of walk and steady trotting and everything we headed out to the outdoor ring to cool out. She walked along with her head waay down, pushing her nose along in the snow and (I think) eating it, or licking at it. The only other footprints in the ring were ours from a week and a half ago - these people simply don't go outside in winter - I don't know how they can stand it. Part way around the second time, she just folded up under me and rolled. I was laughing so hard at her I couldn't grump - she's been wearing a blanket since she's been at the boarding stable, and I think it itches. She is starting to shed out under it, and she was unusually happy about being scratched during grooming. Rolling with a blanket on must be terribly unsatisfying.
I think she might have slipped on the ice and banged herself up some. She was certainly tiptoeing across the plate ice in the driveway today, and looking carefully at the footing. Interesting watching horses think.