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Jul. 16th, 2009 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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.