Barn Pixie

exercise: yoga/pilates - will I ever be able to do the roll-over right? I keep thinking I have strength but I none in those exact muscles
horses: lesson on the huuuge horse
fabric: yesterday's is dry, and today's is just silly

Woke up with one arm numb. (ETA I am fine! I've been checked by a physician, we both think the blood people crunched some crucial nerve when I last donated, but it makes for some interesting times. I can't grip for too long, and it is a really strong reminder to loosen up.) and the day just got harder from there.

It was an exhausting lesson on the huge horse. It took a while to get organized, and the stud colt kept coming to visit and distracting him. Everyone was gentlemanly but distracted. It also took a while to get softer, and we never did get a 10m turn to the left - partly because things kept getting in our way (poles, parts, mud) and partly because I couldn't rebend him quick enough to get there.

I got off feeling like I'd been beaten.

I still feel tired, and I am wondering what it is about riding that makes me so tired. I get off the girls and my knees give out. What gives?

an odd day.

no yoga, instructor sick, instead some kind of weight thing with a giant ball. I want to steal one of the exercise balls for the ponies - I think they'd love booting it about the pasture. After 45 minutes of antagonism I realized I was doing OK and not hating it so much as disoriented and disappointed to miss yoga. But OK, I did good, and then I went for a lesson.

I rode the tall giant horse, we joke about him being the size of a NY city block, with skyscrapers. We did great. I have to keep for getting tight in my left arm, and we experimented with a host of things images to use to accomplish that.

At the end of my class a friend from (counts) 3 barns ago showed up with her husband to take a driving lesson with Lani and Alex the magical mind-reading Morgan. They have two Connemara/warm-blood crosses, both about 15 hands, both buckskin, one from NH and one from VA. Both gorgeous. It was sweet to catch up.

I am done now, even though I have three ideas for fabric things, I have to get some sleep,a nd I'll do more tomorrow. Plus ride the red horse again, if she's still there. Like I said, it is the not knowing.

exercise: yoga/pilates class
horse: AWESOME lesson, in snowstorm
fabric: not yet

gym: check (pilates and yoga)
ride: check - lesson today
fabric thing: check

Lesson on the patient Morgan mare over icy terrain which we both hated. It took a lot of effort and a lot of hands forward and finally even a pair of spurs to get us into the kind of frame that was easy in September. Winter has a lot to answer for. And yet, being able to having to focus so hard on one particular thing makes it better and more ingrained, so that when the easier weather comes, there is one more layer of better reflexes installed in me.

Ice storm predicted for tonight late, the edge of the front was hovering over us all day.