Yeehaw!

I love jumping, but haven't really jumped at all since Celia got cripppled, of course sage jumping, but that doesn't count. Last Saturday I got the brilliant idea that we could make our own jumping course.
So true to our roots Mary and I went all out and what we got was a somewhat redneck jumping course-complete with tires and barrels, which we haven't used[hence the lack of pictures]
Unforetunatley the pictures we got of our more basic jumps didn't turn out so great because of the camera quality.
Ted likes to jump about a mile before he should
But by the end of this session he was getting better
Up and ovver
She looks frightened
Mary has the tendency to ride close to her horse and pull back when she jumps
Teke is an excellent jumper, but gets carried away and I forgot to lift myself
Gyps got led over a few
I totally look the part in skinny jeans and vans, of course=]
Rita and I tried to sync, it didn't work
Mary prefers Ted but she'll ride Teke
Ha, yep thats been my horse involvement for the last week, an amazing time jumping!

Stress relief

I was feeling terribly down today after getting home from school[drama, drama, drama] so instead of working with Gypsy like I planned, I decided that I'd take Stormy and go on a ride to cry it out to her. Because as everyone knows horses are the best medicine for a broken and battered heart.

All little Storm wanted to do those was crowhop-my fault entirely. She has way to much energy and has to be ridden daily or have a job when shes ridden so she doesn't get bored. I wasn't in the mood to fight with her so I decided we'd work on some more english-type riding. I took her out to the lot next to my Aunt Loa's where we used to race our horses when we were kids, because the corrals are still really muddy, and hooked her on the lunge line.

We worked on basic stuff like just lunging, because we haven't done it in awhile and she'd rather just sit in the circle with me. I don't blame her but "thats not acceptable, blahblahblah..." We also worked on direct reining-which she hated epically. And whip training, I think that caused more confusion then enlightenment though. I don't blame her, I have problems getting it to sometimes. Lastly we did her least favorite thing ever, working with her hind legs- she was pretty good though, I got to hand it to her. She didn't kick or anything, just kinda scooted away. Eventually though she did hold still and let me lift them, so we ended on that good note.

It did get my mind off my issues and her my mind off crowhopping so I'd say success!

Pictures coming soon!
Sincerely,
This horse whisperer