Dee is officially beginning to be a grown-up! Today, she got on the trailer and let me walk around back to put the butt bar up. I know, I know, it doesn't sound like much, but she usually just gets back off the trailer as soon as I walk around back. I don't think she's being bad, I think she just figures "well, you USUALLY ask me to get off when you go round back...". It took me quite a few tries, but I finally convinced her that she didn't have to get off when I left her. Even better was that when we left Nancy's to go home, she marched onto the trailer and stood like a soldier while I put the back up. What a smart girl!
Our ride today was excellent, too. We had 20 minutes of no fighting and forward going. It was absolute bliss and I quit after 20ish minutes because she'd been great and she was absolutely DRIPPING with sweat. It was around 90 with enough humidity to make you think the world somehow ended up underwater, so I decided not to make her keep going when she'd been an angel. I know Nancy would have wanted me to trot over a bunch of cavaletti, but the mare was just SO good and SO sweaty... I couldn't do that to her.
No comments:
Post a Comment