Let me see if I've got this right...
Wordless Wednesday <-- blew that one already didn't I? Somebody has a theme - who/where is that?
Flashback Friday,
am I missing any? Sort new to the blog world need to get this figured out.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
What a Great Weekend!
Friday night date with the DaddyMan, frustrating to get to, running late, etc. Sorta like that rascal flats song.... Anyway, we saw Noises Off!! the HS production by LHS drama. My students did great and its good to see them in something other than a Math class. Picked up some $$ on the way home for the boys who had a poop-a-plooza planned for Sat AM. They needed movie money, and at our house, the cash comes out of the horses rear at a rate of $4 a tractor bucket full. Its a 4-5 muck bucket load of poop, and its usually not to wet and heavy.
Sat AM rolls around and DM drives, and I get to occupy the stallion Rodeo while they clean his pen. Brushed, lunged, re-did his tail-braid, took a short trail ride, and came home to viola beautiful clean horse pen. I helped DM level the mats in the inside and we even gave the big guy some shavings to sleep in. Being 10:30 by now, we headed up to the house for lunch and a nap. Skipped lunch, had a BIG NAP and went back to check on the horses and work another one. Rodeo greated us with the biggest horsey grin, he was covered in shavings from head to freshly rebraided tail. That and his saddle sweat marks made him look like a real true life working horse, not some lonely-old-used-to-be show horse his mom has left home and moved on from. He was a happy boy, only thing makes him happier is, well, you can guess..
Sat PM Got Timme (Rodeo's 8yr old gelding son-my everyhorse) out and put the harness on him, we towed the tire around for a while, then switched to him following the training cart. That went so well, we put him in the shafts and walked all over the ranch practicing moving sideways and not turning our bodies, so the shaft didn't bump our hinders. He was a little goosy aobut that, but I wasn't using blinders but he only squirted out from the shafts a couple of times and went right back to it. Like "ok I can get out if I need to, so this can't be that bad." YO, was calling himself "rickshaw boy" because he was driving the cart around and getting Timme used to the sounds and sights and all. We told Timme he could be a rickshaw boy, too! Timme being the wonderfully willing gullible gentle soul that he is said/thought, "That kid can do it, I bet I can too." and proceed to do it, just fine. We probably won't actually tie him into the cart for 2-3 more lessons, as we still need work on the goosy parts and need to introduce the tug of the britching and all that stuff. (I can see YO skiing slowly hanging onto hay string tied to the britchin as I backTimme away from him).
Sunday: leisure start to the day, and then worked 3 sets of horses for/with Kelly. We did Bill, the mare Kit <-- who is much improved from the previous post) and Kelly's mare Sage. Sage went without a pony line for the first time sunday and was cool about the whole deal...
gotta go pick up Oldest Son... got his phone taken at school and I need to retrieve it, so I can lock it away for a while.... :(
hopefully more sooner than later.. happy trails, enjoy the spring flowers even if it is mostly fiddle neck!
Sat AM rolls around and DM drives, and I get to occupy the stallion Rodeo while they clean his pen. Brushed, lunged, re-did his tail-braid, took a short trail ride, and came home to viola beautiful clean horse pen. I helped DM level the mats in the inside and we even gave the big guy some shavings to sleep in. Being 10:30 by now, we headed up to the house for lunch and a nap. Skipped lunch, had a BIG NAP and went back to check on the horses and work another one. Rodeo greated us with the biggest horsey grin, he was covered in shavings from head to freshly rebraided tail. That and his saddle sweat marks made him look like a real true life working horse, not some lonely-old-used-to-be show horse his mom has left home and moved on from. He was a happy boy, only thing makes him happier is, well, you can guess..
Sat PM Got Timme (Rodeo's 8yr old gelding son-my everyhorse) out and put the harness on him, we towed the tire around for a while, then switched to him following the training cart. That went so well, we put him in the shafts and walked all over the ranch practicing moving sideways and not turning our bodies, so the shaft didn't bump our hinders. He was a little goosy aobut that, but I wasn't using blinders but he only squirted out from the shafts a couple of times and went right back to it. Like "ok I can get out if I need to, so this can't be that bad." YO, was calling himself "rickshaw boy" because he was driving the cart around and getting Timme used to the sounds and sights and all. We told Timme he could be a rickshaw boy, too! Timme being the wonderfully willing gullible gentle soul that he is said/thought, "That kid can do it, I bet I can too." and proceed to do it, just fine. We probably won't actually tie him into the cart for 2-3 more lessons, as we still need work on the goosy parts and need to introduce the tug of the britching and all that stuff. (I can see YO skiing slowly hanging onto hay string tied to the britchin as I backTimme away from him).
Sunday: leisure start to the day, and then worked 3 sets of horses for/with Kelly. We did Bill, the mare Kit <-- who is much improved from the previous post) and Kelly's mare Sage. Sage went without a pony line for the first time sunday and was cool about the whole deal...
gotta go pick up Oldest Son... got his phone taken at school and I need to retrieve it, so I can lock it away for a while.... :(
hopefully more sooner than later.. happy trails, enjoy the spring flowers even if it is mostly fiddle neck!
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