Weather, Chilly, but not as cold. Mostly cloudy.
So today I looked out the window, and there was Molly and Glory laying down. So knowing me, I hurried out with the camera, and took pictures of all of them. Jessie just stood there, Molly got up, and I got a funny picture of that, and Glory didn't move at all but her head, so I went over to her and rubbed her a bit, then I took pictures of Jessie as well, went over to rub her, and she laid her ears back a bit as if to say, "Leave me alone! I'm trying to sleep!" So anyway I rubbed her, then went in. A minute or two later, Jessie was laying down! :-D So I went back out, and she gave me pretty much the same face, but just moved her head around some, As if to say "You were already out here doing something with that boxy looking thing!" So after I took some more pictures, I rubbed her a bit more, then went in. Later on I went down to the barn, went out back to catch Jessie, and she played a game with me, but she finally gave in, and came to me, but with her ears back. I should've done something else, but I haltered her, and played with her for a bit. Some half circles, sideways, yo-yos, and on the way down to the barn driving from zone 5. So then I groomed her, tacked her up English, got on from the stump, and off we went. We went everywhere. First we just wandered out back, and I go her listening to me, and we went away from the rest of the herd, and I tried doing some circles at a trot, but she always went to a walk, tried going towards the herd, and acted really crabby when I asked to go the rest of the circle. So after that we did some waves at the trot, which was really fun to me, but I highly doubt it was fun to her. And pretty much Every Single gait you could get out of a walk and trot, she did! It was really quite interesting! To me when I was riding it felt like, her fast trot, Fast pacy trot, a gaited? fast walk, extended walk and trot, and I tried many ways on to post, or just do a two point. It was really interesting, and all through the session. So then we wandered around some more, and I asked her to go sideways without a fence just to see what would happen, and she did! Not very good, and I used my CS some, but it was a sideways of some sort! :-D And Both ways too! :-D It was harder for her to go to the right for some reason, I don't know what it was. It could've been many things. My first thought was the saddle, and the blankets because whenever I untack, there has been pinch? marks! :-( I'm guessing whenever I tighten the girth the blankets scrunch up, or the saddle flaps go tightly with the other part of the saddle to pinch her! :-( My poor Jessie! But it really didn't seem to bother her. So then we wandered over to the fence, and tried sideways along the fence. MUCH better, and I didn't really have to use my CS. :-D So then after some more walking and trotting, up the pond dike 6? times, we'd go down the not steep way. So then we wandered out back some more, and we went back down to the barn where I took off her halter, (Still mounted) and we went bridleless for a while. Just wandering around, even up the pond dike. She has a happier expression when we're bridleless, too. So we walked and trotted around bridleless for awhile, re-enforcing with the CS when she wasn't listening to my body language, and then after a while of that we went back down to the barn, where I put the halter back on, (Still mounted) and since she was into the fast trot, I thought if she wanted to trot that fast, she could canter! So I asked her, and she just only trotted faster, then we got to Glory who was by the log jump, and we stopped there, and visited with her for a minute, then we went into the front part of the back pasture, and I asked her to canter again, and we were trotting faster and faster almost to the point where she would have cantered, but I felt her, actually FELT her feel mad, and ticked off, and she was scrunching up, and she Bucked! I didn't do an emergrancy dismount, for one, her emotions went through so fast, and I just broke them down here, and I thought she might've gone into the canter. It wasn't really hard to sit, and since she wasn't too light today I switched from my CS to just the SS to use for a phase 4, that might have been too much to use? But she was really not going anywhere using lighter phases. And again I thought of the saddle issue. So after some more walking and trotting around, me using the two point on sitting her trot, and we went up the pond dike again, and I let her go down it since she knew it was the shorter way to the barn, and whenever we went the long way, she'd try to duck towards the barn, and go her way. So we went down the steep pond dike, went up again, (We trotted up some times) and she wanted to go down again, so since I wanted to try it again to maybe get used to steep hills, we were going down, and I felt her back leg itch? something, and her tail swish, and she bucked again! On the steep pond dike! It couldn't have been a real good buck since its so steep, but I was basically standing upwards in the stirrups on that one, but again, I think it might have been easier to sit than the other one! So I was really wondering what could be bothering her, so after we rode down to the barn, I got off, untacked, and those marks were there again. :-( I really don't know what to do at this point. Go western all the time? But anyway, I got the 22' line, and we went out back where we played driving from zone 5 all the way back, some cutting style play, and then I tried getting her to canter at the circling game. It took awhile, but I got her to canter around Twice Both Ways! :-D So then we wandered around out back for some time, me trying to get her to wander out all the way on the 22' line, but she only used about 12ft of it. So then we looked for apples, and I used my CS to knock down some for us, and I'd give Jessie one, rub one off for myself, and by the time I get my first bite, Jessie is done, and was looking at me in wonderment that I could get an apple! :-D So then I'd bite into it again, and she'd get interested, and a little bit greedy, putting her head up to where my apple was, and sniffing. So I'd give her my share, and I'd get another one for myself, same thing again. It was really cute! And fun! So then after I got some more apples for the others we went over to the coop jump, and I set it up to the highest I could get, and I sent her to it, hoping she'd go into the canter, but I wasn't picky, and she did slow down a little, then jumped it clear! :-D So then I tried again from the other way, and she cantered to it, but trotted the last 20? ft, and she did her stop, then jumped it. So then I tried again both ways, and she only knocked it down once! :-D So then I left it at that, and we wandered around some more, and then I chased Molly and Glory down to the barn so I could put the fence up in-between the front and back pastures to let the back pasture grow again, and Glory swung her hindquarters around, and faced me! :-D She thought that I was playing her her! :-D It was cute! So then I drove them down, then Jessie followed me down to the barn where I gave Glory an apple since we went by her, and I did the same thing I did with Jessie, I took a bite into it, and Glory was really wondering what I was doing, but then smelled it, and I gave it to her. By the Jessie knew what I was doing, and I walked away, and she wasn't following my feel on the rope, so I looked back, and Jessie was still by Glory trying to get a little piece hoping she'd share, but she came to me, and after I took bite or two, she got another one, so I put everything back, let her loose, gave her a treat, then went to go see if Molly would come and get her apple. But Jessie and Glory were following me in hopes on getting another apple. And I don't blame them! Those apples are good! :-D So I tossed the apple into the air, and catching it, and Molly would look over at me, so I rubbed Jessie, and ran off towards Molly, and Jessie and Glory just stayed down there, so I went up to Molly biting into the apple to make it sound really crunchy, and she didn't really seem to care much, but was obviously watching. But I think she took it as a smooch to get her to go down to the barn, and she trotted down where I went over to her, and as soon as she saw it, she took it, and ate it fast. :-D She really liked that one! :-D So then I did chores, said goodnight, then went in.
Overall it was a very Odd and Interesting day!
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