Weather, Nice. Mostly cloudy, windy, and slightly warmer. Made it up to 60F.
Bugs, Bad.
So today I went down to the barn to play with Jessie. So instead of just catching her, I went up to her, and she moved her hindquarters away from me like I usually do to catch her, but instead I just kept moved to her until I got to her, then I rubbed her with the halter All over. I think she was pleasantly surprised at that, and even seemed to really enjoy the halter rubbing her favorite spots. So then I haltered her, groomed her, then tacked her up English, but a different way. I put the shims on the bottom so maybe there wouldn't be those marks, then I played some bit of a circling game, then sideways, and squeeze, then got on from the stump. When I was playing, A. came out, and decided to play with Molly, so I waited and rode around some (Jessie was Really crabby today, and did Not want to go Anywhere I asked, little rears here and there to give her opinion to me about where I wanted to go all throughout the session, but not too much. So I waited until she was done grooming, and then we went out back. Jessie followed A., Molly, and Glory out back, and Glory spooked at something in the weeds outside of the fence, and when Jessie saw that she spooked, she did a little bit of a spook, and we went up the steep part of the pond dike, but when we got past the area, she just looked, and then sighed because there was nothing to worry about. So we got out back, and A. played with Molly, and I was trying to get Jessie to listen to me, but I had to settle for less, but it was still Ok. Molly was RB, and she'd freak out at a sudden movement as if April were asking her to get going at a gallop, and lost her once, but she stopped to graze when she found a patch nearby, and almost lost her again, but she hung on. So we worked on backups, sideways without a fence, (Going to the right was Really Great!) and going to the left was nearly impossible, but I got it a few times. Then we wandered around, she did Not want to move. She had a couple of freak moments when she flinched away, because Molly and Glory were RB, and were going fast, nothing major until A. let Molly loose, and she swung the CS and SS around Molly's neck as if to walk around with her, and Molly was off like something blew up. Then in those split . some seconds, Glory went, then Jessie spooked a few feet really fast, and I slid off. :-[ As Molly and Glory were going, I thought, eh, Jessie wouldn't spook just because of that, but she did, and as I was sliding, I thought to myself Very Calmly, Oh, just let go, and I was really relaxed as I fell, and I fell on my hip/back? Pretty much the farthest my hip goes, Its a bit sore, but I've had worse, and I'll live. The only thing I was really mad about was me not having a good enough seat to sit that, and my breeches got really dirty. So really as soon as I slid about halfway off of Jessie, she stopped dead. Then when I got up, she was already grazing. So while I was talking to A. about what happened, she mentioned something about oats. And I thought, That's where all this energy is coming from! But why is Jessie so crabby and really lazy? So after that, I thought to myself, if she was going to be all spooky, I'd better get her back to LB. So I played with her some more, here and there, and over the log jump, and A. took movies of me and Jessie. Thank you A! So then I asked her if she could take a movie of Jessie and I going sideways. So after a bit of asking, she did, and am I ever glad that I did! It took awhile for her to listen to me, but when I thought I got a nice one going, Jessie's hindquarters were Way back there, and it wasn't a sideways I'd like to have anyone see! So anyway, after that, and some more riding around, I took Jessie's halter off, and we went brideless for awhile. I was trying to get her out back, but she wouldn't give in, even with re-enforcing CS. So then we were rounding the front farthest corner, she took off at a surprise trot out back! :-D So we walked and trotted out back! :-D Then we rode around some more, then we went down to the barn trotting some, then I got off, and wanted to see how the marks turned out after I changed where I put things. Well, there wasn't pinch marks, but there were BUMPS?! O_O I Really don't know what to do. So I massaged her and her bumps, and they went away with a bit of time, but still, I've No idea what is happening, or what I should do. If any of you out there who read this, (I hope) and have gone through something like this, Please let me know your opinions, and what you've done, because I'm on my last leg here. And I know that she isn't allergic to the fabric that I use either. So then I gave her a treat, then went out back, chased Molly and Glory back down, and only Molly started running, Glory rasied her head, and pricked her ears at me, so I went over to her, and I rubbed her, and I swung my CS, and SS up around her, and she saw Molly going down, so she went down at a trot, then cantered. So then I put the fence back up to separate them from going out back until the grass grows again, and after all the galloping around, it really tore it up some. Too much oats I think. So by the time I was done putting that up, Glory and Molly came over to me to see what I was doing, and Glory was sniffing me because I smelled like apples, and I had one for her and Molly, so they Really liked that, and Jessie was right behind them, so when I was walking back down, I rubbed Jessie a bit, and when I left, she gave me her usual pricked ears, then I went back down to the barn, put everything back, then went in.
Later on I came back out, did chores, said goodnight, then went in.
Overall it was a Fairly Nice day. :-D
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