Another uneventful day at the barn. Another milestone crossed. Today was my first ride without any time on the lunge line first. I did walk her around the farm before hopping on and she was very good, so I just hopped up. We spent a little time in the arena doing walk serpentines and turning and then a bit of trot work with a couple of 20 meter circles. She did great, very attentive and responsive. She's still curling into her chest at times -- not really behind the bit as I'm not taking any contact, but dropping her head into her chest and grinding on the bit. Clearly this is tension, and I'm just staying quiet and asking her forward while bumping her head up. She's so light and soft that I really need to focus on keeping her coming from behind and getting her neck longer.
We also walked out into the paddock and around the arena. She was great and we ended with that. I'm really pleased to be able to drop the lunging and get her off the circle.
As I was tacking up it was feeding time so I put her back in her stall with her saddle and boots on to eat. Since I'm only riding her for about 15 minutes and mostly at a walk I see no reason to delay her dinner and pick a fight over that. Unfortunately this put me behind an already tight schedule and made me miss Matthew McConaughey stalking part 2. Another case of poor priorities, I sense a pattern.
So how did Matthew get the .25 you ask? Well I did catch a glimpse of him sitting on the picnic table outside his camper when I just "happened" to be in the vicinity this morning. That is one pretty man. I'm going to get kicked out of the girls' club if I keep missing opportunities to try and meet him.
Yes Honey, this means you have a total free pass to stalk Catherine Zeta Jones should she ever be staying in town. :-)
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