Well my evening with Diesel was very slow paced, but very successful. He was a hot mess when I got there! Bonnie told me she watched him wander into the middle of the biggest mud puddle & roll in it over & over again. She wanted to video it for me, it was that messy!
So I groomed him out pretty well, tacked up & headed for the arena. I worked him on the lunge line [short & long] and he was seemingly half asleep! He remained 'asleep' for most of our ride, but this equates out to very nice & slow gaits. I was off the reins practically the entire time, he just bummed along nicely. It was refreshing!
Then we started working on some barrels, and VIOLA-- there's a spunky horse under me! He was ready to run, so we played with barrels for a while, he was listening really well so as it was nearing 9 o'clock I took his saddle off, climbed up & cooled him down bareback.
I'm getting much better at mounting bareback -- the first night I tried to just 'jump up' I looked like a beached whale! It was hiiiiiiilarious. And embarrassing. But i'm getting a bit better, Diesel sometimes doesn't know what to think of me & my limbs thrashing around on his back trying to get settled, but he's cool about it.
My legs were SOLID tonight, I posted almost the whole time without my stirrups and it was better than when I picked up my stirrups. I just love to feel progress :)
That's all for now, I'm calling it a night! Looking forward, we are doing our first show on Sunday, Oct 28. We are going to do the gaming portion, definitely barrels and pole bending, not sure what else we'll jump in on, but I'm sure you'll be able to read about it!
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