In Which We Go Public

...sort of.

You can see our YouTube channel here! It's nothing professional, for sure--just some basic stuff for the folks that are working with my project babies when I'm not there. So constructive feedback is welcome, but no snarky comments por favor! Haha, not that I expect that from any of you but y'know... :)

Last week was a zoo but we rode anyway! My new challenge is getting River comfortable in our new schooling area. He is decidedly nervous of the big-open-area-without-rails and is skittery and tense and gnaws and chomps on the bit like nobody's business. To the point where he's literally flinging drool all over. It's crazy.

This slobber is greatly reduced from when we were actually riding...!

It'd be lovely if it was from a really relaxed jaw instead of a nervous one!

So I scrapped my plans of working on walk/halt/back transitions and now we're just walking around up there, round and round and round, till he relaxes. No biggie. I'm flexible--we don't have anything we have to be ready for!

I am so sad Daylight Savings Time is ending this week!

Shaggy pony and late-evening sunbeams

But we are enjoying the time we've got. Today was my evening to feed, so after giving everyone their grain at the barn, I went down to get River and check on the pasture horses. Saw him first, so gave him his carrot and then went off to make sure nobody else was broken or bleeding.

Turned around and Mr. Food-Pony was marching off to the gate on his own! He did stop halfway and deign to give me his most disgusted look...I call it the Moose Look and it's pretty much this:

From earlier in the year...

Saying plain as could be, "Hurry UP, lady, why u so SLOW?!"

He walked all the way up to the gate then without any halter or anything. Ha. Got his yums and then we rode a little bit--walking around in the schooling area--and I did his feet. It was a good evening.