Country Frank’s Lucky Star

Lucky and I went on a trail ride today at James A Reed.  Chas and Louie went too.  Lucky needed this trail ride.  He needed to get out and see the scenery! It's sunflower time at James A Reed park!  It's also corn time there too.  The ears are almost finished...not yet edible, but coming along. We had a great time.  Lucky is a great trail horse.  He might look at strange things, but keeps right on trucking.  He's got one spook in him and I know exactly where it's…

I might have reported that Lucky Star and I had a giant argument last Friday.  We didn't get it resolved on Saturday.  I thought it was resolved on Tuesday, but the labor strike was still ongoing as of tonight. Our arguments involve too much work expectations. So tonight, I was able to play with Lucky in a round pen..at liberty.  He had his saddle on as I expected to ride.  I asked him to move around the round pen and he told me how he felt about that.  He does…

Never fear, Lucky Star still argues.  He did take a rein in his mouth just last week.  The young argumentative boy has turned into a more mature less argumentative boy.  Lucky and I spend a lot of time going slow, steering with the hindquarter and riding without me touching the reins.  After we get all this worked out, we might do a few drop to trot canter lead changes in a figure eight type pattern  He still breaks into a non rhythmic lateral bumpy gait.  We can't keep the three…

Here's what went viral.  A beautiful country scene with quite a few trees.  "CRACK!"  The crack of a bull whip.  Thundering hooves.  Seems like several minutes of thundering horse hooves.  We anticipate seeing the horse come thru the tree line.  Finally, we see the horse galloping through the tree line headed our way.  The horse gallops to a horse trailer and hops in!  "Wow," we all said as we shared it with friends.  This was Australia and the bull whip cracker was a Pat Parelli student. I replied to all…

Nearly Summer in Kansas City land.  Lucky Star and I went at it this morning about 11:00 till after 12. We cantered. We zoomed around. We played pair class with Karin. Something sensational happened with our pair exercise with another gelding.  Lucky Star did not pin his ears and threaten to eat Karin's gelding.  We rode close together without a Lucky pinned ear swishy tail non verbal war.  I might survive being in a horse show rail class! I was starting to feel like a heat stroke victim, so we…