Filming an Audition – Day 3

April 11, 2021Posted inFancy, Flying Change
Today was determining where I can place my phone (camera) in the arena and see everything Fancy and I do. Thank you, Susan B., for helping. I found the exact place where the arena should end if I want to get Fancy’s body in the video at all times. Hmmm. This makes the arena short (as in not long enough). We practice flat foot walking, fox trotting, cantering, leg yielding at a (flat foot) walk and foxtrot in both directions, and weaving thru three cones that I made diagonal in…

Filming an Audition: Days 1 and 2

April 10, 2021Posted inFancy, Flying Change
Parelli Levels now require an audition with mandatory tasks. The audition is to be filmed, no clips glued together by iMovie. Damn. I just joined a Parelli Level 4 audition Zoom group led by a very nice and knowledgable Parelli instructor, Todd Owens. We had our first Zoom call a couple days ago. Now understand that I've passed all the original Levels test years ago. They were tasks then. You film each task and submit it. I was thrilled when the Parelli people made the Level 4. It's much the…

Fancy is a Beast-Goddess

April 5, 2021Posted inFancy, Flying Change
Fancy has try! She ties to do what I’m asking and I try to let her know I appreciate it. My favorite gait is canter, my 2nd favorite gait is canter faster, maybe she gallops. I can’t tell (feel) the difference. We practiced on a lot of flat foot walk. I was worried in our ground work warm up. She trotted to the left but paced to the right. I couldn’t get her out of the pace, Note: The evil pace always lurks. Sometimes, it is a lateral gait with…

Partnership

March 31, 2021Posted inFancy
Erin rode Fancy today and she did great. She is the old time definition of a saddle horse, advanced. My aim was to be a loving partner today. My goal is to spend undemanding time with her. I ask her for nothing. I am not requesting nor demanding any action from her. I drove into the stable driveway just as Erin was putting Fancy back in her small pasture. Erin told me Fancy whinnied when she saw my car. She knows my car and whinnied. The whinny is huge signature…

Screaming and Pounding

March 31, 2021Posted inFancy
When I went to the arena to visit, ride and play with Fancy yesterday, we heard a strange noise from outside. I thought it might be a weird dog howling. We became scared of that end of the arena. It wasn't howling; it was her horse pasture mate! Her pasture mate went crazy today when Fancy and I were in arena. The pasture mate screamed a true horse scream-whinny, upsetting Fancy. When I moved the jump holders and a pole into the arena, I let Fancy loose, and she ran…

“This Made My Day”

March 29, 2021Posted inFancy, Flying Change
Something awesome amazing happened at the group lesson today. It made Erin’s day. Lesson started. Flat foot walk for a while and next a few rounds of fox trot. I whine about the fox trot because someone has been training my horse and this fox trot is wonderful! I’m in Heaven! I don’t need a bra! Who has been training my horse! Note: Fancy has been in full time and now part time training for several years with Erin Patterson, a Super Hero. Fancy has had nearly two weeks vacation…