Parelli

I have written lately about Cisco and I because I've been pondering the meaning of life with a horse.  That sounds cool doesn't it?  Believe it or not, the Level 4 Parelli journey with Cisco is not the same as the Level 3 journey with Velvet.  All I really remembered was the intense focus on flying lead changes.  Yes, I still have that fierce focus, but things are very different. Things are very different as I don't have job.  I have few time constraints.  When I play with Cisco it…

Cisco spent the night in his new stall. He screamed at me this morning when I came into the barn aisle. This living in a stall thing is going to be really good for my life. I have to get up in the morning as I must clean his stall. Cisco gets out of his stall and spends some time in the arena while I pick up the little brown "apples" littering his stall. When done, Cisco and I played some games in the arena. I get to take my…

Cisco gets bestest treatment after our riding session. He followed my feel when trotting outside around a small round pen. I was bouncing at the hard trot and managed to get my heel on him so he could know I wanted him to follow the rail instead of spurt to the other end of the arena. This is such a difficult concept for Cisco and tough physically for me. We are no where near show-off stage. We are more like horrorific stage. In between successes, we walked around the arena…

Before I saddled up Cisco, an amazing event occurred. A butterfly happened along, or was meant to be a sign. My thought is that the butterfly is meant to show how light I must be with Cisco. Lightness with Cisco is the key to a successful journey. Cisco and I did our ground work, online and at liberty.  I'm pretty certain that we made little to no progress.  These things happen in the horse world with us learned amateurs! I then rode Cisco and we practiced side passing, leg yields,…