Powder’s Progress – Development Pending

October 15, 2010Posted inPowder
Sunday, Powder will be headed to "For the Horse" Ranch to enjoy 30 days of training with Jennifer Vaught.  Jenny was a Parelli 3 Star instructor for 15 years.  Pat found Jenny near the beginning of the development of the Parelli people training system and asked her to be an instructor. She has influenced untold numbers of people in the midwest.  She has influenced my life a great deal! Jenny has taken two Horse Development courses with Pat Parelli and Pat's mentor Ronnie Willus and was certified as a Young…

Powder’s Progress – Take a Giant Step

October 6, 2010Posted inPowder
Surprise!  I asked Jennifer Vaught if she might want to train Powder for 30 days and the answer is YES! We're talking mid October thru Mid November.  I've also just about talked Jenny into blogging about training Powder. Wouldn't that be something! I think everyone should send Jenny an email and tell her how excited you would be to read a blog about Jenny's thoughts during 30 days of training.  What does she hope to accomplish in the daily sessions? What happens during Powder's training.  When does the first ride happen?  How…

Powder’s Progress – Two Years Old Today!

October 4, 2010Posted inPowder
  She was born two years ago.  Her birthday is today!  But hold on! She's going to be two again in 2011...for showing purposes!  Powder is two, she'll have two birthdays.   Isn't that two cool! Powder was born in October and the rule is...Oct. thru December babies are deemed to attain their age in the following year. In this past few weeks, I'm determined that Powder will have the best horse development ever.  I've been playing with her at home and taking her to Pine Dell. Taking Powder to Pine…

Powder’s Progress- Phases of Pressure

September 27, 2010Posted inPowder
Here's my terrible confession.  I am writing this blog just to publish some recent pictures of Powder. Don't worry, I have more from this great Sunday Fall afternoon.  You'll get to see all of them, eventually. Here's our self protrait. It's my blog.  I can do whatever I want!  See how my eyebrows match her hair.  If I want, I can have half my hair match Powder, but I would never admit that to anyone!  Let's just leave it at my eyebrows for now.  I love it when my horse…

Powder’s Progress- Liberty Game

September 26, 2010Posted inPowder
It's a game we love to play. We turn the horses loose in the arena and wait for them to want to come back to us. The rules for the horses are trot or canter, maintain the same direction and don't cut thru the middle.That last rule is important because that's where the humans stand.  Tony called her "sassy"!  Sassy she was indeedy.  In the above picture, her goal was to be the leading horse. She cut the corner to pass Spike and JR. Not only did Powder cut thru…

Powder’s Progress – Confidence!

June 11, 2009Posted inPowder
What an amazing clinic we had today. We had a lot of fun.  All the horses calmly handled all the things presented to them Powder took on every obstacle immediately when asked.  She was asked to pose for the auditors and decided to wear a hat. The original hat picture had the red eye and I tried to fix her eyes.  Her eyes right now are blue distilled by green. The Tower of Doom is in the background of one picture.  I led her right thru it with no hesitation…