Sue – How Do You Do at Seeing My Heart on My Hand

November 27, 2006Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
Monday, November 27, 2006Sue How Do You See the Heart on my Hand It was chilly and late. I stopped at "For the Horse" Ranch to play with Sue. We played our right brain/left brain games for a while and she is staying in her left brain more and more. Translation: I up my body language and ask her to do things faster. She gets scared (right brain). I slow my body language and she calms down (left brain). She's starting to understand that being scared isn't the end of…

Sue – How Do You Do Plateau?

November 5, 2006Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
Yep, we've plateau'd. Of course that's not a real word. Sue has spent her first week at the boarding stable, called "For the Horse" Ranch. A small amount of her fear came back and I spent two riding nights with her completely on the ground. I managed to ride her the third night. After a couple laps around the arena, we stopped and I breathed again. That fear is there waiting.... We had two clinics on Saturday. One was with Jenny Vaught in the am and the other one was…

Sue – How Do YOu Do with an Uncoordinated Clod of a Rider?

September 7, 2006Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
My personal life got in the way again of riding and time has passed. I also haven't reported on the great rides Sue and I've had in the Monday nite lessons...She knows the other horses now and is very relaxed. So, I've taken off work and riding during the day all this week (except, I got interupted again by my personal life). Anyway. There are three horses being rode in the arena. One of them is standing still. The other one is zipping around. I decide today is the new…

Sue – How do You Like Meeting Suzy and Riding with Velvet?

August 14, 2006Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
Suzy came up to visit. She has passed the old level 2 and is a RIDER! I gave her Velvet and we rode early in the hot morning. We rode in the arena and did some fun things. Then we rode outside. Sue and I were feeling mighty good. Suzy is good to ride with. I decided the time was right to take off on the mini trail ride towards Patty's house and trails. We crossed the gravel road and rode past the neighbor's horse pasture. All good and quiet.…

Sue – How Do You Do in Arena Chaos?

August 14, 2006Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
The arena was filled with horses. One horse and "new to us" rider  didn't even know we were fearful. She was new. We rode in an organized chaos. We all rode in a straight line somewhere and first stopped and did hindquarter perfect turns. Then we trotted, stopped and did our hindquarter perfect turns. After we did that for a while, we started at the walk again and did perfect forequarter turns...and then again at a trot. How do you think Sue did with horses going every which way? She was…