Thank you Jennifer Vaught for the great lesson and the fun time riding with great friends. Great friends, a great teacher and great horses.\u00a0 The greats pile up!<\/p>\n
We rode slow\u00a0with occasional times of\u00a0speed and many rest periods.\u00a0 We didn’t want sweat.<\/p>\n
OK, most of\u00a0the four hours\u00a0wasn’t outdoors.\u00a0 Most of it was in an indoor arena. Someone did forget to turn on the furnace.\u00a0 I left home at 11:30 and came back at 4:00.\u00a0 The lesson was from 1:00-3:00, but it always runs longer. We did toast up in the indoor lounge after the group lesson, but most of the time I was without heat.<\/p>\n
I discovered, once again, that I can ride in the winter.\u00a0 I remember discovering this fact every year.\u00a0 It gets to be winter and I always assume, I can only survive in my lounge chair.<\/p>\n
But then magically, I’m forced to ride and discover…I can survive!<\/p>\n
On the flip side, the other half of the partnership was convinced that she would die.\u00a0 In the last part of the lesson, we had to canter. We cantered quite a bit and had an\u00a0ongoing argument.\u00a0<\/p>\n
NOVA\u00a0 “I can’t breathe!\u00a0 I must stop and I must stop NOW! Are you kidding me?\u00a0 You haven’t exercised me for 3 weeks and now you want to run me into the ground?\u00a0 NO!\u00a0 I am going to balk! Why don’t you ride Velvet, not me?”<\/p>\n
Susan “Only for a little while longer.\u00a0 You can do it. Don’t die on me.\u00a0 Keep cantering. Stop arguing with me.\u00a0 If you would just canter nicely, we could stop!\u00a0 Velvet lived thru this, it’s your turn now.”<\/p>\n
Nova was so tired at the end of the lesson, that she couldn’t walk to the exit gate.\u00a0 Her saddle was loose.\u00a0 Her bridle was off. She balked twice while I was leading her to the gate.<\/p>\n
Nova is a dominant-argumentative- only-child mare.<\/p>\n
We’ll be riding a lot more winter nights now.\u00a0 No more recliner chair!\u00a0 Well, let’s say, “less recliner chair nights”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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