Fancy is a Go horse. \u00a0She likes to go. \u00a0She likes to speed up. \u00a0Fancy is a wheels down freight train. \u00a0These are true statements unless she wants to argue.<\/p>\n
Day two of Question Box Pattern. \u00a0I decided to ride with her bridle on today. \u00a0I mounted and we practiced with the neck rope. \u00a0We turned circles around the question box obstacles. \u00a0I really don’t like the neck rope. \u00a0It’s too short. I have to put the neck rope up on her neck which makes me lean forward. \u00a0That isn’t good because my body position is ruined. \u00a0Practice, Susan. \u00a0Practice is wonderful. Of course I had to use the horsemanship stick and the reins for backup teaching.<\/p>\n
It’s time for my beloved Question Box Pattern. \u00a0What are patterns good for anyway? \u00a0The answer is everything. \u00a0Patterns fix both the go and the whoa horse. \u00a0After tonight’s ride, I’m wondering if that is correct! \u00a0ha<\/p>\n
If Fancy isn’t arguing, she just might be in her speed up “GO” mode. \u00a0Yes, that is what we did tonight. \u00a0I tried riding one-handed with loose reins. \u00a0We did circles at a trot. \u00a0I tried to slow her down using one rein “jingle bell” action to slow her down. \u00a0That didn’t work at all and I tried a variety of circles. \u00a0She does have the idea to stop in the Question Box, but she starts arguing right before we get there. \u00a0When I say the word trot, that is exactly what we were doing. \u00a0It’s fast and bumpy which doesn’t help me be a precise and wonderful rider. \u00a0My body is jolted, my arms are moving, the rein is bumping trying to get Fancy to slow down into a smooth fox trot. \u00a0Scream<\/p>\n
Finally, I decide to get a soft feel on the reins and control the speed. \u00a0After a few attempts it worked. \u00a0When we had a successful circle, we did get to stop mostly in the Question Box and once or twice at an obstacle. \u00a0We also did get to go find the hidden treat bag. \u00a0Fancy has not seen the bag yet. \u00a0She knows basically where it is, but not exactly. \u00a0heh \u00a0heh \u00a0heh<\/p>\n
We started again with a full arena wall ride. \u00a0Of course she tries to come into the middle. \u00a0Her body is positioned wrong and not balanced. She tries to run over a few cones when trying to move her shoulder illegally into the middle. Geeze Louise, this is darn difficult.<\/p>\n
We go back and try the Question Box Pattern again and get better with my use of soft feel on the reins for better control. \u00a0We try to get a flat foot walk and that is darn difficult. \u00a0Yes, we did get a flat foot walk and did it long enough to land in the Question Box. \u00a0She )got a treat.<\/p>\n
Next I decided on a Million Transitions on the Question Box Pattern. \u00a0We tried flat foot walk to fox trot to canter to fox trot to flat foot walk and whoa. \u00a0Good Lordy. \u00a0Fancy is a speed demon trying to zig zag the Question Box Obstacles.<\/p>\n
Fancy won today. \u00a0I lost. \u00a0Still, I love to go fast and fast we went today! \u00a0I had a thrilling ride even though I lost. \u00a0Note: \u00a0I really did win with the joy of riding such an amazing horse.<\/p>\n
I decide we had done enough and go to a corral panel where I can dismount without hitting the ground. \u00a0Fancy knows what we are doing and takes me there. \u00a0Darn! \u00a0I want to dismount from the other side. \u00a0I’ve never dismounted from my left side, always from the right side at the corral panel. \u00a0We have a brief argument and I finally got my position. \u00a0However, my body would not cooperate. \u00a0My body refused to dismount from the left side. \u00a0I told Fancy she had been right after all and we turned around to let me dismount from the left. \u00a0Tonight, standing on the corral panel, I thought was a great idea it would be to massage Fancy’s rear. \u00a0I became a chiropractor and massage her rear end. \u00a0She liked it!<\/p>\n
Due to horrid rain today, Fancy was confined to her stall. \u00a0I had bought two bags of shavings. \u00a0I had cleaned out her stall and emptied the new shavings before I rode. \u00a0After I rode, I spread out the shavings better. \u00a0I took off the saddle and piled it on the cement aisle. She went into her soft and comfy new stall. \u00a0I stuffed hay in her hay bag. \u00a0I carried her water and stood beside her as she drank it. \u00a0I got her alfalfa cubes to eat before her supper time. \u00a0I filled two small buckets for her supper tonight and breakfast tomorrow.<\/p>\n
I had to wear my glasses on my hair as my steamy sweat watered up the lenses. \u00a0My four layer upper body was soaking wet with sweat. \u00a0My three layer lower body was damp. I had laid my hat down on the hay and it now is covered in hay. \u00a0I picked up the Question Box Obstacles and put them away. \u00a0I rode and took care of one horse today and I’m ready for a nap and then bed on New Year’s Eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fancy is a Go horse. \u00a0She likes to go. \u00a0She likes to speed up. \u00a0Fancy is a wheels down freight train. \u00a0These are true statements unless she wants to argue. Day two of Question Box Pattern. \u00a0I decided to ride with her bridle on today. \u00a0I mounted and we practiced with the neck rope. \u00a0We turned circles around the question box obstacles. \u00a0I really don’t like the neck rope. \u00a0It’s too short. I have to put the neck rope up on her neck which makes me lean forward. \u00a0That isn’t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6724,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}