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glenatronWe're in full thaw now, the snow largely gone leaving the odd dirty pile of slush at the sides of the road and shrinking and diminishing patches of white around the place. The grass and ferns around the garden are all as flat as if someone had run an iron over them, but there is grass again in the ponies' field ( and the ponies can be out again in their own field after it being too slippery for some time ) and then today, miracle of miracles, sunshine!
Consequently, we all rode our ponies this morning.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sleepsy_mouse rode out for a gentle hack on Small pony and I schooled Zorro. Considering it was only a few weeks since we last did any proper schooling we seemed to have lost a lot of it- he was still there but everything was a bit kind of washy and sluggish so we spent most of the session sharpening things up, working to get him a little further in front of my leg and re-connect with his feet. It wasn't a great session but it was really good to be back in the saddle again and I have an idea for some things I want to work on from now and I'm having some ideas about how I might work on them too. Small pony was, as ever, outstanding and sleepsy_mouse came home over the moon.
Unfortunately I have a bit of a suspicion I'm headed for another cold, judging by my jitteriness and general unnecessarily anxious demeanor over the last day or so- there seem to be a few colds around that start out with those or with crazily vivid dreams. Either way I'm coughing and harrumphing a bit now and I wouldn't be surprised at all to find I wake up tomorrow encumbered with the ill.
On the upside, the Sky family movie channel has really come through this weekend - Kung Fu Panda last night ( which I have never seen before but was truly excellent ) and now it's just started Prince Caspian, which I've kind of been vaguely thinking I'd like to see at some point. Problem solved.
Consequently, we all rode our ponies this morning.
sleepsy_mouse rode out for a gentle hack on Small pony and I schooled Zorro. Considering it was only a few weeks since we last did any proper schooling we seemed to have lost a lot of it- he was still there but everything was a bit kind of washy and sluggish so we spent most of the session sharpening things up, working to get him a little further in front of my leg and re-connect with his feet. It wasn't a great session but it was really good to be back in the saddle again and I have an idea for some things I want to work on from now and I'm having some ideas about how I might work on them too. Small pony was, as ever, outstanding and sleepsy_mouse came home over the moon.Unfortunately I have a bit of a suspicion I'm headed for another cold, judging by my jitteriness and general unnecessarily anxious demeanor over the last day or so- there seem to be a few colds around that start out with those or with crazily vivid dreams. Either way I'm coughing and harrumphing a bit now and I wouldn't be surprised at all to find I wake up tomorrow encumbered with the ill.
On the upside, the Sky family movie channel has really come through this weekend - Kung Fu Panda last night ( which I have never seen before but was truly excellent ) and now it's just started Prince Caspian, which I've kind of been vaguely thinking I'd like to see at some point. Problem solved.