Evening ride
23 May 2010 23:46![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glenatronWhen I arrived at the yard today it was way too hot to ride a black horse, so after some chores and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sleepsy_mouse joining me, we left Zorro where he was and went around a few other places on our way to our lesson with Julian, which was really good. He seems quite pleased with how we sit on a horse now and we're even allowed reins - though we're still on the lunge - and managed to get on well with those as well.
We visited Small on the way home - he's been making some positive progress since his operation but this evening he wasn't feeling so great. The heat had probably got to him and everyone has their ups and downs after major surgery, but it wasn't good to see. He had some extra checks and treatment which meant that we were there for longer than expected and only got back to the yard around seven o'clock.
I went and grabbed my horse and we went off for an evening ride around the valley. It was pleasantly cool and new not-allowed-to-stop Zorro is a much more steadygoing trail horse. I think our big dispute a week or so back actually did get through to him a little and the strategy I have adopted since then seems to be helping too. Today we rode through both herds of ponies that graze on the nature reserve here and we kept going calmly and steadily although Zorro did want to stare at them as we went past, which is understandable. Really good.
Black ears and bluebells in the chestnut coppice.
What are sunsets for if not staring nobly into?
When we got back it was almost dark and then I had to walk home in the increasingly gloomy evening. It was fine along the ridge, but through the woods with the rustling of night creatures scampering unseen around me it was a tiny bit eerie. I tend to get more superstitious at times like those. Also more cowardly especially as my phone battery went flat just as I got to the darkest part. I did walk home in record time though.
sleepsy_mouse joining me, we left Zorro where he was and went around a few other places on our way to our lesson with Julian, which was really good. He seems quite pleased with how we sit on a horse now and we're even allowed reins - though we're still on the lunge - and managed to get on well with those as well.We visited Small on the way home - he's been making some positive progress since his operation but this evening he wasn't feeling so great. The heat had probably got to him and everyone has their ups and downs after major surgery, but it wasn't good to see. He had some extra checks and treatment which meant that we were there for longer than expected and only got back to the yard around seven o'clock.
I went and grabbed my horse and we went off for an evening ride around the valley. It was pleasantly cool and new not-allowed-to-stop Zorro is a much more steadygoing trail horse. I think our big dispute a week or so back actually did get through to him a little and the strategy I have adopted since then seems to be helping too. Today we rode through both herds of ponies that graze on the nature reserve here and we kept going calmly and steadily although Zorro did want to stare at them as we went past, which is understandable. Really good.
Black ears and bluebells in the chestnut coppice.
What are sunsets for if not staring nobly into?
When we got back it was almost dark and then I had to walk home in the increasingly gloomy evening. It was fine along the ridge, but through the woods with the rustling of night creatures scampering unseen around me it was a tiny bit eerie. I tend to get more superstitious at times like those. Also more cowardly especially as my phone battery went flat just as I got to the darkest part. I did walk home in record time though.
