Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

[glenatron]

So tonight I started working with Othello.


I just went into his bit of the field and put on a rope halter to get him used to it and check the fit. We spent a while standing together while he tested the limits of my personal space and I explained to him that I didn't want him to come too close- waving the rope around a bit and generally moving a lot until he pulled back a bit and rewarding that with stillness. He seemed to get the idea fairly quickly and we did a bit of walking along the top of the field. This mostly worked alright, but it's quite hard to work on a hillside because one of you is pretty much always down hill and it impedes both of your freedom to move. Tomorrow Lou should be along (she was being chiropracted today) and it should be a bit easier to get him out of the field (to get to the gate we had to go through the half of the field Joe is in and as they've only met over an electric fence this could be risky) and do some work on the flat.

I'm so filled with enthusiasm right now where horsemanship is concerned, it's brilliant. I'm sure I'll be bored of it pretty soon, so I'm going to do everything I can to make the most of this while it lasts...


In other news our record has appeared on Play.com, Woolys, MVC, Tower Records and even Tesco. More to follow...

Comments

[bunting.livejournal.com]

Whow Ben I'm pretty impressed about both the horse training and the record.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Thank-you. It's a pretty cool time right now, but I have managed to do all the busy things pretty much at once. Finding this many hobbies that need you to be pretty much full time is a real gift...

[silks-ic.livejournal.com]

Sweet as
At some point I'll get round to buying it

[spoondog.livejournal.com]

I was just going to download it from somewhere.

[silks-ic.livejournal.com]

Good plan

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

The Man will be very disappointed in you.

[silks-ic.livejournal.com]

Jack Black taught us to stick it to the man
That's what rocks all about

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

So rock is all about a man with things stuck to him?

[bunting.livejournal.com]

So thats why we played pin the tail on the donkey at parties when we were younger.

I didn't my parents were so cool, and rock.