Playing with the Patterns

It is definitely chilly out now, which Pip and I LOVE!!! All three of us hate it when it is over 70 F out, so this is perfect! They have more energy, as do I, so we have been having great days lately!

Pip and I are playing with the Patterns, on our fifth day of them, I believe. Our weave is looking really good, she totally gets it. Our only thing to work on is the corners and keeping the trot. It isn't so subtle yet, but we are truely getting better everyday. Since she HATES trotting circles, the Figure 8 is giving us a little bit of trouble. When she doesn't want to go to the next barrel to circle it, she goes out super wide, nearly behind my back, before tuning into me....A new trick she has learned the other day...

Riding, we have gotten our back-up to the canter transitions quite good. She still gives me a little bit of the trot, but it is looking so much better than when I had my lesson with Nita Jo Rush in July. Probably one 15 feet until she is in the canter. And, this is all at Phase 1!! I am very happy with her, it is really cool to feel that with her. I love it!

We are redoing our pastures, moving and adding them. Where our grass pasture was, we are going to be adding a round pen sort of in it. It will be sticking out of the fenceline that is there now, but it will be so nice to have a real round pen. We have never really had one, only makeshift ones. Now we will have a really nice set up! I am pumped!

Anna, Pip and Daisy Mae