An oh boy moment!!

So last night after I wrote my blog Blue and I went for a walk in the enchanted forest at liberty (Blue is loose), there's a fence that surrounds the area, but it's about 10 acres or so. Anyway, we strolled around and she was real sweet and stuck with me the entire time. Sometimes she'd let herself fall behind and then she'd come flying to come catch up to me again. We grazed some at the back and strolled back again. We came by the pedestal and she got up on it and so I gave her a cookie. Well, seeing she got a cookie for that she went and loaded herself in the trailer, hahahahah! So now I really have a self loading pony :) It was a nice night.

Then today, we did our morning routine of going to lay down in the roundpen while I fed her grain. She basically brings me to the roundpen now! Then we learned about synchronizing, and taking leadership, and then letting the horse take the leadership.

In the afternoon I went to the Savvy Spotlight remuda, but before that I took her to the roundpen to do some practising. Well, that's where I made the mistake. I decided at that time that I was not going to give Blue as many grain treats, I was not going to let her turn and face me for grain treats, and last I was not going to let her bring her shoulder in to me to come stand next to me. Well, big mistake! By the end of that roundpen session she really didn't care so much for me :( It wasn't that dramatic, but she definetly let me know that her feelings were seriously hurt!!! Her shoulder moving in is her comfort, so I don't think I'm going to push her away really anymore. She asked much more politely after I told her not to do it. And she's being better about the grain as well.

But the problem was, we had to go put on a savvy spotlight! So we had 4 people at a time with a bunch of people watching. The 4 people had to play with their horses for a song. Well, my draw was basically half broken. She was coming in, but it wasn't like it was the day before. And she was doing half of what I asked her. So I just kept it light and easy and just took what she offered. 3 minutes is really to short to do much of anything anyways. But it was fun, and I learned not to be hard on my pony.

So tonight I went into the enchanted forest again and we played a bit at liberty. At one point she saw another horse and trotted off and left me, hahah. But when I got about 100 feet from her I whistled and she came cantering back to as if to say, what took you so long! So then I played with her on the 45 and was practising cantering out there by herself. WOW, did we have a RBE moment! First it started with a simple buck in one "corner", then the next time she went around it was another buck, added by another one a couple of feet further. Then the third time she really got creeped out and had a little rodeo, and then she went completely peppe le pew crazy tearing around. So I watched her for a bit, because I don't get to see it very often, it was cute! Then she was really getting crazy and just running as fast as she could, so I decided it better be time to interrupt the pattern before she's hurt. She was still there because she turned and cantered towards me and snorted right in my face, a couple of times! hahaha! Then I send her and did some falling leaf and that was fun!!!! I never get to deal with a right brain anymore, so it was fun!!!!!!! But not good for her, so I got her to settle down. Then she really stuck to me!!! After she caught her breath I send her out on the canter again and she controlled herself :)

On our stroll back we stood on the pedestal again and she loaded herself again. Then I asked her to load up again and she did so I was able to get to the front of the trailer and give her some grain. Then she took me to the roundpen because she wanted to lay down and eat some grain again, hahah. It's her new trick now. I wonder if I should keep her out of the roundpen tomorrow until my savvy spotlight, haha, because she'll want to lay down right away, hahah. We'll see how it goes tomorrow!