Oh Oh, My LBI is baaaaaaaack!

Today was fun. I went to the RBI remuda and learned all about them. I wish Jeanette and Mom were here to listen to all the things because it would make things so much clearer to them! I asked them to video tape it at some point so that everyone can hear about it! I think one day they will! It was just great!

Then I was in a demo, only blue didn't feel like following the pattern, so we didn't really do the next part of the demo, haha. But it was way more fun to watch a demo from a horses back instead of sit on a hard bench! Fawn came over to me after that and asked me to donate Blue to her, hahaha, because she has one that looks just like her, so she wants to make a team out of them. But nope! Blue bug is MINE, all MINE :):):):):):):)

Then we did carrot stick riding and I decided to try to tie the plastic bag to the end of it. I hadn't done that before but it was actually super good!!! Blue was sensitive but not scared of it! So it was a good combo. Normally she just ignores the stick until I need to deliver a phase 4 and then she gets scared of it, so we normally don't get very far. But today was great. We did the direct, indirect, and disengagements with out reins, so that was cool. Then we did stick to the rail and transitions. Well, her stop is awesome, I pretty much fall onto her neck each time, haha! Then I played with my saddle more again and changed my wintec tree into the super wide and see how it feels tomorrow.

Then tonight after dinner it was so nice that I took her for a walk at liberty again. Well, the LBI is back!!!! She was like yeah, yeah, I'll kinda follow you, but I'd rather graze. The first couple of days she was worried and stuck to me like glue, but not tonight!! I was a good 100 feet away from her and she was still just completely content. So then I started to sneak back to zone 5 and she glanced, but didn't turn and face, so she got a good little swack, but she turned and faced and then went right back to grazing. Oh man, oh man, so I asked a couple more times and got completely ignored. So I decided to put the halter back on, and then I made her move her feet. Snappy departures, change of directions at the canter, fast backups, sideways trots. She looked FANTASTIC! like a cow pony, so athletic. She knows when she's irked me to make her work and then she can feel the pressure, hahaha. It was in all good fun ofcourse, but she still knew she had pushed it a bit too far. So after about 5 minutes of that I took the halter back off, and I had my lovely sweet pony with me again, hahhaahaha. Then she grazed and I walked off quickly and I would see her look up and I'd start running away and she came flying towards me in a gallop, and bucking like crazy, hahhahaha, and came to a sliding stop in front of me. It's just so amazing what moving a horses feet can do for leadership!! And then we went back to her pen for her evening peanut hay.

Anyway, another totally fun day and I'm excited for tomorrow again!