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Mar. 17th, 2007
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Mar. 17th, 2007 05:26 pmI've had a brief tour of Lunacon, talked to some folks, seen art show/dealers, gone to a couple of panels. But I have a sore throat and want to be OK by Monday so I can ride with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
goddessfarmer, so now I am going to sleep for a bit.
Good news: the rats will be picked up tomorrow morning by one of the three co-breeders in the rattery they are going to. We have had huge amounts of fun with them, letting them explore the bathroom and hallway:
Also, we have discovered that rats like cantaloupe better than they like lox.
BTW, I did ride yesterday, but just didn't have time to post about it. One very good lesson on Bearito, with the farm owner Marge instructing. She's quite exacting but supportive at the same time, and was generally positive towards how Bearito and I work together. One fun part: lots and lots of cantering! Marge did the old trick of sticking a folded piece of paper under my butt and seeing how long I could ride Bearito at a variety of paces without losing it, to help me learn to sit more deeply. I did reasonably well, actually.
Marge says Bearito was very well-trained before he got to Windrush, and they've made him even better. Next week she wants me to try cantering him straight down the center of the arena, dropping to a trot and changing leads in the middle; she doesn't think he knows flying change of leads and there is no way I am ready for that. I am still getting a little bit of attitude from him, but some of that is just how he is.
I feel sort of bad for the other woman who rode with me yesterday; she was having a harder time with her pony and Marge was trying to get her to work more independently instead of just following me. And I know it would be better for her to do that; in fact, I suspect the pony would be better behaved and enjoy the lesson, too. But I have no idea how to say that to her. She also won't canter. She had a very bad experience a few months back; while cantering, her horse shied at something and she was thrown into a wall and says she wasn't sure she was going to be able to get up afterwards. I went through a very similar experience when I'd been riding for just over a year (got rubbed off on a jump by a naughty pony who decided at the lats minute to go sideways rather than take the jump, and ripped the back of my leg open), so we have that in common. She perked up a bit when I said it drove my instructor nuts that I *would not canter* for months afterwards.
goddessfarmer, so now I am going to sleep for a bit.Good news: the rats will be picked up tomorrow morning by one of the three co-breeders in the rattery they are going to. We have had huge amounts of fun with them, letting them explore the bathroom and hallway:
Also, we have discovered that rats like cantaloupe better than they like lox.
BTW, I did ride yesterday, but just didn't have time to post about it. One very good lesson on Bearito, with the farm owner Marge instructing. She's quite exacting but supportive at the same time, and was generally positive towards how Bearito and I work together. One fun part: lots and lots of cantering! Marge did the old trick of sticking a folded piece of paper under my butt and seeing how long I could ride Bearito at a variety of paces without losing it, to help me learn to sit more deeply. I did reasonably well, actually.
Marge says Bearito was very well-trained before he got to Windrush, and they've made him even better. Next week she wants me to try cantering him straight down the center of the arena, dropping to a trot and changing leads in the middle; she doesn't think he knows flying change of leads and there is no way I am ready for that. I am still getting a little bit of attitude from him, but some of that is just how he is.
I feel sort of bad for the other woman who rode with me yesterday; she was having a harder time with her pony and Marge was trying to get her to work more independently instead of just following me. And I know it would be better for her to do that; in fact, I suspect the pony would be better behaved and enjoy the lesson, too. But I have no idea how to say that to her. She also won't canter. She had a very bad experience a few months back; while cantering, her horse shied at something and she was thrown into a wall and says she wasn't sure she was going to be able to get up afterwards. I went through a very similar experience when I'd been riding for just over a year (got rubbed off on a jump by a naughty pony who decided at the lats minute to go sideways rather than take the jump, and ripped the back of my leg open), so we have that in common. She perked up a bit when I said it drove my instructor nuts that I *would not canter* for months afterwards.