Sunday, January 5

Today I am grateful for:

More nice weather today.

My sweetie went this morning to put in some sweat equity with a guy who helped us this summer.

A good ride on River. We worked on me being consistent in my seat to establish the rhythm. He did well today, and was pretty relaxed and forward.

Nice to help another person at the barn, teaching her how to lunge her horse (who is a good old-timer, and knows how to lunge just fine, so really she just had to put him on the line and he knew what to do).

Coming home and I managed to get some ramen together for my sweetie so he didn't have to catch his flight back to work on an empty stomach.

Saturday:

Grateful for a lesson with a different trainer, who comes to the barn sometimes. I really enjoyed working with her, and she felt that some of the resistance I've been experiencing with River is stemming from me not being enough of a leader with my seat. I need to do more to establish a consistent rhythm in all gaits, and not change my seat if River tries to speed up or slow down; to hold him to MY rhythm. We got some very consistent trotting today, with no tightness or tension at all. It felt good.

Watching "Six String Samurai" with my sweetie, and it was interesting. Kind of a rockabilly post apocalypse samurai movie.

Doing a bunch of drawing.