Friday, January 30
Jan. 31st, 2026 02:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Good sleep. My Sweetie fed the monsters so I could keep snoozing.
Later in the afternoon he headed to the city to climb.
I did chores, then headed to the riding barn.
River did well today, we even moved past the distraction of hearing the other horses being fed without too much fuss. He did still rush the trot to the right today, but was better after some work.
I stayed for the woman with health challenges' session. R's daughter L came too, to ride. I worked with Poppy the Pokey Pony today, and it was super frustrating trying to get her to trot while being lunged. I felt mean getting her going, but she FAKES it so hard. She can absolutely trot, but always makes like she cannot, and won't even walk with purpose. I honestly don't know if I've ever worked with a horse that was that lazy.
It was fun riding with L today, she is 18 and was telling me about going to the bar for her friend's 18th birthday. I think she had fun, though it was past her normal bedtime (seriously, she goes to bed around 8 pm if she can).
She gave me a small dragon sculpture she made, I think out of drying sculpture clay.
We all went upstairs to spend some time with the kittens, who are now more like fat little cats. They are now house cats, I think, but do still come to the barn loft sometimes.
L was teaching them how to spin for a treat, and the woman with health challenges got to do that with them.
I came home, and returned Dandy to his people. My husband got home around the same time.
I made supper for me, he ate soup, and we watched "Eastern Promises", which has the most incredibly brutal fight scene in a sauna, that made me flinch just watching it.
Good sleep. My Sweetie fed the monsters so I could keep snoozing.
Later in the afternoon he headed to the city to climb.
I did chores, then headed to the riding barn.
River did well today, we even moved past the distraction of hearing the other horses being fed without too much fuss. He did still rush the trot to the right today, but was better after some work.
I stayed for the woman with health challenges' session. R's daughter L came too, to ride. I worked with Poppy the Pokey Pony today, and it was super frustrating trying to get her to trot while being lunged. I felt mean getting her going, but she FAKES it so hard. She can absolutely trot, but always makes like she cannot, and won't even walk with purpose. I honestly don't know if I've ever worked with a horse that was that lazy.
It was fun riding with L today, she is 18 and was telling me about going to the bar for her friend's 18th birthday. I think she had fun, though it was past her normal bedtime (seriously, she goes to bed around 8 pm if she can).
She gave me a small dragon sculpture she made, I think out of drying sculpture clay.
We all went upstairs to spend some time with the kittens, who are now more like fat little cats. They are now house cats, I think, but do still come to the barn loft sometimes.
L was teaching them how to spin for a treat, and the woman with health challenges got to do that with them.
I came home, and returned Dandy to his people. My husband got home around the same time.
I made supper for me, he ate soup, and we watched "Eastern Promises", which has the most incredibly brutal fight scene in a sauna, that made me flinch just watching it.
