My last post did not lie. I got 3 1/2 hours of sleep total.
LOL.
To make it even better, though, the next day (yesterday) I didn't eat anything until like, 10. PM.
I woke up, said by to my family (who left for the weekend) and went to my friend Brandy's house. Brandy and I put a few of her horses into the fields (She has 3, training another) and then we went to visit the barn where Skyy lives.
We didn't go to see Skyy, but more to see Rose. Rose is a little pinto mare who was completely neglected and is now being slowly brought back to health by her new owner - the manager of the barn Skyy lives in. Brandy and I are probably going to buy Rose from the manager, and take her to Brandy's house to train for the summer. Is that not exciting?! :D
Anyways after we round penned Rose for a bit to see if she was broke at all (so far, we're thinking not), I lunged Skyy and then played the run around the arena with me game. Basically.... I run next to Skyy while she's at a jog, then I run as fast as I can in the arena (which, because of the arena, isn't all that fast, lol) and Skyy'll slowly lope next to me. Thennnn, I randomly turn or stop or pivot or something, and Skyy will either (depending on what I do) A) Run past me and go off into LaLa Land, B) Run into me and kill me, C) Turn with me and continue following me, or D) Stop next to me and not hit me. lol. Skyy usually does either C) or D). :D Anyways!
Leaving that barn, we went to get smoothies and milkshakes, then went to the humane society to ask about their horses - we got a very rude and very unhelpful response. Deciding humane society horses were not what we wanted to deal with; simply because of the humane society, not the horses, we went to Brandy's and rode two of her horses down the beach.
The FUN part. Brandy's horse (now referring the horse Brandy rode as 'Brandy's horse' and the horse I rode as 'my horse') is afraid of mostly everything on a beach/trail ride. So we get to a little creek, and Brandy spends almost 15 minutes trying to get her horse to step over it - finally she has to back her horse through the tiny creek. LMAO. This happens more than once, for anything that looks frightening, Barbie (her horse) simply stops. My horse, Sox, is great on the way down. Real soft, easy going, stopping to munch on some grass when Barbie throws a hissy fit. Not even five minutes after we're heading back, while I'm turned around facing Brandy, Sox spooks (probably at nothing), bucks, bolts, and bucks again. So I grab an inside rein to circle him, right, and his head goes flying into the air and he COMPLETELY ignores me. Thankfully I finally wiggled his head down and to the side and he stops. Brandy is sitting there behind me shocked and laughing insanely - we both thought I'd fall off, but I didn't even drop my cell phone (Which was in my bra)! Go me! lol. This happens one more time on the ride back. Apparently, Sox was anxious to get home.
Of course, I know the reason for this. Sox's old owner (Brandy's sister) would always just let him run back to the barn, totally out of control, literally every time they rode on the beach. Now, for him, it's just habit.
We'll have to work on that.
I'm just saying - I used to think Sox as a real shitty horse - always taking off bucking, biting, being too lazy, always throwing his head up and ignoring any pressure from the bit. After riding him on the beach and in the arena the other day, I have a whole new appreciation for that horse. The only thing that is true about that horse that I just wrote, is his laziness, which, if you ask, he can get up and actually work, rather than just moping around. That horse will drop his head completely if you ask, and no random spooks (other than heading back on the beach, which is a given). He really, just needs a horse that can ride him.
:)
Anywho! Now I'm going to go eat some of the double fudge ice cream Brandy and I bought at 9:55PM last night (5 min to closing), paid for all in quarters at the self checkout. Yeah, the people behind us (there actually were quite a few people there that late) got rather frustrated.
AND! I'm going to finish Legacy, since I'm almost finished with it =p
:D:D
-Jane
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