Tonight, I grabbed the big ball…
… and started rolling it at Rocky. He’s not afraid of it, and has concluded that it is a treat dispenser, as sometimes when he rolls it over, he finds a cookie on the ground behind it.
We invented a whole new game, which he played, at Liberty, in the 70 x 80 arena, until I ended it while we were still having fun.
Then I even rode with the bareback pad, continuing through my awkwardness until I found some fluidity, and then all done.
One of Pat’s favorite sayings is:
Good, better, best
Never let it rest
Make your good better
And your better best
It’s memorable and cute, but what do you do when you’re nowhere even close to “good”? I had to write a “prequel” poem after my educational and triumphant Freestyle session today:
From poor to fair
Almost there
You can only reach good
If you don’t despair
Or maybe I should just go with the Galaxy Quest motto. Never give up! Never surrender!
I feel like I had a day-long seminar in horsemanship. (Principle #7 in action.) Let me see if I can record it here with enough subheads and multimedia to make it skimmable and interesting.
Barking Horse Farm, Costa Rica
Costa Rica's First Parelli Natural Horsemanship Workshop Host and Horseback Riding Treks Since 2008
Rocking Z Guest Ranch, Wolf Creek, Montana
Cattle work, trail riding, and fishing -- Parelli style
GNU Terry Pratchett
(I don't host my own wordpress so can't use the more sophisticated plug-in that whispers the name in the code, but here's my own participation in keeping Terry alive in the clacks)
Horsegirl on a Journey 