Extern: Day 46

Really nice morning focusing on having straightness with our horses using less of our carrot sticks and more of our reins! Once we start carrot stick riding we often rely on our carrot stick more then out legs! What would happen if you couldn't use your carrot stick? Are you prepared? Then we went on a trail ride to scooch mountain, it's a very steep steep hill with really good footing and really makes the horses get on their hind end. It was our second time going and Annabelle always does fine and I always get nervous about it! This afternoon we had some horse development time. 

Externship: Day 44

Been neglecting my blog- not on purpose just very tired! Over half way through our course it's so crazy it started going by slow now the weeks go by so fast. Annabelle has made huge progress. Very proud of her, she has so much try. Today we did liberty in the big arena and she left at the beginning but trotted right back to me. She went over jumps, did an amazing stop, when I would run away she would run to keep up with me. And I got flying changes. 

Extern: The best days of my life

So so so happy tonight, I am so blessed to have such an amazing horse, an amazing partner. She was fantastic during our performance last night up at Pats big top for the savvy team BBQ demo and again tonight at the fair. I haven't felt this full in a long long time. I'm learning so much and have two awesome instructors who help us learn information and retain it and put it to use. They believe in us, and in me, which helps me learn even more. A lot of self discovery this time around and it has been great. Being myself is so hard to do, but once I do it I feel so much better. So happy and so proud of my girl! 

Extern: Day 36

So sorry for not posting! Got behind lady week on sleep and blog posting had to wait. Can't believe we are in week 6! It's crazy to think that. Today we got a lesson with Ellie Pat's barn manager and she taught us about how to get our horses more connected to our body and not using our reins! 'The more you use the reins the less they use their brains!' It was awesome. Very demanding of Annabelle though but she did well. Then this afternoon we practiced for our savvy teams on Wednesday and that also went well. Got home and in bed early, perfect way to end a Monday.