We got to ride three of the four days of Christmas. Christmas Eve was a brief, one hour ride out to the alfalfa field. We loped around and did a few exercises, but generally just screwed off and had some fun.
Christmas Day we rode in the morning for a couple of hours. It was cool (I promise not to use the word cold anymore, Iowa) but we put on an extra layer and headed out to the development. We did a nice long trot and some loping out there. We practice taking lead and doing some lead changes. Christmas afternoon we had some friends and family over and stuffed ourselves.
Saturday the weather was gloomy and we caught up on chores and decided to go see a movie. Up in the Air with George Clooney was a nice Saturday afternoon flick.
Sunday, we rode our loop backwards. We trotted down the canal out to the big square. We trotted and loped over some construction pipes at the development and came back around the far side of the canal. From there we rode to the alfalfa field and practiced some stops and rollbacks. I shot some video and took a few pictures that I hope to get posted some time this week. End of the year is a bit hectic around here.
Hope y'all had a great holiday.
3 comments:
Well I'm glad someone got to ride. I got out long enough to give the ponies their candy canes. Lu was the only one that enjoyed hers. Even if it warms up the snow is knee/hock deep and it just keeps coming.
Candy canes? That's a good idea. Ours got the Skode's. Yum.
Geesh, couldn't even spell Christmas correctly. I think Alzheimer's is setting in.
Yep I had a few left over candy canes. Black didn't like them and neither did Cat so Lu got them all. I'm in need of a new bag of Skodes for the barn. Know where I can get any? lol Oh hey, maybe my alzheimer's is rubbing off on you. lol
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