Summer Work

Demetrias' favorite thing in the world is sun baking in the sand. I've mentioned this before. Last week I was out of town for several days and so our routine was thrown off and he has yet to recover. Now I am VERY aware that we had a full moon, 2 eclipses and a lot of storms. The ground feels different to him right now and all of the above things affect him. But this has been a rather ridiculous riding week. Monday I came off because he bucked or something without any warning. If I could fall off that way every time I would be happy to fall off routinely. There were no flips involved and I landed lightly on my feet and then fell onto my butt. He proceeded to trot away towards the gate (rather than run) and I called to him "gate" inside the ring he can't do much damage, out of the ring there are many things to run into which naturally, stresses him and I out. As soon as his dangling reins touched the braided twine gate, he stopped- good boy!
Tuesday he got off easily since a friend came to visit him so he mostly followed me around the ring. Wed he totally got the day off because of the storm that blew in. And Thursday and Friday were 2 of the most unbalanced and unfocused rides, ever!!!
Friday he got his butt kicked on the lunge line because it was either slow walk or buck... sheesh. Hoping today will be better. I know he is bound to have these days and that we are dealing with a learning process but somedays its super frustrating.

Where did the month of May go??

I am not entirely sure where the month of May went??? BUT it is the ending of school is always extremely insane and so I guess that's where all the time went...
Demetrias is doing really well as of late. We're dealing with the insane heat and Kim has been patiently working me through all the basics things that he needs. My goal has been to ride him about 5 times a week even if its only 15-20 minutes. He has been doing well however I think one of the biggest things that has changed is my outlook.
Three weeks ago I was an overwhelmed owner of a blind horse. Two weeks ago Kim put me on a different horse because D hadn't been worked in 4 days because I was out of town... something in my brain clicked. I was able to view my horse not as his caregiver but as his rider. It sounds dumb and extremely simple but its exactly what I have been waiting for I just didn't know it. He is blind and needs special care but he is willing and able to work for which I am grateful.
Today we worked on canter transitions quite a bit and because I have spent a lot of time observing my horse I was able to remind myself that although his left canter feels HUGE it isn't really and D will in fact stop when asked.
This is short and random but this is where the month of May and beginning of June has taken D and I...