Listening Wasn't On My Mare's To-Do List Today

If you ride enough, you'll soon figger out that not every ride is the same as the last ride or even something to gauge future rides by.

I sort of crunched my neck and for a few days, I couldn't ride. So's, today I figgered, since it was gawjus out, now's the time to fork the beastie. Oh, boy, whatta ride I had!

She found more dragons and tasmanian devils to spook at! Her cute little fox-like ears were all over the place, except on me. We had a ride a few days ago where she was 'off' (to put it nicely) and I think she thought she could exploit that and get me to turn around, head to the barn and get put up just THAT much faster.

Well...she was soooo wrong! I rode through it because I felt confident enough to go on. I'm still facing down Bloody Body Syndrome just about every time I ride so I felt like a million bucks when I got back to the barn. Showed her littled spotted ass! That I did!! *hand pump*

The point is, even though she wasn't in the mood to pay much attention to me, we rode through it instead of baling and going back to the barn (like I did the other day). I MADE her listen to me as we went over hill and dale. I only stopped going in any direction when a wheel line was in the way (muddy, which I never ride in) or the grass/alfalfa was so thick I couldn't see where she was putting her delicate little footies. Then I'd turn back.

I'll guarantee you by tomorrow, she will have thought about all this today and will be a better ride manana (a spanish word meaning 'tomorrow' but I don't have the little squiggly thing above the first 'n').

So, instead of doing some sort of voo-doo training scenario that costs bundles of money from a BNTT (big name TV trainer), we got out there and covered some ground and fixed the problem.

Now, THAT'S the way to ride! Yeehaw!! :-)