[HairOfTheDog]

I only rode her once, at her previous home, when we were looking at her I rode her first, after the owner (I don't get on a horse until the owner has ridden all three gaits on a horse that's for sale).

But since then ecurbh's been the only one to ride her. I kinda wanted it to be that way, that she was ecurbh's horse, and bonded with him. That's hard to maintain when I feed most meals, but I wanted him to be her boss.

It's not vital that it always be that way, we should be able to ride either horse, but I thought it important that I not meddle too much or step in to correct anything with her for him unless I had to. And I haven't had to.

She's a bit of a fussy grouch on the ground, so she's no picnic. But he's learned how to take control of that and I think it's been better for him that I didn't get in the habit of jumping in and taking over if there was a moment of difficulty, as is my worry-wart tendency. She's never done anything crazy, so it was a deliberate decision for me to back off. I still give him an earful of suggestions :~D

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Hello,

Looks like everyone is showing back up at the same time.

I was going thru the pictures I took today to delete the ones I didn't want to keep and found some that I missed that I wanted to post. Hope no one minds more picutres:

Trail coming up out of the deep water crossing

This next picture has a bit of a story behind it. This old hollow log has been out there on this trail since I first rode this trail 19 years ago. I still remember the first time I rode past it. For some reason (probably because I was such a city slicker) I thought this hollow log was the coolest thing. For a long time I referred to this trail as the trail with the hollow log. 19 years ago it wasn't falling apart. When it first started cracking up, I remember thinking, dam, I don't want that thing to disappear. But so far it's still here:) Isn't if funny the things we can get sentimental about.

Looking down the county line road, my property is at the bottom on the left.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Push

Becky

[RMDupree]

It's neat that they are learning from each other.

I guess it's essential to build that one-on-one relationship right off the bat to finally reach that "horse-n-rider-as-1" thing.