Saturday 14th February

Today was a lovely sunny day, so I started with spending some undemanding time with Blossom out in the field letting her graze.

We then headed back into the indoor school and today our main play session was on the 45ft rope and the whole aim of today was not to get ourselves tangled up! For my first time playing with the 45ft rope it actually went ok, but I really need to start playing with this more. Today we really just played with things we can do, just so I could practice my rope handling skills and have a nice play with Blossom without asking too much from her.

During our play today I also left the 12ft rope attached to the halter and made it into reins to try and get Blossom more used to this and see if just having them around her neck, without the risk of anyone pulling on them will help her with her confidence about being ridden with the halter and reins on..

I then mounted bareback and I left the halter and reins on and all I done to start with was a passenger lesson at walk, Blossom was very relaxed. As everything was going well, I then started asking for 9 step back up every now and then as she knows this and seems confident doing this I thought it was a good task to start playing with the reins.

I should also mention that I am still playing with Smarty, but as I now only have a couple of weeks left here I am mainly playing with Blossom to make sure I get the most out of my last 2 weeks and play with new tasks so I can get help from Eddy if I have any problems so I don’t go home and then try new tasks and run into lots of problems that I am unsure how to deal with.