Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Riding lesson...lunging
Crazy day! Middle of April, and it snowed! I was wondering what the store would do with the plants outside in the nursery. As I drove by, I noticed that most of them had been sheltered inside. Yesterday, I began preparing the house for guests. I put clean sheets on the beds, vacuumed, cleaned the bathrooms. Today I changed the pine chips in the rabbit cage, and siphoned water out of the aquarium and replaced it with clean water. I addressed and sent off my parent's Easter card.
I had a riding lesson today. It was a bit discouraging as 2 inches of snow and ice were on the car, and of course the wiper blades had ice on them. I ran them and the defroster and eventually the water on the windshield evaporated. I'm glad that I didn't have to round up Tamara as I had a good chance of leading in the wrong horse! My instructor got a new trial bay, Hope and she has decided not to put Jay up for sale. So, I groomed Tamara and with my instructor's help, put on the saddle blanket, saddle riser, saddle and bitless bridle. Because of the snow and Tamara's level of energy, my instructor decided to lunge her. She asked me if I got dizzy if I twirled around. I told her yes, because I thought I would be doing the kiddie version of "helicopter." But lunging means turning a slow circle as the horse walks, trots and canters. I spent the lesson lunging Tamara and trying to get her to listen to my commands. It's a bit tricky, because as in the first lesson, I gave her mixed signals. For example, I spoke slowly when I wanted her to trot. Tamara knows the cadence as the signal, so I needed to speed up "Trot!," kissy sound to make her canter, say "And...Walk." to have her walk. Time was up before I knew it, and with all the lunging, I didn't have time to ride.
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