It labor day, not that we remembered or anything. The days seem to fly by in no particular order when one is on "leave" from his or her work! grin. Its raining like the dickens, so we are all inside with our noses pressed to the windows, looking out in wonder at all the different ways rain can fall from the skies. I asked Tim how this would be any different from a hurricane and he reminded me it would be windier. Oh yeah, I forgot about wind.... grin!
Luckily yesterday I worked with cuervo for a bit. We had a great time. The new sidepull setting Ive got his rambo bridle on is great. He objects way less to the pressure than on the under the chin setting. I have owned this horse over three years, I have about a dozen rides on him. Two in a bit and the rest in some version of bitless. I'm soooo freaking dense!!! In all this time of starting and stopping with him, I've been thinking he will get past his reaction to different bridles when he becomes responsive( reaction to response remember that?) uh, big old DUH! on my part....freaking horse is responsive! But becomes reactive to the over the top cueing from the very thing I'm waiting for him to tell me hes OK with. What I should have been doing is wondering why he only ever told me how NOT OK it all was. I believe this is called not being able to see the forest for the trees....haha. In any case since this bitless thingy is an experiment I reckon I'll be learning quite a bit more as I go. I'm just really grateful that a horse like this has come my way to teach me about it.
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