that we opened on our own! shame we couldn't close it again! but opening it was major progress.
anyway, no one to ride with, but one of the fishermen was just setting off down, so he opened the gate out of the yard. At the bottom of the hill, someone had failed to pay attention to the notice telling them to shut the gate through to the 20 acre, luckily the sheep hadn't noticed. so we went through and fisherman shut it behind us.
Molly walked on fine for a few strides, then blocked (i rather think she wanted man to come with her!). she was getting quite stressy about it, but i said, if you want to go back, we have to open this gate.
So second attempt, we opened the gate and went through without any disasters like knocked knees (mine) - but then of course i couldn't for hte life of me get her turned round so we could shut it again. set jaw? set jaw. no moving her. so we stood.
then fortunately soemone came the other way - had been going to go up the hill to our yard and use our arena, but kindly agreed to go round the 20 acre with me first.
so we did that. got some shoulder in along the lane back to the yard. good conversation about saddles (person had a decouvroux) and related matters
then strop time in the arena - after a nice trot, she decided that was more than enough and set her jaw again. and even wih another horse to follow if she wanted, she wouldn't.
and my schooling stick was missing from its usual place on top of the wall. hope it hasn't gone totally walkabout. it hasn't fallen off the wall the other side, i checked. and i'm 95% positive that is where I left it (it is where i usually leave it - the wall is the perfect height and i usually stop molly at that point and pick it up).
when i eventually got home, decided to mow the front lawn before it rains again (supposed to tip it down for 2 days now) with the result that we didn't have our tea until about 930! eek.
anyway, no one to ride with, but one of the fishermen was just setting off down, so he opened the gate out of the yard. At the bottom of the hill, someone had failed to pay attention to the notice telling them to shut the gate through to the 20 acre, luckily the sheep hadn't noticed. so we went through and fisherman shut it behind us.
Molly walked on fine for a few strides, then blocked (i rather think she wanted man to come with her!). she was getting quite stressy about it, but i said, if you want to go back, we have to open this gate.
So second attempt, we opened the gate and went through without any disasters like knocked knees (mine) - but then of course i couldn't for hte life of me get her turned round so we could shut it again. set jaw? set jaw. no moving her. so we stood.
then fortunately soemone came the other way - had been going to go up the hill to our yard and use our arena, but kindly agreed to go round the 20 acre with me first.
so we did that. got some shoulder in along the lane back to the yard. good conversation about saddles (person had a decouvroux) and related matters
then strop time in the arena - after a nice trot, she decided that was more than enough and set her jaw again. and even wih another horse to follow if she wanted, she wouldn't.
and my schooling stick was missing from its usual place on top of the wall. hope it hasn't gone totally walkabout. it hasn't fallen off the wall the other side, i checked. and i'm 95% positive that is where I left it (it is where i usually leave it - the wall is the perfect height and i usually stop molly at that point and pick it up).
when i eventually got home, decided to mow the front lawn before it rains again (supposed to tip it down for 2 days now) with the result that we didn't have our tea until about 930! eek.
2 comments:
All right!! Opening the gate is half the task, and quite an accomplishment. What a nice fisherman. I guess Molly liked him too. *G*
And how nice of the other rider to go around the field with you. You managed quite a lot for one day!
No wonder tea was so late.
ALways nice when someone's there to do a gate for you.
C
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