I didn't realize how long it had been since I wrote my last post. Christmas and New Year has come and gone, and here we are in 2011.
Sienna and I continue to have fun in the snow whenever we can. We started playing with our new 22ft Feather lines. When I drive her with the two 22ft lead ropes, I think there is room for forgiveness, but with the feather lines, it seems to be about how little you have to do to ask a question. It only seems to take a light touch to have a more enhanced level of contact. There was a lot of over-steering on my part at the beginning, but after a while we were in sync and it felt great. You can see some more pictures here.
After our driving session, I climbed up on her bareback and very promptly fell off her for the first time ever..........well I would call it more of a slide :0). We were riding around and something spooked her, now her spooks aren't that big, she just took a leap sideways, but it was enough to start that slide in motion. I remember feeling like it was happening in slow motion and it got to the point where I couldn't save myself, so I swung my arms around her neck and linked my fingers together, then I did this very slow and graceful slide under her neck, at which point my fingers came unlocked and I landed on my butt. Sienna was looking at me as if to say: "how did you end up down there?".
No there are not any pictures, but I wish there were, I would have loved to have captured the look on Sienna's face :0).
I got swept off Cisco s back a few weeks ago by a branch. I was concentrating so hard on what we were doing I didn t see the tree and I had exactly the same experience: I might fall; I m going to fall; I m falling. Next thing I was on my butt and Cisco was looking down at me with a puzzled look on his face!
ReplyDeleteoooops I think I deleted your last comment by mistake :0(
ReplyDeleteI would love to have captured the look on Sienna's face :0)
I don't have the snaps either, but the lines have a small loop on the end so you can feed them back through each other, they work just as well. The snaps are for convenience.
The pictures of Sophie and Milo were great, especially with their little boots ha ha. As for the expression of surprise on Sienna's face I would loved to have seen the expression of disbelief on your face sliding off her back ha ha. I crack up everytime I think about it and could hardly tell Debs because I couldn't stop laughing. Nice one Sharon.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mum, it was a first for me, never slid off her before and glad you can have a laugh at my expense. :0) xox
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