When the bus got to Clackamas Town Center and Gillian didn't get on the bus, I thought, aha! I beat her today!

And then I got there and she'd been there for an hour already. Damn.

Saddled up the Gold Brothers and went out, both are happiest being in the lead. Reno pranced the entire way around and got real pissy that I wouldn't let up on his bit enough for him to have his head. This is because he didn't walk. Somehow the release when he walked didn't catch on. He got extra pissy when we parted ways with Keno to trot around. We did the world's slowest, rocking-chairiest lope for a few strides when we got to the curvy part, but since Gillian and Keno were tearing through it we tried going off to the middle path. The middle path and curvy path are separated, apparently, by a large number of very prickly plants. Reno was not thrilled and I admitted he had a point. We pranced back to the barn.

I think then I decided to take Dylan out, while Robert was busy with Imp. I said before that I crosstied him by clipping one on and running a long lead through the loop of another. This turned out to be sort of a good thing, because when I put the surcingle on he spooked, ran, and whirled. I caught the end of the lead so he wasn't loose, but he finished breaking the quicklink that Papillon started. We put everything on and he was calm, but he did manage to rip part of my finger up. Somehow. I don't know how. He was excitable while lunging, probably because there were three other horses in the arena.

As I put Dylan back Gillian went by and said something about "Robert might have you ride Luca in twenty minutes, but he also might...." and I lost it at that point. So I wandered around and talked to Cari and read the dressage tests again. Whenever I did eventually ride Luca, he was good. Sluggish, so we did some transitions and he remembered what was going on. No real fits that I remember. We did! canter about halfway around the arena. He's forward and really powerful and I need to remember to contain my fears that he's going to try to kill me. Oh, Gillian and Star were out in the field, and he absolutely could not stop watching them. It was annoying and made me pretty antsy because he was getting really tense. I need to relax. Relaaaax.

Fed. Ian came home. That was interesting.