Saturday at the barn was nice. Crazy amounts of snow just dumped from the sky for a while. I took Colonel out for a walk in it and he was super good. He kept shaking the snow out of his forelock but I think that's fair. I took him straight to the hay barn after his walk to saddle him up. He really does keep getting better, ever so slowly. We continued to work on calmly following the rail. We spent a huge amount of time trotting to the right. Partially because he's not very good to the right in general, and partially because he was massively unhappy that Niki was outside the arena. There was lots of bucking and circling and bucking. I felt (and probably looked) like a sack of potatoes for the rush trot-bucking. It is actually nice to have something un-subtle to work on though. It just doesn't get much less subtle than bucking and charging. If things ever get too subtle again Alyssa has agreed to walk Lady in an out of the arena. We just kept trotting and circling and weaving around basically at random until Colonel calmed down. By the time Alyssa came in to sit down and make wincing faces at us, most of the worst was over.
I'm working on forcing myself to be more disciplined with Star. There was a time when it was both beneficial and impressive to be able to just tool around on Star and do whatever came to mind. Now she needs to learn to actually use her back and be a more comfy, responsive ride. So we did trot poles. We cantered around a little, which she wasn't pleased about. I just about fell off her when she put her head down and shook herself from head to tail but kept cantering. I swear it felt like the front half of the horse just disappeared entirely. If it weren't for the pommel on Robert's saddle being so high... I shudder to think. Alyssa just laughed.
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