Big Black Mare Day

I started cleaning stalls late, and the tractor ran out of gas while I was midway out in the field, so I didn't have a lot of time to actually work horses. Gillian wasn't there so I didn't really want to ride Niki. Instead, I longlined Libby outside. She was good, I was not really good at doing trotting butterflies. I didn't notice where my outside rein was and let it slip right out of my hands. But, I asked her to stop and she did, I picked it up and continued. No drama.

Rode Papillon. Indoors, which she was upset about. I thought about taking her out, but I was supposed to give Colleen a lunging lesson, and also it's RennFayre today and I didn't want to have something terrible happen and end up missing it/being incapacitated for it. Ten minutes walk, fifteen minutes trot, ten minutes walk. She was.... herself, I guess. We did 20m circles and she started to round a little bit. Opinionated mare.

Taught Colleen how to lunge with Colonel. He was really good. He did a little spook when Jack kicked dirt at him, which I find totally acceptable, and was not a fan of Jack running around by the creek with a rustling plastic bag clutched in his hand. Colonel was just disobedient enough that Colleen had to give clear commands. He anticipated her like whoa, but that's okay, since that means she was doing the right things.

It felt realllllly good to sleep in my own bed. Three days at the barn is, shockingly, enough.