Klaudia, 06/21/2013

Line-up for the trailride

Tes and me at the end

Today the L3/4 course finished. We had a wonderful trailride with lots of fun in the forest including walk, trot, little jumps, backing off. Tes did fantastic. She is such a nice horse!

Before lunch students and instructors shared their highlights, it was very emotional for all of us and lots of hugging. Students received their certificates and a T-shirt as a surprise gift.

L3/4 class

Those 2 weeks were full of hightlights, I have many beautiful pictures of wonderful relationsships between the students and their horses in my mind, so inspiring.

In the afternoon we had a Liberty session "find the human", "Property game" with Nita-Jo in the arena grande. It was a great session. Tes and I did mainly the principle games as On line prep for Liberty and also when the halter was off. Thanks to Nita-Jo's explanation and Tes, it was really clear that it's not about keeping your horse with you. If the horse wants/ needs to leave it is ok. In this case, the other instructors helped your horse out to find the human again, they are your safety net. It is not about what you do, when your horse leaves but what you do, when it comes back!
After the Liberty session, Tes had a bath in the pond. She really enjoys being in the water. Little seahorse. She even started to lie down. 

As some of the students and their horses left after lunch, it was very quiet during dinner.

Tes and a squirrel sharing oats

Lil' squirrel took over the feed pan of Tes

After dinner we cleaned our horses pens, gave water and feed. Tes often has visitors in her pen (duck, chipmonks). Today there was a squirrel she shared her oats with. Isn't she cute?!

This is all smoke, no clouds

Snowmobiles

I made a pic of those 2 snowmobiles on the ranch. Something hard to imagine with the current temperatures and the dryness.
Unfortunately there are new wildfires around south of Colorado. Wolf Creek Pass is closed so far. Some of the students have to take a longer trip back home. Safe travels!!!