Books with Spirit – Joyfulness between horses and people

Boots and Sunny in their float training today would both have loaded all the way into the float today just because I asked – but in my judgement neither was OK to go past the shoulders just inside the float.  Any further would I think, have taken them too close to their oh shit zones - where if anything went wrong they would have definitely been in their oh shit zones.  And we have all the time in the world (well 6 weeks or so until we move house) and don’t need to even go there.

They both had their front feet in the float and the back feet on the ramp and had that in their comfort zone when we finished.  Well done babies!

We have a lovely comfort zone partly in the float to start off with tomorrow, or the next day or whenever I get around to the next stage…

And just to cap off my amazing day, I took Bobby out onto a bush track for a 6 kilometre trot / extended trot / canter – at liberty (that’s no ropes no nothing on him) with me driving alongside him with the Four wheel drive and float and calling him to stay beside me out of the car window.   Yes, you read that right – he trots along beside the car, completely at liberty, out on bush tracks and stays with me at the speed that I request.

But that’s not the wonderful thing with my amazing horse – we do that all the time…

He very strongly persuaded me today, to ride bridle-less, nothing on his head and not even a string around his neck, out in the bush, for kilometres, (in a bareback pad no less!) playing at climbing up and down the (small) banks beside the track.  It was such fun.

And to cap it off, he jumped on the float at liberty and we came home…

Man, we enjoyed ourselves!  What a wonderful way to spend a cold, damp winter’s day!