Me and Scout's play time

Well it finally got sunny at 3 o'clock, so I went outside and was going to play with Eddie. Mostly Audition stuff we were going to do. Eddie was asleep in his stall and Scout was standing in the paddock looking confused. So I haltered Scout up because Eddie is never in a good playing mood when he's asleep.
We had a very good time! We just did some little patterns like, weave, figure eight, falling leaf, circles, obstacles and sideways. He was very confident and very mouthy, so I had to drive him away from me a lot. But that was ok, because we did VERY good 'stick to me's. He's progressing right through Level 2!

Savvy on!

Lea & Scout & Eddie

My New Videoooooooo

Here's it tis!
It's all about Eddie and I this winter. Song by Relient K.
Hope you enjoy it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfe32pMmX9Q

45 Foot Fun - Oh, and Lots of Energy

YAHOO!

Today I went out to play with Eddie with the 45 foot line and he did swimmingly! ;-) We trotted over the cavaleties, we did the figure eight pattern, and I just generally got the feel for the new rope. Here are some pictures of when he had huge bursts of energy:

YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's the boy I know and love!

There, now he's relaxed...

I can't wait to assess! Eddie and I are so ready and I'm so glad we waited until the auditions come out.

SAVVY ON!!!!!!!

Lea & Eddie

~So Much To Say~

Well let's start with yesterday:
Anne came over and I showed her the 7 games with Eddie. She seemed very interested! Then Crissie came over and we just talked about stuff. But the best thing was that she said she would burn the Success Series for us and she would let us use her camera for our audition!!! YAY! THANK YOU SO MUCH CRISSIE!
So I'm happy, happy, happy!
Then today is was all yucky outside so I just hung out with the ponies. But the best part: my 45 foot line came!!! YEEHAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So my sister came out with me and we played with it. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Then I called Keri and we talked for 3 hours!!!!!!!!!
I'M SO HAPPY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD IS SO GOOOOOD!


Lea & Eddie

I thought spring would never come

Well it finally did! It was probably a high of 50 or so today. Needless to say I was so happy!
I was very tired from yesterday's play time so we didn't too much today. We played in the round pen again and then after lunch I rode around. I didn't realize it but I was actually a little unconfident. Me?! Unconfident?! Those two words do not go together! So I did a lot of thresholds with myself. Eddie was very patient. =-) We'd walk down to the end of the paddock and then back to the barn. Approach and retreat.
Sudden thought: I've realized that if I'm unconfident our rides go terrible. Because Eddie needs a very confident leader or else he gets flighty. So I get more unconfident when I'm unconfident because I know I shouldn't be unconfident!
Anyways, we would go out to the outdoor and sideways all the way inside and do that a bunch of times. Then we were both confident enough to go through a huge puddle in the outdoor. He liked that!
Well, tomorrow Crissie and Ann come out to have a Parelli day with us. We're just going to show them around and share ideas! Yay!

Until tomorrow,
Lea & Eddie

Whoo-ee! What a day!

It was so warm out!!!!!!!!!! YAY!
And something else................ The Levels Pathways came out on the forum! I printed it off immediately and read through it. I was so excited when I saw that you only had to do online to get your red string, but I was even more excited to see that you had to do online and freestyle to get your blue string! YES! So I'm very happy.
Well this morning we did a TON. We played over the cavaletiis, jumped the barrels, went for a walk in the pasture around the fence and then we went in the outdoor and played at liberty. He was amazing! He followed me and we played with stick to me, sideways towards and away and then I got on bareback and bridleless. We walked around a little and sidewaysed. I was so happy and proud of him! We went back online and went for a walk around the outside of the pasture. He was very focused on me and didn't care that Scout was on the other side of the property! Herd of two! Yay!
Then this afternoon after we got back from shopping I went out and did the Online self-assessment (with my sister's help) and checked things off that we had accomplished. We had multiple things in Level 4. He was so good!
This weekend I'm going to tape my Level 1 Audition and then send it in! Yay! Then in about a month I'll tape Level 2. I'm so excited! I'm not a goal-oriented person, but this is just plain awesome. How can you not be excited?

Sincerely Natural,
Lea & Eddie

Great Day!

Today was great! It was cold, but it was very sunny, so that helped A LOT! I read with the ponies this morning because I needed to get out of the house and take a break from school. So then I groomed Eddie and put tea tree oil on his cracks and rasped them off. So, all that went well and he was very sleepy.
Then after lunch I went out and I rode Eddie around the paddock. We just did little things. Like backing through a gate (halfway), sideways, and pretty much all the Level 1 safety stuff. I was very happy because everything was so light! His sideways was especially light and all I had to do was lean and he went sideways. Yay! He's finally out of his LBE phase! He's a LBI again!

Lea & Eddie

IT'S COLD!!!!

YUCK! Nasty ole weather! It's cold...... the end!
After Classes I went out and read with them for a while. I was going to groom Eddie, but it's just way too cold.
So, I'm hoping for better weather. Hopefully it will be warmer tomorrow!

Liberty, liberty and more liberty! Oh, then Online!

These past few days I've really been working on our liberty. Playing with what we're bad at. ;-)

So I just realized that he was uber bored, but prior to that he was being a big ole LBE!

I would send him on a circle and he would go cantering around. Then when I would ask him to come back in he would speed up, dig in and run away. Oh Boy! "Ha ha-ha-ha ha! Nope, nope, nope, nope!" I could almost hearing him saying. =-D So I would interrupt his pattern and run in front of him, so he would change directions and canter the other way. How Interesting! Then I would run backwards and he would run to me with a snaky head. Dominance much? Then we would go back online and fix things there. So I set up a bunch of obstacles in the round pen to play with in there. =-) Hopefully that will go better today.

Ooooh! I also got on bareback! Yay! All by myself! Yay! I'm so happy. I'm going to go ride later and play a little more. It's funny, I hurt in places I never thought I could hurt from mounting! My fingers are sore (who knows how!) and I fell like I pulled a muscle in my toe.

Here are some pics from the latest week!

Oh, and happy February!

~Lea & Eddie~