WooHoo! Energy!

Eddie had a lot of energy today! He had a lot of 0-60 moments!
So we played with the circling game and a TON of other things! Let's see... we did the sideways game towards, away, over barrels, trotting away, trotting towards, towards over a barrel and sideways without a fence to different obstacles! Wowie!
Then we did zone 5 driving with one rein and did turns to the left and right with only one rein on one side. It was really cool, he turned away from the rein with just my body asking him to. Also with driving and we did the spin and driving to different logs and having him straddle them/jump them.
Let's see... circling game! We did a lot of traveling circles and jumping over obstacles at the end of the 45. That was pretty hard, but I do believe it will get easier. He did really well with it though! Oh! And this is for Mirka, *gets excited* she had commented on my video on youtube that Eddie's lead changes were just his forefeet changing leads and not his hind feet. But we did a few more and he did both hind and front feet flying changes!!!! And he did it twice!!!! I kind of bumped his ribs out as he was leaving and that REALLY helped!!! It's awesome, just the slightest movement of my body can have him do a flying change. SWEET!!!! I LOVE PARELLI!!!! I also watched our October DVD and at the beginning Pat talked about the water ski/ hovercraft or something like that, anyway it doesn't matter... I had the principle in the back of my mind the whole time and it helped tremendously! The principle was, to get all the beginning things out of the way (once you're ready of course) (the beginning things are Levels 1-3) then once you get to level 4 you ask for engagement. Things get light for you and your horse just offers everything. I think now that we have it on the ground we can get it on his back either this winter or next year. Usually it takes longer for us in freestyle/finesse. =-) It's all me, I need to work on my savvy/precision in level 3. All in good time. =-)

Well that's what I did today! Tomorrow we're putting in our fence and then the horses will be safe if they ever get out. Wish us luck tomorrow, it's going to be really busy/tiring.

Lea & Eddie

Acts 4:19
19 But Peter and John answered and said to them (the priests), “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.

Busy Day!

Well today was full of parelli doings! Well, so was yesterday, I'll blog about that later. First I talked to Keri for a good hour on IM. Then I made videos for both Hannah and Blaze and Keri and Prince.
I posted them below. =-)
Then I went out and I played with Eddie!
We did some circling game to get rid of some of his energy and some bullseye to get his mind connected and his body flexing. Then we trotted sideways a little bit, and I sent him to different obstacles and had him straddle them/jump them. I'll post pictures in a bit! I hopped on with the savvy string as a rein and stood on the pedestal. It was fun!!
I played with Diesel too!! He is SO smart! We did some circling game and he was like, "yeah, and what is the point of this?!" So I have to do my homework on mules. ;-) Then we did some weave and he was so light! I just moved my ribs and he would scootch over.

Oh yeah! Our September DVD came yesteryday, so I'm going to watch it tomorrow and learn all about finesse! Plus our Audio CD came on the 8 responsibilities of horses and humans, so I'm going to put it on my ipod and listen to it while I do stalls in the morning. =-)
 Here are the videos!











Hannah made me a video, THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH HANNAH! I love it!!! You're truly an amazing friend. Love you!






~Lea & Eddie~

I PASSED!

YIPPEEE!!!!!!!!!!! I HEARD BACK AND I PASSED MY LEVEL 3 ONLINE WITH A LEVEL 3+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One step towards a green string!
She said that one thing I need to work on, is: ask for more - think about how each thing you are asking for would create athleticism (mind, flexion, weight, feet...) Use all the space on the 45.

AWESOME!
And I had filmed this before my lesson, so I didn't have some of the savvy arrows I have now. Real refinement of Level 3. =-)
I'M SO HAPPY!






Lea & Eddie

My new video!

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~Lea & Eddie~

Three - Zero - Two

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302!
Yup, this is my three-hundred and second blog post! WOW! How time has flown by.

Anyway,
Today was AMAZING!
It was so nice to play with Eddie when my sister and Scout were out. I love having company! Of course there's a time I just want it to be Eddie and I, but I think I was over-processing/analyzing everything when it was just me and him. So I showed my sister how to do zone 5 driving today! Eddie and I warmed up and he was amazing! SO LIGHT! A dance? Some might say so. It was a... barn dance. Not all the way there, but close enough!
We did some sending from zone 5 to different obstacles, jumped some things, (this is without long reins) Oh, and I switched to the 45. I LOVE that thing! I hate the 22 now, give me the long one! lol!
We played with some circling and bullseye too. He SO gets it now! All I have to do is bend my ribs slightly and lower my head and he does! YIPPEE!
Then we went to long reins to show my sister how to do it. He did awesome!!!!! We trotted around, jumped the log, did some slow change of directions circling game and bullseye. Yes, we did the bullseye pattern with long reins! It was so neat! He collected. YIPPEE!!!!!!!!
Here are some pictures:

Then we did the weave with the long reins and he did it beautifully! Yay!!!!

~ Lea & Eddie ~

Lookin' Alive in Zone Five

Today Eddie and I played in the pasture! First we did some advanced sideways and he was so sleepy again! Hmm... I wonder why? I really don't know. Oh well, maybe I was boring? So then to liven things up a little we did some point to point from 30+ feet away. Our quality is... impectable! I always use eyes, belly button, leg, rope, stick and it has helped SO much! It was really hard to break my habit of always doing something before he does something, but it has totally changed now. Anyway, I was trying to figure out the sorce of his laziness, but then I thought, "Hey, we all have days when we're sleepy! He does too!" So then we just did some little things from zone 5. We did fast walks and slow walks and some more point to point with the long reins.
Hopefully tomorrow he will be more awake! =-) Well... actually they do say youre horse is your mirror and I have been quite tired lately since we've been doing so much around the farm. Maybe he's just mirroring me? We DID play with that yesterday! lol!
Anywho,
Savvy out!
Oh! There's a new Parelli.com! They updated it! Take a minute to check it out!
http://www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com/

~Lea & Eddie~

James 1:2-3
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

Our Quest for Quality

Yesterday I had one of the best session with Eddie. He was so sleepy, but he put a lot of effort into playing with me.
I was so proud of him!
I took off my yucky muck boots and my socks and (it wasn't that cold out) and he did a ton of 'mirror me.' Lately we've been practicing swaying back and forth and he did it perfectly yesterday!!! He didn't take any steps and all I had to do was lean and he would lean. I'm SO excited and proud of him. He is one amazing horse!
Then we decided to play with some sideways. He didn't have to move his feet a whole lot, but he used his mind instead. hehe, I was on a 22 foot line and I hated it! I think he did too! We've been playing with the 45 foot line for a few weeks now and that's all I want to use now! I sent him over the log and I had to run to catch up because I didn't have that extra 23 feet of rope! But once he straddled the log, I had him sideways off of it while I was in zone 1, 22 feet away. I didn't have a stick. I just sidewaysed and he sidewaysed. There wasn't even a phase 2. It was just my body.
AMAZING!
Then I hopped on after I tied the 22 into a hackamore and we did some point to point. It was really fun!
I'm so excited with how amazing our online has gotten. I think once we pick liberty back up again it's going to be good too. I haven't played at liberty with him for a week or so. But we're going to do it in the pasture now.

I never thought I would be able to say this... But we are officially playing in all four savvies in different Levels.

Online - Level 4
Liberty - Level 3/4
Freestyle - Level 3
Finesse Level 2/3

YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~Lea & Eddie~

2 Corinithians 3:4-6
4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Video of our Cavaletties!

Here's the video of our cavaletti time yesterday!!!

P.S. Watch the change from the beginning to the end! It's incredible!

Freeeeeeestyle!

Today it was SO nice outside! The sun was shining and it's not too cold out.

So we started with Online and we played with the circling game, weave, sideways and cavaletties. He did great with the circling game. He was relaxed/head down and flexed at the walk, trot and canter. It was really cool to go up on our transitions and keep the quality there. Then we did some long range, far away, sideways. My phases were so light and he did exactly what I did in my body.
Weave was next, and it has gotten incredibly light!!! I didn't do anything but move my ribs. I think we can check that off! =-D
We did some cavaletties next just to get him stretching more. I got some videos, so I'll see if I can upload them quick. =-)

FREESTYLE was next!!!! I hopped on with the finesse reins, and grabbed a helmet and we were off! We practiced the weave and I'm telling you.... Before you do it on their back, do it on the ground! Because it was SO SO SO light!!! I moved my ribs and my leg and he moved right over. I probably wouldn't have even needed reins! Then we spent the rest of our 30 minute session doing impulsion programs and a tiny bit of collection. It was great!!

I love my boy ~     =-)

Lea & Eddie


Ephesians 6:11
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.