Monday, February 4, 2008

once again... Monday, Febuary 4th

Like I said, I worked with Valley after I finished that last post. It wasn't for very long.
Valley was at the other side of the pasture (I call it the Meadow). So after I tied Ranger up, I went over there to catch Valley. I just sorta walked around, and she followed me, so after a few minutes, I put my Parelli halter and Clinton Anderson leadrope on her, and took her back to the otherside of the pasture, and to the gate. Chloe and Valley thought they were going to get fed again.
I took Valley out of a different gate, that was next to a rode (but of course a fence imbetween!). I stopped walking Valley, so she could get used to the sound of the cars going by. She was a little scared of them, but didn't go bizerk (sp?).
After a few minutes of that, I took her around the yard, and up to the side yard where the trampolines are. She didn't do so well there. She freaked out when I took her to one of the trampolines. I jumped up on it, and started to barely jump, Valley slowly came to it, and after a minute or so, she got mostly used to it.
Then I took her down to eat grass again, where I did the laying on her back again. I was going to desensitize her to the lead rope, but my head started hurting, and I didn't really fell like it anyways... so, well that's all.
TTYL

Love,
Sarah
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A canter is a cure for every evil.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Valley Likes:

  • Apples
  • Attention
  • Carrots
  • Celery
  • Company
  • Grain
  • Grass
  • Having her ears scratched
  • Hay
  • Swimming across the lake to visit her horsey neighbors
  • Wide open space to run and buck :)
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill

Valley Dislikes:

  • being locked in the back pasture
  • being away from my other horse, Mississippi
  • being ridden
  • Having to stand still
  • anything I want her to do
  • being ridden in a direction that is not towards the neighbors horses or the barn
  • The 'Jolly Ball' I bought her. Lol
  • Being tied up without food to eat
  • Having her hoofs picked (although, she cooperates)
  • lunging
  • Taking worm medicene
In riding a horse we borrow freedom.
~Helen Thomson

Things That Valley Does...

  • bites sometimes..
  • bucks
  • swims through lake to get out of pasture to visit horsey neighbors
  • chase my dog
  • anythin to be stubborn. She likes being stubborn.
  • Gallop and buck when I put her back in the pasture after she's been out for a while
  • Licks my hands
  • Tries to eat grass while I'm leading her
I bless the hoss from hoof to head -From head to hoof, and tale to mane! -I bless the hoss, as I have said,From head to hoof, and back again!
~James Whitcomb Riley

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. ~Beryl Markham

The horses paw and prance and neigh,Fillies and colts like kittens play,And dance and toss their rippled manesShining and soft as silken skeins;...~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Names I Call Valley (in order of what I call her most)

  • Valley
  • Vales
  • Silly Goose

Our first day!!

Our first day!!
Adam, Valley, Me