When life gives you ice, just skate

By the end of last year Savvy's training was really coming along. We had W/T/C installed and even started working on walk to canter transitions and it felt like we moved from 'green horse' to 'just about broke'.

Enter winter and very little opportunity to keep that ball rolling and I am a few steps back. I have a feeling we will catch up quickly though, once I am able to ride more than once a week. At the moment I have a wiggly out-of-shape pony who desperately wants the feral life. C'est la vie!

Pro style canter transitions: We know we are fancy.

No jumping happened this past lesson, but we dug in to some very good exercises that really got me paying attention to all the body parts and settled Savvy into a very good working forward mind. We used four poles on a circle and changed up our target on each pole while also changing up what I was doing, i.e. posting to sitting to two-point.

We finished on canter work that was far less dramatic than last week's lesson (just a few funny hops here and there and virtually no ninja kicks fortunately) and left the lesson exhausted (both of us) and super pleased with all of it.

Well deserved roll for sweaty pony :)

My farm has been pretty much a skating rink since February, but warmer temps are in the forecast so I am starting to get hopeful of being able to ride at home again!

My riding arena right now. Kids are the best at making lemonade from lemons!

There is just so much to look forward to this year. I have a jump clinic April 9, then my first show of the year on April 22, and the following month is an eventing clinic.
I'm starting to get so excited!