Draft horses in Training!

We have been busy again. Monday we scouted the way to the river, Tuesday we rode on the river bar, and Wednesday we rode at the park... I got pics on Tuesday:

On the way to the River
Old Serina happy to get out! She will be going out to lease with Sugar in another week to teach some people how to ride so I was giving her a brush up. She still loves to go even at 23!


Bailey wants to play in the water, but dad says it's too cold!

Serina had to get her mohawk in the pic...


Then this weekend was wonderful! I'm still smiling!

Well, first Jarrett's brother showed up from Redding on Friday needing a b-day present for his wife, who's b-day was the next day... So we busted out this purse in about 3 hours. It came out really neat though, I love the eyes!

So then Saturday we set to work and built a small stone boat for Hannah:

She dosn't mind it in the least while it is back there sitting still...

So we went for a ride!

She did perfect!

At first she had trouble getting the weight started from a standstill so we would let her get the sled moving and then step on, but after a bit she learned to lean into it and get it sliding with the weight.

Almost done... We kept it short so she wouldn't get too tired, it was a lot for her to drag by herself. But it told us she is ready for a wheeled cart, so we will get that finished for this weekend hopefully!! 

Then Sunday we had another stellar day, Holly got her first lesson in ground driving! It has been a long time coming and I have done a ton of work with her. She has gone to trying to take off into the next county if you put our hand in the air or pat her neck to being pretty darn trustful. She still has a lot of work to go but did awsome with the ground driving!

Trying to see where the world behind her went once she got her blinders on! 

And off to work! She has never had a bit or bridle on as far as I know, she certinally didn't act like she had the way she was chewing on the bit, but she picked it up quickly. She had a few delimas from time to time but she didn't panic and let me help her, so I was quite impressed. The worst she did was back up for about 50', but we worked that out and she was steering almost perfectly by the end of the lesson, even when a good 1/4 mile from the other horses.

I don't know if this will show up, I know it's blurry, but the full moon was just setting over the pasture and the horses coming up to say bye as I left this morning to go back to work. I hate leaving...