Tuesday 2 weeks ago, Melissa relaxing on Ze, her first bareback ride! That weekend she got brave enough to climb on bareback in the middle of the pasture with the other horses with no halter or anything.
Last Tuesday we went to Redwood park for an evening ride, unfortunately my camera dosn't like taking pics in the evening up under the redwoods so they all came out really dark.
This weekend we spent most of the time starting to get ready for winter, repairing Black's shed and planning another for the other horses, we will be keeping the big girls and a few saddle horses up there so have to get the place set up for once it starts snowing. But we did get Hannah out and drove her some. She got a new harness that she got to try out and a new bit as she outgrew the other one, she is getting big!!!
We ground drove her 1/2 mile down to the neighbors so that she could spend some time on the road with the cars and other distractions. She did excellent, some horses in the field down the road got her attention but she only looked and kept right on walking like a pro. 
Now the cows that came up while we were visiting did get her a bit perplexed for a minute or so while she tried to decide what they were going to do, but she listened to Jarrett and didn't do anything bad, just paused to look at them, but after a reassuring word walked right by them. Though she did keep her eye on them just in case! I think we will start hooking her to a small stone boat or tire or something next time, she is more than ready for it. I would have this time except that I wanted her to get used to her new bit and harness first. Jarrett was comfortable enough with her to jump up and lay across her while she was loose in the pasture (she has never been backed). She just stood there, as we guessed she would! We still will not ride her for another year or two though, no reason to rush it. Holly is coming along nicely, I have been doing a lot of work calming her down about new things and desensitzing her, but still have not harnessed her. I think she may be ready next weekend, we will see. She is very smart and wants to please, but has some major trust issues. We are looking into hopefully borrowing another team to train her along side of, a well broke steady team would help her a lot.
Mayah is going to be a blast to train, she is extremly intelligent and picks thinks up very fast for a yearling, And she is HUGE!! But for the most part is going to spend the winter just growing, I've got enough work finishing the other two right now!
We rode from Melissa's new pasture tonight to scout the way to the river, tomorrow we are planning on riding that way again so I should get some pics from that.
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