Been Slackin

Hi, Been Slackin' on charting my progress, but I have made some and that's good.

Exy is really great about following me around and so we do patterns at liberty (she does almost better at liberty than on line--perhaps I'm so straight line with her on line?). She is a lot of fun, but does want to crowd me at times and for the first time EVER she blatently (it's been subtle up til now)challened my leadership and nipped me! This while walking SIDEWAYS through the gate and she reaches over and nips my sleeve. Well. Took me aback, I'll tell you and it made me re-assess my leadership--or perhaps I was pushing too hard? She's becoming more and more LB all the time (I was enjoying her being RBI to tell you the truth!). Sigh...gotta up the savvy. A stretch for me sometimes, unfortunately.

Now I have two LB's and Two RB's. I handle the RB's better I think. Gotta get myself to ramp it up a notch.

Been really tired and depressed lately since my Dad has a stroke on December 22, 2008 whilst on a cruise to New Zealand and Australia. He ended up in the hospital there and we were not sure he'd live, so I have put the horses on the back burner for now unfortunately. Have been out to love on them of course but no playing for a while now. Perhaps with the new year I'll feel more motivated and with the HD Video Camera that Santa brought me (to video my Parelli Levels!) things will look up. As I type this my Dad is still in NZ and is having trouble but at least he'll live. I'm so thankful and credit all the prayers from people all over the world as being a great help! THANKS! Thanks to God as well. He has spared my Dad in the face of a potentially fatal incident and I'm so grateful.

Starting to get cold now, too. I love cold weather (hate the blasting heat of our Ga summers).

Perhaps soon I'll be back to normal and will continue to play with my horses. Two of them are new to riding and I'm doing all I can to ready them and make it a non event. O'Rion has been ridden about 5 times and Exy I'm laying accross her back with no saddle and giving scratches and love.