Gloomy Day = Frisky Horses

Since it rained all day Saturday I hadn't made it out to the barn since Thursday. Cody was still wearing his fly mask but Axel had figured out how to get his off without un-vecroing it. He kindly put it in the mud and probably stepped on it. Such a nice horse. I hung both of them up on the fence. It's supposed to rain again tomorrow so Cody should be okay as far as the sun goes. Hopefully the rain will clean off the mud a bit.

It was pretty chilly out today and both horses were feeling a little frisky. I just groomed Cody and did some ground work. I'm doing my best to not ride him til after his adjustment on Friday. He was a little uncooperative and didn't want to finish a circle when it meant facing away from the gate. Though he was switching directions with energy today which doesn't happen often lately. There's a few horses in the middle paddock right now to give the pasture a chance to grow so Cody is pretty happy to have new friends to talk to.

Axel was a handful today as well and he's probably going to be feeling it tomorrow. He trotted on the lunge line like a tiger was chasing him. Instead of cantering he put on a good show imitating a saddle bronc. He's doing pretty okay remembering how to do the turns from the ground. Still can't get him to bend, I need to spend a lot more time just spinning around til he gets it but that's a lot of spinning. He did pretty well under saddle considering his bronc impression. We worked on a walk on a loose rein, then some corner circles and some serpentines, and then we worked on some halts. He's been yanking the reins when he halts so we played with that a bit before calling it a day. The good news is that he's been backing out of the big barn door really well lately. We'll have to start working through a smaller area.