Lunch at the barn

Another lunchtime trip to the barn. Cody was on the far end of the pasture again. Axel was waiting at the water though. Heh. I really should go out there and groom him up and give him some attention, poor guy. Jesse is back out with the boys so that was nice to see. I rode around the arena for a bit. I think one of my problems is that I can't commit to working on one thing at a time. I started working on trotting and staying on the rail and staying in the trot and then we'd canter so I thought maybe I'd work on that. Heh. We did get the left lead a few times, I think he dropped out of if a couple times though, it was hard to tell. But we ended with a left lead canter, once he picked it up I let him have his head and tried to just keep him up with my legs. It still feels really wild but I suppose we work on getting the lead consistently first then we work on easing it up a bit. I was daring so I jumped on bareback from the picnic table and rode him down to the first gate. I didn't try opening the gate while mounted, that just wasn't going to happen with that gate I don't think. Not without a lot more work on sidepassing and the like.