I finally met up with another boarder for a ride down the road this week.
Our ride started out a little slow. Both Steele and Cody were kind of stop and go because the neighbor had the airplane running getting ready to take off. After that they picked up the speed a little. We went down the drainway between the fields and a little bit in the empty bean field cuz I can't help but ride in an empty bean field, so much flat space. Had a long grass break in the usual spot and then back over to the tree for another grass break. Steele had been giving hints the whole ride that he really wanted to start acting like an idiot and after the tree there was a car parked on the side of the road from some farmers checking crops. He decided to shy at that and then there was no going back. He'd freak out, Cody would freak out, Steele would freak out again, Cody again, they were just feeding off each other. By the time we got to the town hall they were both pretty worked up. Steele even kicked Cody (he had squealed at him a couple times prior). Luckily they calmed down a bit and after one more little burst of exciting Cody was back to a walk even with all the traffic, it was like a main thoroughfare through there today.
I had him give me a left lead canter and a right lead canter in the arena before I called it a day. Left lead took two tries but he did get it fairly easily, of course it was the fastest canter ever. He was a sweaty mess after all the freaking out down the road.
So the ride started out really nice and ended up a little exciting.
