Always Playing Catch Up

We finally shot the gun off Booker's back.  Worked in the arena for a while and shot from the ground and next to him and finally got on and shot from his back.  He actually did best under saddle than he did on the ground.  Next up is more work with the 22 and starting work with a 38 half and full load.  We figure if we keep doing the 22 a few times each time we work with him that should keep him fresh all winter while we work him up to 45s.

I did make it out another time in the past couple weeks and do some ground work.  Did some makeshift versions of the Parelli friendly game, circle game, and squeeze game.  Then we spent quite a bit of time working on backing out the barn door and down the step, a little make shift trailer unloading practice really.  He gets a little nervous backing out so we'll keep working on that when we can.

Pulled his shoes last week so we'll see how he's feeling as far as arena riding goes.  We don't want to do too many sharp circles but now that it's almost winter we're going to be confined to the arena with not much room for straight work.