6-14-11 The weather was amazing at 8am this morning. The humidity was gone! It was quite refreshing. I headed out to the barn, grabbed Lordy, fed him a cookie and headed to the round pen. We are focusing on liberty patterns in prep for liberty audition!
Our change of direction is really coming along. I am getting my timing and feel better and he is giving me more respect and fluidity!
Our challenge is the figure 8 around the cones. I find unless he really focuses on them he leaves the task on the send around the outer edge of one of the cones. Every time I found him disconnected from me and the pattern I placed him back on the line. We then did the pattern pretending not to have the line. Then I unhooked it and tried the figure 8 at liberty again. After 3-4 times he got it. He stayed connected to the cones!! I quit on that and my hope is that I am preparing for tomorrow.... knowing when to quit!
Overall we had a wonderful session with numerous dwell periods where I scratched his itchy and favorite spots. Having no bugs bothering us was a nice treat. We shall see how tomorrow's session goes..... until then..... XO
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