Last time Mom came out I was a very very naughty pony! I keep telling her that my great great great grandma won the Russian Oaks and placed second in the Russian Derby - I just want to run!!! Maybe one day she'll take me to a race track and let me go! Anyway, I wanted to run and Mom said no. So I ran anyway and she fell off again. :| Then she didn't come out for a week. I sort of feel bad, so I came trotting up to her the second I saw her in the pasture - and she had some treats for me!!! Maybe Mom will just let me be a really big lap horse...
Podruga
Priboj x Dikarka
We did some really really excellent showmanship today though, I really like to show off after I've had some time off. Today's the first day I really seemed to understand that Mom stepping into my bubble means back off! Which translated into an AWESOME 360!
While Mom didn't get on today she did apparently have other sinister plans in mind and found a squirt bottle! D: How could she?!?!?! Mom must seriously spend time thinking of scary monsters to introduce me to. Although, I have to admit, after about a half hour of running for my life, the cold water actually felt kind of nice! And I have to give Mom a gold star, she's learned how to hold objects like they aren't terrifying!
P.s. Mom told me today she thinks I'm getting fat! How rude!
Notes from Mo's Mom: Mo and I have had a few setbacks lately, his bolting seems to be becoming a habit and I just don't have the experience and presence of mind to successfully pull a one-reined stop every time it happens. I'm working on it - it's just extremely frustrating to have all these ideas of where I want to be and where I wanted to be at this point in time and still find myself very far behind. It's so easy to let it get to my head and overwhelm me - and then I don't go to the barn, then Mo gets worse because he hasn't had to focus in over a week, and then we have a wreck and then I go out even less. I get too far inside my own head sometimes.
So. I can either sit at home and hide from it, or I can start making steps to change how it is. So I present to you:
The Mojito Battle Plan:
1) Go out atleast 3x a week. I'm serious about this one. I'm just not going to make ANY progress if I keep hiding from it. Friends, anyone who knows me, call me out on this. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. If you see me, ask me if I went to the barn yet. Make me feel like an idiot if I haven't gone. Just go. Even if it's just to groom him and do showmanship or whatever. Today I worked on my running braid. It's an improvement over not going.
2) Fight negative thoughts. My biggest problem is I keep thinking of where I think we should be, and where I want to be instead of realizing how much progress we've made. Every day that I do not want to go the barn to avoid Mojito (wow that sounds weird), I will make a list of 5 positive things Mo and I have accomplished or made progress on.
3) Western Saddle. I love my english saddle. I'm much more comfortable and able to move around in it. Unfortunately, all this movement is not so helpful when I'm trying to cling on for the life of me as Mo spins in a 15 foot circle at a gallop. Western saddle it is. Hope it still fits him!
