2007-2010 January 12th

January 12, 2008

It is still very mild and consequently, very muddy out at the farm.  Dave and I went to Brubacher's first and picked up Onyx's saddle with the new girth extenders.  I worked with Phoenix to desensitize him to the running water / ditches on Settlement - we did the C-Pattern exercise and then rested where it was loudest.  We then tried Onyx's saddle on him - he was a little freaked by the motion of throwing it on his back, so I asked Meg to hold him while I desensitized to that, then Dave did the backing exercises with the saddle on so he got used to it.  Onyx does the Outback exercise really well!