weekend review
Nov. 4th, 2002 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joflasherFirst off, let me say the new tori album is very very good. I'm a little annoyed, though, because I don't know the words to the songs and I'm sitting here at work and the album is out in my car and I have little snatches of music going through my head with no words and I want to listen but I can't cause I don't know the songs and I think this sentence is plenty long enough now so I'll stop, no, really...
Friday the Boy and I threw a Halloween party. It came off pretty well, considering we never sent invites out until the beginning of last week. We suck at this planning thing. Boy did his yearly binge and purge on alcohol and spent most of Saturday recovering. Somebody (
Friday the Boy and I threw a Halloween party. It came off pretty well, considering we never sent invites out until the beginning of last week. We suck at this planning thing. Boy did his yearly binge and purge on alcohol and spent most of Saturday recovering. Somebody (
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First off, let me say the new tori album is very very good. I'm a little annoyed, though, because I don't know the words to the songs and I'm sitting here at work and the album is out in my car and I have little snatches of music going through my head with no words and I want to listen but I can't cause I don't know the songs and I think this sentence is plenty long enough now so I'll stop, no, really...
Friday the Boy and I threw a Halloween party. It came off pretty well, considering we never sent invites out until the beginning of last week. We suck at this planning thing. Boy did his yearly binge and purge on alcohol and spent most of Saturday recovering. Somebody (<lj-user = "nuns">!) left us a good dozen of full sized whatchamacolits (sp?). I have no clue what we're going to do with them all. I also have enough dips left over to drown a ferret in.
Saturday after the Boy recovered, S and A and the two of us went looking for a fish store the Boston Reefkeepers Club had told me about. It was pretty neat and I so want a big feather duster in our aquarium. We went into China Town afterwards, with me driving (blech!) and got food and dessert.
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Sunday we got up late and spent all day up at the farm. Boy and I took Majic and Kavort out. It took me half an hour to get Kavort ready since he was being a total nut case about the saddle but he calmed down after he was tacked up. Boy used a western saddle on Majic and had a much better ride. We spent most of our trail ride with both of them on loose reins. Kavort only ran away from a bug once, so I was being pretty trusting.
After we got back, Carol bullied us into riding Apache, the farm's 3 year old appy. He's normally really laid back and doesn't care who does what with him. I can't believe he's really an appy, most of them are vicious little buggers. Anyways, he's been ridden about once a week for the last 2 months but only with a halter and reins, no bridle. Boy got on him, Apache got all excited and wouldn't stop. Boy pointed him at the corner of the riding ring to slow him down, Apache went through the fence, at least the top part of it. I went and got a bridle and started teaching him breaks. He picked up turning off of the reins almost immediately but he doesn't want to stop with them. I was just doing light little half halts as my whoa command and he still almost managed to hit me in the head with his head and I was on his back. He almost reared on me once but then thought better of it. I should have thought to check if he was still teething. That might explain why he didn't like having the reins pulled back at all.
Spent a good hour working with Sage. Finally gave in and used a chain while lunging him. I don't like lunging with a chain since you don't get an instant release like you do with a lead rope chain. After watching Sage drag Boy around the ring and basically have no respect for either the line or the Boy, I put the chain on him. He didn't pull or fight hardly at all. Only once did he try to spin away from me and run off and he got pulled right around by the chain with almost no pressure from me. He sulked for a good 20 minutes after that. I then saddled and bridled him and worked on getting him to stand at the mounting block while I put my feet in the stirrup even though I wasn't getting on. Eventually he got bored enough with walking around the block to do it.
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We didn't mean to spend all day up at the farm but it was dark by the time we got home. Ordered indian food from our favorite restraunt and sat around watching movies. Good weekend but now I need another one to recover.
Friday the Boy and I threw a Halloween party. It came off pretty well, considering we never sent invites out until the beginning of last week. We suck at this planning thing. Boy did his yearly binge and purge on alcohol and spent most of Saturday recovering. Somebody (<lj-user = "nuns">!) left us a good dozen of full sized whatchamacolits (sp?). I have no clue what we're going to do with them all. I also have enough dips left over to drown a ferret in.
Saturday after the Boy recovered, S and A and the two of us went looking for a fish store the Boston Reefkeepers Club had told me about. It was pretty neat and I so want a big feather duster in our aquarium. We went into China Town afterwards, with me driving (blech!) and got food and dessert.
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Sunday we got up late and spent all day up at the farm. Boy and I took Majic and Kavort out. It took me half an hour to get Kavort ready since he was being a total nut case about the saddle but he calmed down after he was tacked up. Boy used a western saddle on Majic and had a much better ride. We spent most of our trail ride with both of them on loose reins. Kavort only ran away from a bug once, so I was being pretty trusting.
After we got back, Carol bullied us into riding Apache, the farm's 3 year old appy. He's normally really laid back and doesn't care who does what with him. I can't believe he's really an appy, most of them are vicious little buggers. Anyways, he's been ridden about once a week for the last 2 months but only with a halter and reins, no bridle. Boy got on him, Apache got all excited and wouldn't stop. Boy pointed him at the corner of the riding ring to slow him down, Apache went through the fence, at least the top part of it. I went and got a bridle and started teaching him breaks. He picked up turning off of the reins almost immediately but he doesn't want to stop with them. I was just doing light little half halts as my whoa command and he still almost managed to hit me in the head with his head and I was on his back. He almost reared on me once but then thought better of it. I should have thought to check if he was still teething. That might explain why he didn't like having the reins pulled back at all.
Spent a good hour working with Sage. Finally gave in and used a chain while lunging him. I don't like lunging with a chain since you don't get an instant release like you do with a lead rope chain. After watching Sage drag Boy around the ring and basically have no respect for either the line or the Boy, I put the chain on him. He didn't pull or fight hardly at all. Only once did he try to spin away from me and run off and he got pulled right around by the chain with almost no pressure from me. He sulked for a good 20 minutes after that. I then saddled and bridled him and worked on getting him to stand at the mounting block while I put my feet in the stirrup even though I wasn't getting on. Eventually he got bored enough with walking around the block to do it.
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We didn't mean to spend all day up at the farm but it was dark by the time we got home. Ordered indian food from our favorite restraunt and sat around watching movies. Good weekend but now I need another one to recover.
