One of the best things about working with your horse (who started off a hot “its Spring” teenager of a boss herd mare) is that you have to let everything else go, there is no room in your mind, or your body or your emotions for anything but this moment, this horse, this very second in time..

Its a dance of the very best kind, the one where you can not just see but you can feel the step that is coming. Brandy has been a blessing in so many ways, being able to step out of my life and just be, is just one of them.

On sunday, we had a tie out session while the cow got locked up and we worked in the barn, it was a good lession in and of itself, but Brandy has been bored, its spring, its starting to warm and she is full of P&V, and I am finding myself needing to book time in for her daily, as with spring on the way, I am in spring mode..

She herded the piglet herd yesterday, which is just funny really, but none the less other then Dh and I, every other critter on the pasture/big barns take their lead from her and she has been letting it go to her head 🙂

I think the thing I find the most amazing, is that after she get out of reactive, pushy girl mode and settles into working girl mode, she will flip a switch and in a way, its like I have a different horse, its amazing for me to watch, I can see it in parts of her body, just like I can see when she is gearing up the other way..

Time to get back into the habit of doing a morning working and a later afternoon working, you see, not only is riding season breathing down our necks but I have something I am aiming towards, I don’t know if I will be taking Brandy on this event or not, but I would like to see if its possable to maybe make that happen.

I am planning on going to a girls only weekend ride/camp out, and I am so excited about it, I am working hard to lose a bit more weight, getting both myself and Brandy into gear, gotta get the gear so that Dh can milk the cow willl I am gone overnight..

Its local, so it will be a tack up and head out for a couple hours ride in private land and then set up camp and overnight and then repeat on the way back the next day.. I will admit that I am so thrilled at the idea of getting to do this..

Its my planned stay-cation  or is that horse-cation!