Week 30

Tuesday: 3 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Rode Hercules, Apple, Hollywood, and Buster. Then 2 hours at Laughing Buck Farm. Worked with Lady and gave a lesson on Cliff.

Wednesday: 5 hours at Quick Performance horses. Did stalls, watered, and rode 2 horses.

Thursday: 3 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Rode Buster and Apple, did stalls, and round penned Hercules.

Friday: 2 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Rode Mercedes, fed, and lunged Buster.

On Mercedes. (Photo credit goes to Sunnyluck Farms)

Links:
Sunnyluck Farms Website
Laughing Buck Farm Website
Laughing Buck Farm Facebook

Week 29

Tuesday: 3 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Saddled horses, round penned Mercedes with her head tied and then rode her a little bit, rode Apple, and rode Buster. Then 3 hours at Laughing Buck Farm. Gave a short lesson on Cliff, who wasn't feeling well, and coliced, so I stayed with him while the vet worked on him.

Baby slide tracks by Buster (with no sliders on!)

Wednesday: 4 hours at Quick Performance Horses. Did stalls, turned out horses, round penned 4 horses and rode 2. Then 1 hour at Laughing Buck Farm giving Clifford his grain and sand clear.

Thursday: 2 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Rode down the road on Buster.

Friday: 2 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Rode Hercules and Mercedes.

Links:
Sunnyluck Farms Website
Laughing Buck Farm Website
Laughing Buck Farm Facebook

Week 28

Monday: 3 hours at Schwartzenberger Equine. I went down to talk to Steve about possibly interning there this winter, and got a tour of the barn and stayed and watched them ride for an hour or so.

Tuesday: 3 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Rode Mercedes and worked on a lot of bending and giving to the bit, and then rode Buster.

Wednesday: 1 hour at Quick Performance horses. I went down to talk about interning there once or twice a week, and met with them, and rode one of their horses a little bit. Then 1 hour at Laughing Buck Farm. Round penned Lady with her head tied to try and help her pick up her bad lead. She picked it up about half of the time in the round pen, but when I got on her again to try in the saddle in the arena, she still didn't pick it up. I'm going to tie her head again on Sunday.

Thursday: 2 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Rode Mercedes working on bending some more, and rode Buster.

Best view in town.

Friday: 2 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Braided and blanketed DG, round penned Hercules, round penned and braided Apple, and lunged and braided Buster.

Evening at the barn, Denzel always wants to say Hi :)

Saturday: 2 hours at Quick Performance Horses. Watched a young horse being round penned, and then rode a 3 year old and gave him a bath.

Sunday: 2 hours at Laughing Buck Farm. Did stalls and fed.

Laughing Buck Farm Website
Laughing Buck Farm Facebook
Sunnyluck Farms Website
Sunnyluck Farms Facebook

Week 27

Tuesday: 3 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Rode Hollywood for his sale video, and rode Apple, and then helped from the ground with putting the first real ride on Fiona. Then at Laughing Buck Farm for 2 hours, gave mini pony lessons to preschoolers, and then rode Lady for an hour working on picking up her bad lead.

Thursday: 2 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Round penned Hercules and Buster, and rode Hollywood. It was pretty chilly out, so they all had a little spring to their steps :)

Hercules in the round pen 

Friday: 1 hour at Sunnyluck Farms. Rode Buster down the road.

Sunday: 2 hours at Laughing Buck Farm. Gave a lesson on Clifford, and rode Lady, again working on picking up her bad lead, and walk to lope transitions.

Picture of me messing around on Lady from last week :)

Links:
Sunnyluck Farms Website
Sunnyluck Farms Facebook
Laughing Buck Farm Website
Laughing Buck Farm Facebook

Week 26

Tuesday: Three hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Rode Buster, round penned and rode Mercedes, and round penned Fiona. Then 2 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Gave a lesson on Lady and worked with Lady and Sassy with desensitizing to Halloween costumes. Also spent 1 hour emailing different reining barns about possibly interning or just helping around the barn and sitting in on training.

Buster trying to drink my coffee

Mercedes in the round pen before riding

Fiona in the round pen

Bella learning how to collect Lady

Lady as a witch :)

WOAH

Thursday: At Sunnyluck Farms for an hour. Round penned Chanel, Buster, and Hercules. Then at Laughing Buck Farm for an hour to give a lesson on Cliff.

Saturday: Rode Cliff for an hour. He's pretty out of shape muscle wise since he's only been giving beginning lessons lately, so I worked on collecting him a lot, and we loped for a while.

Asking for a baby turnaround

**Photos of me on Buster belong to Sunnyluck Farms**
Links:
Sunnyluck Farms Website
Sunnyluck Farms Facebook
Laughing Buck Farms Website
Laughing Buck Farms Facebook

Week 25

Monday: 2 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Watched Fiona being worked from the ground, fed, and rode Buster.

Buster 

Tuesday: 3 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Fed, cleaned stalls, round penned Mercedes, rode DG, and rode Buster. Then 2 hours at Laughing Buck Farm. Worked with the ponies and gave a lesson on Cliff.

Cliff with the tiny saddle 

Thursday: 3 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Fed, rode DG, rode Hercules, and round penned Fiona.

Friday: 3 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Rode DG and Hercules and lunged Buster for a few minutes.

Buster doesn't want to take his blanket off as long as he doesn't get sweaty :)

Saturday: Rode with a friend for two hours. Got to ride her cutting horse, and her BLM mustang. It was super interesting to get to see the differences and similarities of how cutting horses are trained versus reining horses, since I'm looking to do an internship with a cutting horse trainer in the future.

Links:
Sunnyluck Farms Facebook
Sunnyluck Farms Website
Laughing Buck Farms Facebook
Laughing Buck Farms Website

Week 24

Tuesday: 3 hours at Sunnyluck Farms. Fed and cleaned stalls, and then rode my new leased horse, Buster. Then round penned DG and Hercules with their heads tied, and then rode Apple. Then spent 2 hours at Laughing Buck Farm. Worked with the ponies, and gave the little girl who is now leasing Clifford a lesson.

Buster 

Hercules learning to give to the bit. We do this with their heads tied with the reins so that it's a clear message that giving to the pressure of the bit releases it. It's much better than trying to teach it on their backs which would get VERY tiring.

Hercules giving to the bit nicely. Notice the slack in the rein.

Friday: Worked on my resume and references for an hour. I was sick Thursday and Friday so I did not get out to the barn.


Sunnyluck Farms Facebook
Sunnyluck Farms Website
Laughing Buck Farm Facebook
Laughing Buck Farm Website