Jade's home and the weather was absolutely delightful (for a change). My excitement was mounting as the day wore
on. I hadn’t woken up freezing and I had
energy, energy to spare I believe. My
first two classes went well and I was feeling great! The great debate was, do I walk home for
lunch or do I drive home. I debated
until I didn’t have time to walk. Once
home I put the little dogs out… all except Joy.
She wouldn’t go. I took that
opportunity to love on her while my lunch was cooking and then I found her
pinch collar and decided to take her to back to the ranch with me.
Joy was a delight while she was there, endearing everyone
that pet her. The afternoon classes went
well and the weather was still great. It
was finally going to happen; I was finally going to get to go see Jade
again. It had been two been two days
since I had gotten to see her. I still
hadn’t had an opportunity to groom or ride her since I got her back. As I was grooming her, I felt like I was
trying to talk myself out of riding.
There were so many good reasons not to ride, especially when the new
bridle I had gotten for her was too big and I didn’t have a hole punch to make
it fit.
I knew I had to ride; something was dragging me to it. The day just wouldn’t be right if I didn’t
ride so I did a hopeful knot on the buckle to make it fit. When I got on, we couldn’t walk a straight
line. It was sad. We got a few big
circles in at the walk, I wasn’t planning on doing anything else, but I couldn’t
call it quits. We had to trot. Straight lines weren’t happening there
either. Circles again, big circles, and
some little ones too since big circles at times were a lot like trying to do
straight lines.
Then she did it, her characteristic moves. First she tried to goad me into using my leg
to push her over, Jade’s signature move to when she wants to canter. That didn’t work the way she wanted, so she
threw her shoulder forward to go into a canter.
After a few more of these moves, I couldn’t deny my princess. We cantered.
She did her best to make sure she had her leads and at one point she
even threw in a flying change so she wouldn’t have to break into a trot. She was so happy and I was in heaven,
almost. My core is weak, so I wasn’t
riding nearly as well as I should have been, but that aside, I was in
heaven. So was my girl.
I cut it short, Jade hasn’t been ridden in forever and she
hasn’t been on the right feed. I didn’t
want to risk an episode of tying up. She
was disappointed; it was hard for me not to be disappointed as well, but it was
okay. We’ll get to go out again. She’s right here nearby. Jade may not be in my back yard anymore, but
she is close enough, close enough that I’ll be able to ride her again as long
as we keep having these bright sunshiny days.
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