We'll Be Back After This Quick Break

The Amazing K (AKA my awesome trainer) has been away in Texas for the past couple weeks, and the ground has been too ouchy for Miss S. So we've taken yet another winter-imposed break. But, she's fat, fuzzy and quite at peace with getting lots of grooming and pets.

So we'll be back soon with more updates, pictures and videos of the lovely lady. But I have to share this because A) I cannot stop laughing, and B) this is where Stella will eventually be when it comes to trailering. She loads slowly but surely but tends to be explosive when coming out. This, however, is both awesome horse training and fantastic entertainment.

I had tears coming down my face from laughter...the mini moving at warp speed finally did me in.

Little Red Riding Mare

...can trot calmly on the end of a slack line!

Rome wasn't built in a day, and our relationship wasn't dissolved to bits in one day either. It's going to take some time to get this perfect, but as long as the end of each session is better than the beginning, I'm a happy lady.

This is about the midpoint of a 20 minute session. The head shaking is one of her tells, but that stopped pretty quickly. The jumping here was mild: a few minutes before she was doing airs above the ground. She's settling faster and faster, though, as we went from that to this:

What a good Mama! I asked for a whoa, she stopped, chewed thoughtfully and walked right up to me.

Thank you Alex, camera-man extraordinaire, for his wonderful videography.