Mid week rides last week were nice. Wednesday went by myself on the "Mario ride". There are plenty of us that have things on the trail named after us-it could be a section of the trail, a rock, a tree-but not many of us have a whole ride named after us. Anyway, Mario really likes this particular ride and often goes on it...hence the name. Thursday went with a friend and wandered around. We did some trail exploring. One of the "explores" turned out to be nothing. The other one was good-it lead from one trail to another trail. Zoe does good with exploring in the forest. I'm not so sure she would do so good in an unfamiliar place, I think she would probably be more wary.
No weekend rides last weekend.
Practicing for the upcoming competition. The ball seems to be no problem. I can ride Zoe up to it, push it around, she doesn't care. The last time we practiced the wind was up so the ball "wandered" around the arena a bit. She still didn't care. Neither did Sky. My ball has a slow leak-maybe. Today I took it home and used the compressor to blow it back up, put water on it to try and find the hole(s), but no holes. Maybe I just didn't have the fill up hole shut up completely. So now it's home I will watch it again and see what happens.
Today we went back to shooting the pellet gun. It has been a few weeks since we have done this but both horses were fine with it. So today we practiced walking and shooting at the same time. I wasn't sure if "moving" feet would give way to "bolting or running" feet. But both horses did fine. Next time we will practice with a sound happening after the shooting sound, maybe a ballon will pop after the shot. I think they will do fine.
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