Human came and practiced balancing on my back last night. She had me go along at my slow trot she calls a jog and I guess I must have done everything really well because after practicing for a bit, she yelled WOOHOO, gave me a big hug, and jumped off my back and walked me around by hand to cool down...

I like it when Human is happy with our practice sessions because it means we don't have to work as long or as hard, now if I could just convice her to feed me apples every time we're done working my life would be Suuuuweeeeetttt!

She CAME!

Boy I had a good weekend... First Grandma came! She gave me a carrot and told me I'm one cool dude... I love Grandma, she's so nice and never makes me practice balancing her on my back!

Then I got to have Saturday to myself and had great time mucking about in the muddy part of the turnout area! It was cool but Human grumbled on Sunday that I was a MESS to clean up.. Silly Human, doesn't she know that mud is good for the hair and skin?

Human did make me practice balancing her on my back but she made it fun, we got to practice some things she calls 'moves' like rollbacks... I like those rollback things, they're a lot of fun, unfortunately she won't let me do them and then run like I'd like to do, I have to do them and walk calmly, BORING...

After we were done, Human gave me a nice massage and all in all I had a good weekend!

Back To Work.

Well dudes, I had a few days off while Trainer is on Vacation but the past 3 days Human has been coming down to make me practice balancing her on my back.

All in all, while she does make me work, it's actually been a decent time as she generally doesn't make me work as hard as Trainer does and tonight after work, Human spent some time with the liniment bottle massaging my back and legs, ahhhhhhhhhhh.... that feels SO nice when she takes the time to do it.

So while vacation is over, I have to admit I kind of like work with Human along for the ride (pun intended dudes!).

Peace Dudes!

Humans are from Venus, Geldings are from Mars

I kind of think Human may be mad at me. Yesterday she came down to practice me balancing her on my back (she calls it riding, I call it work, which is, a four letter word, sigh).

Things were going OK on Friday although I was noticing a lot of Ghosts in various corners of the arena, I guess they were out in full force for Halloween. Human kind of got mad at me about the 5th time I spooked at a Ghost she can't see. She told me "QUIT" in her annoyed voice. Well that hurt my feelings.

How can I be held responsible for not liking Ghosts? It is NOT my fault she's blind to them and it is NOT my fault that she won't listen to me when I try to tell her with my body language getting tense that the ghosts are indeed real and present.

We practiced loping but I was tense and frustrated and upset that she'd dared to yell at me over ghosts, I mean gee, EXCCCCUUUUUSEEEEE ME for finding Ghosts to be a bit unsettling. Like there is NOTHING in the universe that spooks her?

We did not have the most fun on our 'ride' yesterday and today I noticed Human did NOT come to practice 'riding' me, Trainer did instead. Trainer said I was a good boy, so that was nice, but now I'm worried Human is still upset with me.

I actually really like Human when she's not being mean about ghosts, so I hope she's not going to stay away. Trainer said Human will come play with me tomorrow and also practice me balancing her on her back. Maybe I'll try doing things Human's way and not acting afraid of the Ghosts that live in the arena... Just to get Human happy again, they're such emotional creatures these humans of ours.