Still raining

I think there was a brief 30 minute period this morning when it wasn't raining...fortunately it started again as I went out to turn out and feed! Poor horses are looking miserable in the rain, in particular the ones without rain sheets. Fortunately for a few of them it was farrier day, so Shawn and Zander were able to dry off enough to warm up and get their sheets on. Rocky doesn't like  blankets so I opted to warm him up by riding him around the indoor bareback. My bum was soaked, but it is impressive how grippy wet horse is! And at least part of Rocky was warm and dry when he went back out into the rain..

For lessons we are working on evenness of strides and feeling the rythm needed to do a nice course. I am accomplishing this using a longer line than normal of trot poles, and then a line of low canter one strides, followed by a nice 4 stride that should use the same canter established in the one strides. Also doing some work on changes using a pole in the corner and a pole at the end.

Advice for the day is rubber boots. And if it stops raining before your lesson time...extra time to brush your horse as they will ALL roll once the rain stops!