So Sore!

Hey everybody it's Lebtimus Prime here with another update for my new pretty blog! 

So I said on Thursday that there wouldn't be a new post until Monday or Thursday and as you can see it's Monday I blog to you.  Which means I got to go on a trail ride this morning.  But it wasn't what I really expected. 

When I got to the barn I went out by myself to retrieve Apollo from the field and everything was going fine from there.  I tied him to the hitching post while another guy put some flakes of hay down for both Apollo and his horse.  I went and got the grooming box from inside the barn and then went about my ritual of grooming my slowly roaning boy before getting the saddle and pad out of the barn.  Got him all tacked up without a fuss and then proceeded to lunge him out and slowly cinch him up hole by hole as I've been told to do.  Then on the third cinching a clump of snow fell from the roof over the corner of the arena and everything sort of went down hill from there.

My boy Apollo, spooked at the snow falling and continually spooked as the snow slowly fell clump by clump off the roof.  So I tried lunching him out a bit more before putting the headstall on him and leading him out of the barn.  But he was still a little tense.

Now we were leading out onto the trail, and I was told to hand Apollo's lead to another guy so on our first trail together we'd be ponied (I still had to be safe though!).  But Apollo began to be a little pushy and getting up in the other horse's butts so I switched mounts with the guy holding Apollo.  I didn't disagree because thinking about it, I'm not really a trail rider since I've done more work in an arena setting and on well schooled horses (Reminder: Apollo is going to be four in April; so first young horse I've ever owned).  So I got to ride a fairly tall draft type horse who was quite the sweetheart, while Apollo was rode by someone with more trail experience than I.  Maybe next time (or after a few more trails) I'll be able to sit on Apollo's back and ride him through the trails. 

After our hour ride out on the trail we returned to the barn where I lead Apollo back to the barn and we did do a few minutes of arena work (which felt way better on my legs as his barrel isn't as wide as the other horses barrel was ^.^').  I was fully prepared for a spook when the snow began to fall off the roof, but when it happened Apollo just looked up at the roof and kept walking as if it wasn't a bother XD. 

Well that's about it for today, I'm tired and sore so I'm going to go and relax.

~LEB~