After having been sick for a couple weeks, and really just not feeling up to par, I didn't spend much time with the horses. I pulled Tuck out yesterday, and boy did we have fun. He started off looking exactly how I felt, dragging his feet(and head) everywhere. I didn't ask for much, and was very slow but deliberate in whatever I did ask. Awhile later I asked for the circling game...and he certainly gave it to me!! He leaped in the air, and took off like a rocket! It was fabulous to see such exuberant energy! When I he was settled down, I asked him back in, and it hardly took a half of a breath before he came right to me. I loved it, and can't wait to get out there today.
A better a horse goes backwards and sideways, the better he does everything else. And I've been working on those a lot this last week, in hopes to improve our trailer loading...didn't think about how it might improve everything else as well! awesome.

I've been spending lots of time with Rascal too, and that little horse just makes me smile. I love seeing his true colors come out, and can't wait to continue developing his confidence. He's got a heart of gold.

This weeks thought -- Horses have a brain the size of a walnut, and a heart the size of a watermelon. To effect his heart would create greater results than anything else. We've all heard of horses who've run faster and jumped higher out of heart and desire.