Evening

I worked all day today and just got back inside from playing with the horses a bit. Since I haven't ridden or exercised anyone for the last couple of days, I decided to run them around a bit. They had fun with it, bucking and racing each other, and they found that when they came back to me they often got a piece of Cracklin Oat Bran. This was fun, and afterwards I threw out hay and sat with Woody and Teddy. Woody was nosing me a little bit and had a dominant face on slightly, so I used my bopping blocks and blocked that idea. He started backing up and kept turning his head to me (I was at his shoulder), but I just stayed with him and kept blocking him. Finally he stopped and had a huuuge yawning session that went on forever. I rubbed on him and pony and played Woody's tongue a bit, too. Teddy is really getting good and his Driving Game!! I was really impressed. He Porcupined back from his nose almost better than Woody, too! As I was leaving I did some Extreme Friendly with Woody in his zone 5, and I Friendlied Teddy with with the stick and string, too. I asked Woody to move away from me (I was in zone 3) by asking him Sideways while he was eating hay, and he sidestepped over so easily! I was happy with that because he showed he understands the Sideways at Liberty.
Anywho, tomorrow I am going to play some more and I might film my Level 2 Online Audition again then, too. I am going to try to mentally prepare to not become task oriented or audition orientated. A lady who writes a blog I follow, Michelle, wrote a really good post about learning from her Audition-taping to not put goals before principles. Here is the link to her blog...
http://naturalhorselover.blogspot.com/
It is a good reminder that the relationship needs to always come first, and that if it means sacrificing an Audition session, it needs to be done.
Also, I couldn't get the video loaded that I said was in my last post, so I will try that again later.
Until tomorrow!
~Eden