withdrawal

I'm starting to feel the effects of no riding withdrawal.

I dreamt about riding last night. How sad.

In other horsie news, I waas emailed a copy of a really cool exercise to try on the barrel pattern. I was watching our runs from State Finals (ugh.) and I've noticed we're cutting off the pocket on the backside. Bubba needs a little more pocket than I'm giving him to get that big body collected and turned around. I posted about this on Barrel Horse World and someone suggested I try the Connie Combs Square Exercise. It's supposed to help teach a horse to not turn early and to stand up and use their balance.

I'll try anything once.

Hopefully, if all goes well tonight, I can come home and ride some. We REALLY need it. There's a barrel race not 5 miles from home on Saturday (anybody in the area: www.eviltwinfarms.com) that I'd like to go to and try out my pocket theory. But, the rule is, if he doesn't get rode at least the week before, we don't go. So I need to ride.

Cross your fingers that it all the stars align today and I get to ride.

In weather news... the high for Friday is below 95! It's barely breaking the 90s! That is the excitement of the neighborhood right now, that we won't fry to death all weekend. We'll just slowly burn.

Welcome to Florida in the summer time.