No rain yet! Guess we have stopped getting it. I am now watering the big oak trees in the pasture. Without trees, this little 5 acres would be a wasteland! Funny the difference shade makes to a pasture.
We have had a very busy week. We have given a couple of Seminars to an Eventing barn, given a ground clinic to a group of people, we have almost finished getting ready for our 3 day Trail Clinic this weekend and we have done some re-organizing of our business. Very busy time for us.
Folks from the Eventing barn watching Jere doing the “Scary Jere” look.
The Seminars were a big success. We went to a barn in Boerne, TX and showed them just what Natural Horsemanship is and how it can work on their horses. We also showed them a lot of how the ground work works with the riding. The people at the barn were really fun and had good questions. We will be going back there for some lessons etc.
We are going to be working up a Seminar Program we can give to different barns that don’t know what Natural Horsemanship is all about. It will include What is Natural Horsemanship, How do you read a horse’s personality, and how does the ground work fit with your riding? We will give a 3 hour program and the barn will provide several problem horses. If you know of anyone who would be interested, tell me and I will contact them.
The 3 Day Trail Clinic is almost upon us. But we are ready. Jere is making our bridge this morning. We will be using the ACTHA list for obstacles and we have chosen 6 that they have in their rides. Go to the ACTHA page and open the rides tab. Then on that, there is an obstacles listing. It tells how they judge the obstacle and how the rider and horse should look.
We have been having a discussion among ourselves that is very interesting. In Natural Horsemanship we have 4 phases of getting a horse to do what we want. We also always say, we do not use “make” or force ways. But if we have to go to Phase 4 and smack, does the horse have any other choice than to do it. Is he not forced? This is a very important and interesting question, I think. Discuss it with your friends and get back to us on what you think. We will be talking about this in the future.
Next weekend is the Jack Brainard Clinic on Western Dressage in Leaky, TX. Jere will be riding in this clinic and so will several of our students. You may audit this for free, but you can’t ask questions as an auditor because they want the people who have paid to get enough time. Come out and watch this. It will be a classic. And you get to see Jere hollered at, like he hollers at you!!!
SOMETHING YOU CAN’T MISS - We have 2 horses at the house for training that are Bluebonnet Equine Rescue horses. Their foster homes are paying for training so that hopefully they can be adopted. They are both very nice sweet mares. The Bluebonnet Equine Rescue EXPO is October 22, 2011 at the Travis County Expo Arena. This is a big deal and a lot of fun. Both these horses will be up for adoption. Their names are Aspen and Foxy Girl. There are all kinds of demonstrations (and Jere is giving one of them) and a trainers challenge for people who train these horses. The whole idea is to get these horses adopted into a “forever” home!! All animal rescue’s are between a rock and a hard spot right now with big round bales costing $125. Please come out and support the Expo and Bluebonnet Equine Rescue. And if you or anyone else would like to adopt a really nice horse that we have put some time into and their foster homes have worked too, please come and look at them. Here is their web page address.
http://www.bluebonnethorseexpo.com/blog/
Have a good week, and PRAY FOR RAIN.
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