Blogging, like all creative activities, is easier if you have a good attitude. I am refinishing another floor and it has me wallowing in self pity. Going off to work, has this effect on me now. It is hard to blog about the farm since it is dark when I leave and getting dark when I return. Kris is doing all the chores and taking care of the animals.
We are so impatient for spring that we saddled up the horses and just sat on them the other day. It is still icy and motion would be taking a chance. Well actually we rode around the outside of the paddock in sloooww motion. Still, it was good to be on the horses. We have had them long enough they are old friends. Each movement is recognized and appreciated. Their mannerisms and peculiarities are a familiar and comfortable for both horse and rider. When we first got the horses Kris kept asking if she was giving the right cues for this or that. My response was always that it made no difference. I'm not sure I do the correct cues for things. I have however ridden one horse long enough, that if I thought something, the mare did it. I wasn't really giving cues, she was just reading me. It is hard to explain to someone who hasn't experienced it, but you are riding and the two of you become one. If you spend enough time on your horse, it just happens. Training is good, but time spent riding your horse is the only way to achieve this. What cue I, is not something I think about when I am riding. I just ride. The horse goes. The more you ride, the better the results.
This one-ness is kind of a zen experience and it heals the soul. In less mystic terms, it makes you feel good. As a result, when you don't ride everyday, you miss it. We are ready for spring and ready to ride. Bring on the mud!
Five thirty AM, I gotta run. Work calls-- kind of a plaintive wail from a world I thought I had left behind. I can't believe people do this everyday. Some people actually enjoy going to work. I am guessing they don't own horses.
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