taste of things to come

well, today was very interesting, so very unxpected, but like wow.

a number of times ive just taken vinur out to 'hang out' with him, an today was no different, so after a little graze i thought that we'd go in to the school and just have little play.

we starte by doing a circling driving game around a barrel, weve tried it before around a wheel barrow but it din't work well, but it did with the barrel, not suprising really, then we did some really good figure of eight. afterwhich i thought that id set something up so the we could do some sideways, so i took the rope off, just so he coul have some time to himself, i didn't expect him to follow me and be interested in what i was doing.

so after putting a few poles on the floor i was suprised to see him move over to them, a situation i couldn't leave so i asked him to go sideways, my heart was going and i was so affraid of doing anything to upset him and him just disappear, but no he went sideways. we did it both ways over a pole, we then did abit of draw, followed with some backup.

i had decided earlier that id like to have a little ride, so i took the opportunity to have a ride with only a cordeo, althought the steering needs to be improved a little it went very well, we had a little walk roun, then i thought id just ask for something more, and we ended up having a little canter and then we came out of the canter into tölt.

we then spent the last few minutes doing flexions and i sat sideways on him for a short while.

cant wait to see how our relationship and abilities develop in the future, however i wont neglet the fundamentals and i certainly dont want to push what we aren't ready for - as difficult as it will be.