09/07/2020
Y'all...THIS happened today!!! I have about 5,000 things to say about this little clip--but mostly that a little less than a year ago, Willow's owner Dana Peterson and I had a lot of real talks about this mare's future. As of late last fall, she still didn't have a reliably clean single change, and she was really struggling with understanding them. We even gave her a deadline. It would be the winter of the changes, and if by March she was still just not getting them, we'd move on, and find Wills something else she liked to do. We did SO MANY exercises all winter...and we slogged, and suffered, and struggle bussed our way around for MONTHS on end. And slowly, they got better. And better. And then, kind of more secure. And then, one day, kind of easy. And then the tempis started to happen. And today, we tried this. I'm so, so proud of this mare, and appreciative of everyone who keeps helping us during the slogging. So I'm posting because I'm really excited, but also as a reminder to myself that sometimes it takes SO SO much messy to get to the good stuff. But the good stuff is worth the work.