Day 11-Pat and Linda don't where a helmet….do you? Why or Why Not?
At present I do not. It is something I think about everyday.
Day 12-Your favorite horsenality to play with and why?
Can't say, having never played with every horsenality yet.
Day 13-Post a video (could be an audition) of you playing with your horse
Here's an older clip of Duke and I playing about a year ago.
Day 14-What PNH tools, clothing, tack etc. do you own?
Oh boy...let's see. 3 rope halters (blue, green and black) 2 12' lead ropes, 2 22' lead ropes, 1 45' rope, 2 carrot sticks, 4 6' savvy strings (3 white, 1 red), 9' finesse reins, Western Theraflex pad with 2 shims, green ball, purple long sleeve shirt, several t-shirts and a sun visor.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
30 day PNH blog challenge, Day 10.
Day 10 - Post your favorite picture of you and your partner and write about it.
Me and Duke after a ride at the arena with friends. I think it was taken in February or March 2009. It's the smile on my face, and the softness of Duke's eyes that always pulls me to this photo. I'd had Duke not quite a year when this photo was taken and he were just starting to bond with each other. Our ride that day was fun and I think I may have been working toward our first canter in the arena. I remember being very relaxed and happy that day, and throughly enjoying my time with Duke.
Monday, February 7, 2011
30 day PNH blog challenge, Days 5 through 9
Day 5 - What is your favorite DVD, Celebration, Tour Stop etc..etc…moment?
Reno Celebration May 2009 Kalley Krickberg playing with the Atwood Ranch yearlings. When the livestock trailer entered the arena and the yearlings began following that trailer around with Dean Martin singing 'Return to Me' in the background...it brought tears to my eyes.
Day 6 - What is your dream with your horse?
To experience what it means when there's nothing you can't do when your horse becomes a part of you.
And maybe someday participate and finish a 50 mile endurance ride.
Day 7- A time you turned a moment of frustration into a moment of "Hmm How Interesting?"
Last week during a session of weaving between cones. Duke kept knocking the cones over, rushing ahead of me and just wasn't into the exercise. We were playing on the 22' line and a friend helped me realize we needed to go back to the 12' line and slow down.
Day 8 - What is your horsenality, what is your partners horsenality and how do you make them work together?
I'm a left brain introvert, Duke is a left brain extrovert and until recently he was an introvert. The more we travel on this journey, the more he reveals himself to me. With this recent change I need to study the extrovert personality more, but I'm finding that as long as I play with him everyday, he's more and more eager to get out and do something.
Day 9 - A moment you have had with your partner that would not have been possible without PNH.
Loading Duke by myself in the trailer with calm confidence. For me, that was a major turning point in my journey.
Reno Celebration May 2009 Kalley Krickberg playing with the Atwood Ranch yearlings. When the livestock trailer entered the arena and the yearlings began following that trailer around with Dean Martin singing 'Return to Me' in the background...it brought tears to my eyes.
Day 6 - What is your dream with your horse?
To experience what it means when there's nothing you can't do when your horse becomes a part of you.
And maybe someday participate and finish a 50 mile endurance ride.
Day 7- A time you turned a moment of frustration into a moment of "Hmm How Interesting?"
Last week during a session of weaving between cones. Duke kept knocking the cones over, rushing ahead of me and just wasn't into the exercise. We were playing on the 22' line and a friend helped me realize we needed to go back to the 12' line and slow down.
Day 8 - What is your horsenality, what is your partners horsenality and how do you make them work together?
I'm a left brain introvert, Duke is a left brain extrovert and until recently he was an introvert. The more we travel on this journey, the more he reveals himself to me. With this recent change I need to study the extrovert personality more, but I'm finding that as long as I play with him everyday, he's more and more eager to get out and do something.
Day 9 - A moment you have had with your partner that would not have been possible without PNH.
Loading Duke by myself in the trailer with calm confidence. For me, that was a major turning point in my journey.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
30 day PNH blog challenge - Day 3 & Day 4
Day 3-What is your partners favorite game?
Hmm, when Duke's playing with other horses, definitely the porcupine game. On those occasions when I have a chance to observe him interacting with other horses, he uses his teeth to move the other horse, everytime. He's not afraid to back down from a more dominate horse, either.
When Duke's playing with me, it's the driving game. Lately I've noticed when we're playing this on the 22' line and I send him to an object, he's engaged and asking lots of questions; he never used to ask questions. On the 12' line he really enjoys the driving game when I'm in zone 2 or 3. For now, that's his game, but in six months or a year, it may be a different game he enjoys more. He's really starting to put more energy into the circling game than he used to and whether that has to do with a more dynamic extroverted nature, or something else I cannot say at this time.
Day 4-One BFO (blinding flash of the obvious) moment you've had?
Oh boy...there's been so many! Most recently it was during a session weaving four cones on the 22' line that wasn't going very well. Cones were falling over, Duke was rushing through the pattern, getting ahead of me, and I was getting frustrated. It took a friend pointing out to me that maybe the foundatoin was weak and needed strengthening. Sure enough, we went back to the 12' line and slowed down; the cones stayed upright, Duke stayed calm and walked within the pattern of the cones. Lesson learned: when things don't appear to be working check for holes in the foundation.
Hmm, when Duke's playing with other horses, definitely the porcupine game. On those occasions when I have a chance to observe him interacting with other horses, he uses his teeth to move the other horse, everytime. He's not afraid to back down from a more dominate horse, either.
When Duke's playing with me, it's the driving game. Lately I've noticed when we're playing this on the 22' line and I send him to an object, he's engaged and asking lots of questions; he never used to ask questions. On the 12' line he really enjoys the driving game when I'm in zone 2 or 3. For now, that's his game, but in six months or a year, it may be a different game he enjoys more. He's really starting to put more energy into the circling game than he used to and whether that has to do with a more dynamic extroverted nature, or something else I cannot say at this time.
Day 4-One BFO (blinding flash of the obvious) moment you've had?
Oh boy...there's been so many! Most recently it was during a session weaving four cones on the 22' line that wasn't going very well. Cones were falling over, Duke was rushing through the pattern, getting ahead of me, and I was getting frustrated. It took a friend pointing out to me that maybe the foundatoin was weak and needed strengthening. Sure enough, we went back to the 12' line and slowed down; the cones stayed upright, Duke stayed calm and walked within the pattern of the cones. Lesson learned: when things don't appear to be working check for holes in the foundation.
Monday, January 31, 2011
30 day PNH blog challenge - Day 2
Day 2-What is your favorite savvy and why?
Liberty. No rope, no reins, no saddle. Just me and Duke...totally free. Liberty is one of the most challenging savvy's but it's also so much fun.
Liberty takes me back to the carefree days of my childhood when I lived in Southern California. I can remember Saturday mornings waking up early before anyone else in the house and eagerly hopping on my bike for a 9 mile ride from North Hills (fka Sepulveda) to Canoga Park. Waiting for me there was Pee Wee, a bay gelding (didn't know what breed, didn't care) whose owner had recently become a mama and was unable to devote time to him. I spent hours just hanging out and playing with Pee Wee; something I now know as undemanding time. I was in heaven, just being in his pasture with him. sometimes I'd stand on his water trough and he'd walk over so I could get on his back. He'd walk around, graze, stand...didn't matter because I loved this time with him. Now it's called bridleless riding, but back then it was just being there. On the ground, if he ignored me I made it a game to get his attention. I would spend hours with him, totally losing track of time and upsetting my mom more than once.
Sometimes when I look at Duke, I catch a brief glimpse of Pee Wee...and for just a moment I'm back in that pasture, playing...carefree once again.
Liberty. No rope, no reins, no saddle. Just me and Duke...totally free. Liberty is one of the most challenging savvy's but it's also so much fun.
Liberty takes me back to the carefree days of my childhood when I lived in Southern California. I can remember Saturday mornings waking up early before anyone else in the house and eagerly hopping on my bike for a 9 mile ride from North Hills (fka Sepulveda) to Canoga Park. Waiting for me there was Pee Wee, a bay gelding (didn't know what breed, didn't care) whose owner had recently become a mama and was unable to devote time to him. I spent hours just hanging out and playing with Pee Wee; something I now know as undemanding time. I was in heaven, just being in his pasture with him. sometimes I'd stand on his water trough and he'd walk over so I could get on his back. He'd walk around, graze, stand...didn't matter because I loved this time with him. Now it's called bridleless riding, but back then it was just being there. On the ground, if he ignored me I made it a game to get his attention. I would spend hours with him, totally losing track of time and upsetting my mom more than once.
Sometimes when I look at Duke, I catch a brief glimpse of Pee Wee...and for just a moment I'm back in that pasture, playing...carefree once again.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
30 Day PNH Blog Challenge - Day 1
Found this today over at Brooke's blog Our Horsemanship Journey. Okay I'm up for a challenge.
PNH BLOG CHALLENGE
Day 1-How did you find PNH?
It was a change from cable tv to satellite that led me to PNH. In August 2007 I had just reconnected with horses through some friends who raise Morgans; it had been 24 years since I'd last been around these beautiful creatures. Around that time, one Sunday morning Sam and I encountered a new station called RFD-TV and on that station a show called Parelli Natural Horsemanship was on. Here was this cowboy wearing short chaps (chinks I later learned) playing with a beautiful black Friesian gelding...and I was hooked. It was immediate affinity. Everything this guy did made sense to me and I felt I was watching not only a cowboy, but a master horseman. I wanted to learn more and turned to the internet to find out who this Parelli guy was (wasn't there a tire company by that name?). One thing led to another and while I had always dreamed of having a horse someday, finding PNH was the first step toward that dream.
PNH BLOG CHALLENGE
Day 1-How did you find PNH?
It was a change from cable tv to satellite that led me to PNH. In August 2007 I had just reconnected with horses through some friends who raise Morgans; it had been 24 years since I'd last been around these beautiful creatures. Around that time, one Sunday morning Sam and I encountered a new station called RFD-TV and on that station a show called Parelli Natural Horsemanship was on. Here was this cowboy wearing short chaps (chinks I later learned) playing with a beautiful black Friesian gelding...and I was hooked. It was immediate affinity. Everything this guy did made sense to me and I felt I was watching not only a cowboy, but a master horseman. I wanted to learn more and turned to the internet to find out who this Parelli guy was (wasn't there a tire company by that name?). One thing led to another and while I had always dreamed of having a horse someday, finding PNH was the first step toward that dream.
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