so today I had a lesson at lunch with Mere.  It was planned as a jump lesson but alas, Cook (in cohoots with the construction workers) had other plans.  I tack Cook up and she’s sleeping in the cross ties.  No problem.  We walk the gravel road, no problem.  We turn the corner to go on the trail and holy crap, Batman!  The construction crew is shingling the roof!  (which means they are tearing up the shingles, throwing them down and then putting new ones on with a VERY loud tool)  So I’m walking, Cook is jigging and I’m thinking this is gonna be fun.  (Mere was 2 minutes behind me with Tig, a very pregnant mare that was just coming down to stretch her legs and keep Cook company in the ring).  So we get in the ring gate and Cook is just UPSET.   Like no other.  So I figure I will just hop on and walk her around and everything will be fine.  So I managed to get on and she is just nuts.  N-U-T-S.   She is  so SCARED.  Just scared out of her wits of the falling shingles.  I hopped down.  I can’t afford to get bucked off cause of falling shingles during lunch.  After work, yes.  Lunchtime, no.

Mere comes down with Tig and it’s instant relief.  Cook settles down cause there is another horse there.  (who apparently the shingles will eat first).  She was still too upset to jump or canter so we had a flat lesson.  I was glad anyway though cause my flat needs work.  So Mere and I worked on getting Cook to bend better.  I did ok.  I wish that Cook was down a notch so I could do better but I am also glad that we went through with “work” because I don’t want Cook to think she can act up and that gets her back to the barn.

Yay.  I told Mere that I need to join in the young kid lessons in order to work on some of my basics.  Cause frankly without structure, I’m lazy.