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12/02/2004: "A Quick Up Date – Originally Posted September 13, 2004"

This is the entry I wanted to make Saturday, but, for whatever reason, the Net has been so slow lately that I couldn’t get ANYTHING done. This happens to us periodically, and I’m not sure why – possibly the old, OLD phone lines we have to use. Anyway..,

I rode Indy in the new saddle yesterday for the first time. Things went just super. Indy seemed to be more comfortable in the new saddle – as I had hoped he might – and was very relaxed the entire time. I went ahead and used the side pull for now, while I’m getting myself used to a new saddle. I can’t do any serious training until I get used to the saddle anyway, and Indy certainly is happier without the bit! More about bits later.

It’s a darn good thing I didn’t get that girth any longer though – I ended up with it in the last hole on both sides! Having elastic on both ends probably made it need to be tighter than a girth of comparable length with only one elastic end. Still, Indy seemed much more comfortable with the girthing up process – the ONE thing he seriously disliked about being tacked up.

I didn’t ride yesterday because Joe, our new hay guy, was in the field with the tedder, getting our second cutting ready for bailing. He will probably be bailing this afternoon, and he and Mike will be putting a few of the round bales into the barn. Indy will want to supervise all that, so I won’t interfere with something like riding LOL!