Day 158

Hopefully, I can smell some changes afoot at the stable =] But I won't jinx myself by telling you my hopes now, I can only wait and see that they happen!

It was sooo hot today and it's only gonna be hotter tomorrow. Great. Things started off quite scarily with Nina. My brother was lunging her while I was lunging Brie and I look over and just see Nina start bucking like a mad woman and yell over "What are you doing to her???" and he's like "Nothing, I don't know what's wrong!" and she starts spinning and yanks my brother with her, wrapping the pisador all around her legs and violently shaking her head. He's trying to run around her fast enough to untangle the pisador and I just yell to him to drop the rope because she'll be able to get out of it (it's pretty short) so he drops it and runs screaming for my mom to come see what's wrong while Nina is just spinning around and falling over herself in the sand, not really trying to run anywhere but throwing her head all over the place. She had the rear end collector (fruit basket) on and that had fallen off to the side and now I was just worried that she would step in the net part of it and get stuck. I couldn't really do anything with Brie so I just get close enough to try to see what's wrong when my mom gets there with my dad and they both hold her head down long enough to untangle her and for me to spot the problem: there's a HUGE bee in her forelock! I tell them and my brother runs for a brush and my mom tries to take it out with that, but it's stuck in there so she just mashes it and my brother runs back with a comb so she can comb the squished bee out of Nina's hair. I don't know if it bit her or if she just got scared from the buzzing or could feel it stuck under her hair, but the poor baby was so shaken up she was sweating and huffing and puffing! Everyone took her back into the aisle and patted her off with a cool towel until she stopped breathing so hard. Poor thing. I'm glad my brother dropped the rope when I told him otherwise he would've been trampled underneath her if he had still been hanging on two seconds later!

After all the commotion and another huge round of bug spray, we all started riding. Nina seemed pretty relaxed afterwards and it was Harry who was giving my mom a hard time. That sucker doesn't want to flex to the right again! He kept trying to rear on her. I can't wait to get a hold of his punky butt tomorrow if he tries to pull that with me!

Brie was a little canter machine today. She turned everything she could into a canter step! Sometimes I regret teaching her that, but then I forget when we have great romps outside like we did today. On our first trip outside, we saw a deer. That freaked her out. I said that it's pretty great that she didn't bolt while I was on her, but I doubt that freezing in place would help her in the wild if she was faced with a mountain lion or something! All circumstantial I guess, since she'll never be out in the wild as long as I have her! She'd probably die from a lack of carrots.

On our second trip outside with everyone else, she was a total doll. I had a completely loose rein, I was literally holding it with only three fingers and she was walking beautifully! Her favorite thing is to charge up the little hill that's on the property and look over everything like a watch-tower.

Now that Brie is getting better at walking (keyword: WALKING) outside, Harry needs to get over himself. He's such a ball of nerves whenever we go outside and if Nina walks 10 feet a head of him or decides to stop and turn the other way to look at something, it's like the world is crashing down around him! He's such a follower and Nina's his leader. He needs to get a little independence. =]