Great First Ride

I love the new barn!!! It's such a perfect fit for us. It's blissfully quiet, only one or two other people there at any given time & the arena is just big enough that Jimmy and I can get work done. It's smaller than I remember from my first look but it's absolutely big enough for us to work in all winter long. It's Jimmy sized.

He was very "hoppy" tonight at the trot, but Cass had her music up pretty loud & he'd never experienced loud music in an arena, so he was more distracted than he's probably ever been. I'll attribute the "hoppiness" to distraction - the wind howled so much I could barely hear myself think so he couldn't have been comfortable in that respect either. He cantered more tonight, also. Slowly I'm bringing him up more and more each night. We went about 3 times around each direction at the canter, which this arena might be 3/4 the size of the old barn's outdoor, so I'd say that's a good amount to ask him to step up for tonight. I hope to go out tomorrow and ride again. I might bump back up to three nights a week, because I'm just so stoked to have a place to ride.

Here's Jimmy in the indoor after our ride tonight, being excellently cute. His weight looks great & he starts his new high-protein feed tomorrow so the muscle development should really pick up. Love this big guy!!!

My little nerd.

Such a good boy.