Why my horse is such a goof

... to say hi and then walked all the way back to the arena to fetch his halter. Dave had cleaned out the roundpen so I took him in there. Goof. He enjoys the roundpen but he always has to have his crowhops, his bucks and his half rears. Which makes me giggle. Then he looks at me, sighs, mouths, and gets down to business. The thing I really wanted to work on was this - one step moving when I am ...

... the barn. Sarah's been wanting to get up on the pony and try him out, so she finally did. He was not amused, probably because she weighs like half again what I do. But after some initial crowhops and balks and flailing wtf-ery, he settled into some very nice trot work. And afterwards I crawled up on him and Sarah toddled around the ring on Tessa (!!), who came back from the trainer's last Friday ...

Do I dare????

...esp for having off over a month!!! She lunged well.  We did alot of walk on a long-rein just stretching down and relaxing. Then Cathy had us trot.  She did at this point throw in two very good crowhops.  But after that she just trotted right on and never looked back. At first she was going around like a fire was under her ass, or she was a racehorse. But I got her thinking, listening, and waiting...