Nighthorse, Cleaning, Diagrams

Hey sorry about the delay. I got caught up in life and school. Friday night I went to help at grooming. I found stretch laying down sleeping and got some super cute pictures. That went well and my kids did awesome. Then Saturday was interesting shall we say. I helped with grooming in the morning. Turbo laid down...darn weather stop making the horses colic! He is okay though. I found Stretch in the pasture and babied him. I also groomed his mane and tail while someone else groomed him. Then I checked in for Nighthorse and turned in my 20 sequences. For class we reviewed our quizzes. I got 100% and 98%. Then we watched some videos of Royals drill before taking a sequence test. I passed!!!! Yay :) to finish out class we officially started diagramming Flag. We did 5 maneuvers for 16 total diagrams. I finished mine on Sunday which was part of my delay in getting this post out. Now the fun part! I went to see who I had for my ride and I had Stretch!!!! I'm doing a three in a row rule before I call him my assigned horse. I picked his feet before the ride and started tightening his cinch while he was on the rail. I also tightened his cinch while I was waiting outside the volunteer. I didn't want his pad falling forward again. His stirrups are either too short or too long. I went with too long because the shorter ones cramped up my ankles and bounced me out of the saddle. For the ride we worked on not breaking gait during circles and reverses. Stretch favors his right lead but he will switch to the left with coaxing. Then we tried a full team Spanish Bowline and that was really fun. Stretch was super fired up and wasn't listening very well. I need to work on his stops lol. His pad also slipped again. I talked to my instructors after class and we are going to flip his pad around to change the build up and I also got some exercises to do with stretch before warm ups start. We also got to gather around the crows nest for the first time! EEK! Then we sang happy birthday and had to leave for the tractor. I handed off stretch to a JI and headed to clean. I was assigned to the lobby. It honestly didn't take too long. Once dismissed I headed up to JI at 2. I got OD (OverDrive) He was really good. Then I unsaddled him and watched my sister's first Colorado Stampede ride. Weird not being in there hahaha. Overall not a bad day but Stretch's trot makes me sooooo sore.