Externship–DAY 45–Horsemanship, Clipper Prep, Facility Rotations and Joyful Labor

Now I must think of the day, oh how the time flies! This morning we had a blood pumping and inspiring game of soccer with the group as a warm up. We all had horsemanship time from 8:30 to 11:00 am, I played with building rapport with the trailer, long line driving with 45 foot line, Liberty out in the open and in round pen, freestyle bridless in the 50 foot and out in the open. We had a very good session!

We had the pleasure of listening to Berin as he did a great demonstration of clipping the Parelli way, we all snatched some massagers and simulated clippers on our horses where they needed the friendly game the most. We broke for lunch and then our group had the facility rotation where we did speeches, a quiz, learned about plumbing, chain saws, hand saws and drove a skidsteer. I learned A LOT from Jim in this class, I learn a lot from each class! W

e had our very inspiring and morale building weekly meeting and broke for dinner, afterwards I helped with dishes and went to the office to update Parelli Connect because I was out of internet service, it’s fixed now! So I can type more. Tomorrow it sounds like we will do horsemanship in the morning, lunch, hay run and then setting up for Parelli games. See you then!

Externship - DAY 44 - Pat's Road to the Horse Talk Horsemanship and Hay Run!

Internet is still not back up, will have to talk with someone tomorrow about it. This morning at 8:00 am we all had a chance to listen to Pat, I am so beyond proud of him and honestly was one of the most enjoyable talks with him. His energy has changed a lot since he has gotten back, it's calming and sweet, I really like the atmosphere he brought to us. The horse he started, Troubadour, is doing very well. They showed a video, I cried more than once, it was beautiful and reminded me of why we are here. We made our way across the street for a horsemanship session that lasted until 1:00 pm, played with so many neat freestyle tasks. We had lunch and Michael and I went on the hay run with Leelah on the tractor. We had soccer practice, our funny little group of young students just got some extra time in. Mastery students did a Q & A session for the fast trackers then we broke for dinner, did
dishes and went and studied for facility tomorrow and enjoyed each others company. See you tomorrow!

Externship - Day 34 - Horsemanship and Rotations

I do have to apologise because this will be short, my internet is still down for some reason! Today was spent enjoying a gorgeous early morning along with an exhilarating soccer game. We played with traveling bowties, Sundance did great! Now I know what to work on with him. We watched a DVD as a class of Pat talking with Mastery students in Colorado about Liberty, Drive and Draw and Horse development. We broke for lunch then had a chance to help with teachers for the fast track set up then watch a wonderful fluidity demo. I had a chance to work on two projects, then have dinner and play with my beautiful horses and friends until we started to gaze upon the stars. Tomorrow offers another exciting day as we are to meet Pat at 8:00 in the morning, I also have the hay rotation which is a blast! See you guys then...

On teaching rotation watching fast trackers view a saddling fluidity demo...