Just so you can compare my tucker is set up with western skirt and rigging as against the endurance set up. You wont be sorry and your bum will thank you but try and try one first and get the right tree size.
The rider in my photo is one of the grand children and the horse is Stella. The saddle is a WIDE tree full bars.
Are you transmitting your feelings for M to the horse. Just ride however makes you and Jay comfortable. I spent most of my early riding with women and being the only male it used to really get to me being told what to do all the time. I picked on one person who I thought had the knowledge and listened only to her. And still do. Bearing in mind we trek which is pushing through new scrub a lot of the time so one is always being tested. I was not until I learnt, that I needed to learn, what the horse knew and he had to learn what my signals meant, then I started to get on better with my horse hence me having a few lessons with Bugs filly.
If Jay is playing up with the other horse it may be a number of things but I believe it to be one of two. Your feelings transmitted to him, or his towards the other horse.
Turn them out together for an hour before the ride and let them get there pecking order sorted.
Don't let her make you doubt yourself and shake your confidence because you think she has more knowledge than yourself. You ride for enjoyment so you only have to impress Jay.
As for riding correctly. I think if you can get the horse to go forward, backwards, left and right and to stop when you want, and not to blast off into the distance with you hanging on for dear life screaming whoa Needy and Needy is not the name of your horse then you are doing it right.
Now go and sit you butt in a Tucker, your horse will thank you for it. And no Its only a rumour that I receive a commission on tucker sales.
Hi every one else and its raining here on my place again. cowagirl good to hear from you.
On employment in NZ we have the industrial relations act and the employment contracts act which gives protection to the employee against unfair dismissal and it also give the employee the right to challenge the employer without any comeback.
Sounds like you in the US need to push the politicians on human rights and remind them frequently that they get into office by election.
I have been engaged in a dispute for 6 months now which is reaching a head in the next few days but only because I am driving it. However the price I am paying is constant high stress and weekends spent in and out of bad moods and the inability to get on with myself let alone any thing else. Because of the stress and that equates to no horse time, no wife time, no ability to function on a relaxed level at all at this time and depression because my thoughts are always focused on the problem at hand and strategy needed for the coming weeks and not enjoyment of life.
That's one of the reasons I am having problems with Bugs he feeds off my emotions and as my patients is a little short its not fair on him if he does not get what I am trying to teach him. I am fearful I may take out my bad attitude on him so I only give him time when I can handle his antics. I have to admit I am getting a little wary of having my weekends destroyed by this issue and have made up my mind to get it settled. On Monday I will be giving notice that it must be resolved to my satisfaction by the 3rd of July. That gives the powers that be, five more business days and will put a cat amongst the pigeon's again. But if one is right then one has to see it through and correct the wrong that has been done.
That's the end of my rant and this part of the novel, but as the word implies, it is not fiction :lol: And if its disjointed that's my thinking at present. All over the place.
Cheers all