Nothin'

Good Evenin'

Well, it's later than we think! But, I better not get started on time changes and politicians, can't leave anything alone! Ok, just one little joke: my new slogan, " if it ain't broke, they'll fix it!".

Well, tarnation, now they wanta close our post office! They can afford the salary for fancy folk, drive all the way up here from Arizona, in their fancy cars, all dolled up in their fancy clothes and give a whole bunch a fancy reasons, why we can't keep our post office, but they can't afford the post office! This is what politicans do; pay themselves so well, ain't no money left do anything else, 'cept save up for their re-election campaign! See, I never should a said a word.

Anyway, on ta bigger and brighter topics, like horses. Got ta go back and see the neighbors horse, again. This'd be the one with the confidence issue. I'd been thinking about what I could do, help him out some, where he's got so many mixed and confusing messages, from his owner and "trainers", none of which seem to have understood, maybe for good reason, a) that every horse is different, generally good and full a "want to" and b) that whatever ya do, ya got ta do it with confidence.

People quess, stead a just payin' attention to the horse in fronta them. When ya guess, yer gonna get nervous. The horse'll get nervous. It's really pretty simple.

Anyway, trimmed his front feet, per request, then moved him around, workin' on "feel"; gait and direction, drawin' him in, movin' him off the other way. Here to, I could tell, folks had been clumsy and heavy handed, by the way he'd disconnect and respond outta fear, stead a "feel. Anyway, I just kept tellin' him it was ok and tryin' again. When he'd settled down some, I put the lead rope on and lead him over to the rail for some figure eights and some leanin' and leg rubbin'. Again, waitin' for some "let down", then I tried my best consideration for helpin' him relax and forget all his doubts about "doin anything right", I just slid on real casual, lay forward, put my arms around his neck and just rubbed on his shoulders, not askin' for anything more; sure 'nough, four or five minutes, he just dropped his head and started lickin' his lips.

Maybe, we'll just work on "nothin'" for a while, then see if we can't build on that; nice and easy, same "feel".

Have a nice night.

Best,
jeune