Time to Roll

Did you know it was like 60 degrees today? And then it started raining around 10:00. Probably the hardest rain we've had all year. (Haha to all you people with freezing temperatures!)
Sadly it's only a one day thing. We're supposed to get snow tomorrow.
But now that I have made fun of some of you I will commense to write about my horse day and maybe indulge and write about this evening.
We pretty much did the same thing we did yesterday only adding one thing which was picking up feet. The fillies are actually not  that bad at it. With more practice they will continue to get better. I also took the longe whip and smacked that against the ground and (one of the reasons these fillies are awesome) they didn't do anything. Did it with Misstack and she about had a heart attack. Okay, maybe  not quite that drastic, because she had her heart attack the first time I did it a while ago.
Misstack is getting better at using her hindquarters to turn and still needs practice. One thing I find interesting is that when she comes out of that turn she pretty much does a leap out. It's almost like she's jumping, but with more forward propulsion. I think that might be why it's harder to stay on her when she's running the pattern. She does a leaping thingy. Maybe now that I know about it I'll be able to stay on.
I did the same thing I did with Santana yesterday too. He was a little bit better, but not by much. He still doesn't totally understand that when there's pressure on his neck he needs to move his shoulder away. He's getting it though. He's down to the third level of pressure which is tapping him on the neck with medium pressure. It used to take the fourth level. He'll get better. I also did flexing with him. And that boy is funny. When you first pick up on the halter, his first reaction is to turn, but once he stops turning he can touch his side. And he did this like the second time I did flexing, but he still was turning in a circle. I just kept doing it until he figured out that it was easier to stand still. As far as the fillies' flexing goes, they are getting better. It doesn't take too much to get them to give to that halter all the way to their belly.
As far as Ana goes, Aleythia says that she thinks that Ana's really getting the concept of all these things.

Now my indulgence time.

One of my sisters (not Aleythia) and I went on a haunted hay ride that was put on by my brother in-law. And if you knew my brother in law the "haunted" part of "hay ride" should scare you.
He totally failed though. None of us screamed or anything I mean we were talking about cheese cake factories! And how a pasta cheese cake would not taste very good. It was still fun though. I can always give my brother in-law the excuse that he had limited help and that we missed the grand finale because our driver took the wrong path. But a few highlights from the night were as follows...
We tripped a wire and nothing happened.
The white trailers looked suspicious.
The fireworks went off too soon.
Large trees were a source of worry.
We stacked a couple hay bales as a barrier to possible chainsaws, running people, and paintball guns.
We were attacked by two guys in masks running at us with clubs.
The guy on our left screamed and at first I jumped. A split second later I wondered when that college kid had gotten home.
That college kid got shot by my brother in-law. What we saw... guy holds gun up to kids head, kid falls down.... What actually happened. Guy holds gun up to kid's head, pulls the trigger, kid falls down. By the way it was an airsoft gun.
Drive home and we joke about how our driver's drunk because he's swerving all over the road.(Scariest part of he trip)
And then we laugh with the guys about the evening.