Bad Lydia!

I know it's awful. I haven't worked with the horses for a week and three days. I'm so ashamed. The last time I went was Thursday? Maybe? And I didn't work with horses. I probably spent 15 min in the barn while Terry shot some mice in his food bin, and then went inside. But I'll explain the mice.
When I got to the barn Terry was cleaning up the paddock so I helped him with that. After I dumped the manure I went back into the barn and Terry had his bee bee gun out and told me that there were mice in his big feed bin. So in the next 15 min he tried to shoot two mice. I'll give him the excuse that it was hard to see into the dark bin. When he caught the first one he tossed it down next to me. I think he wanted to see if he could get a reaction out of me. Eventually one of our two barn cats, Sugar, ate it. I could describe it... but I won't. When he got the second mouse he said, "Sugar!" She looked at him and he tossed it onto the ground. She flew after that thing like her life depended on it. It was kinda funny.

We worked with the fillies today though. So I went and got Coffie and hair is starting to grow on her ringworm. But, she got two new scraps. One is below her eye and it looks like it didn't puncture her skin just took a layer off. The other is on her nose. It's a vertical cut down her nose maybe two inches long. Not very deep but it's definetely swelling. Aleythia got on her and moved around and then after watching her we decided that she needed some desensitizing. She was looking all around and looked like the slightest thing could get her spooked. Aleythia did the rope first, but she was fine with that so I asked her if she wanted a plastic bag and she did. And then Coffie freaked. I think it took 20 min just to get her okay with it. In that time I worked with Toffy and Frosty.
I actually didn't do mutch with Toffy. I caught her and then just rubbed her. She doesn't really enjoy being around people. She doesn't come up to the fence when all the other fillies do when there's a person there and she has an extremely bored expression on her face when I do stuff with her. So I tried to find her favorite rubbing spot. Right when I was gunna give up I found it. She likes being rubbed right below her ear. And that's all I did.
Frosty was kinda fun too. I got on her by getting on the fence and after sending her back and forth she was close enough and comfortable enough with me being up there to let me get on. She stood really nice. I think we should move her up to walking and trotting. She doesn't care if we move around on her. She even let me kneel on her back. I don't quite feel ready enough to stand up.
When I was done Aleythia was done with Coffie and she decided that Dash probably needed desensitizing too so she did that and I think we need to desensitize more often. It's hard to find a balance between sensitizing and desensitizing. I suppose we should start and finish with desensitizing.

We got the cinch for the harness back! We sent it off so that it could get shortened. It was too loose so we couldn't pull anything behind the fillies because the cinch wasn't tight. That was part of the reason we started riding. So I think once we get all the fillies rideable we'll go back to the driving. Or do both.