GEESE!!!!!

I had a pretty eventful day with my horses. I rode six of them. Frosty, Toffy, Dash, Coffie, Santana, and Misstack.
I rode Toffy out in the alfalfa field. She was fine. We did a little bit of trotting, but we didn't stay out there long.
In order to get into the alfalfa field, without opening up a bunch of gates, you have to go past a house that has a couple of dogs that like to bark and run towards whatever is on the other side of the fence. The last time I brought Toffy into the alfalfa field was when she had all those worms in her stomach and she freaked out when the dogs came. I didn't want to deal with that when Toffy's steering is somewhat faulty and not quite developed. So, I asked Terry to lead Toffy past the dogs. Her reaction was pretty minor. All she did was tense and jump forward like three inches and that was it.
Frosty was pretty good. That or I can't remember. She was good. We did trotting and direction. Ok I did that with all the fillies. Just so I don't have to keep saying it.
Coffie was good too. Actually she cantered. I asked her to trot and she did, but her trot kept getting faster and then it felt really weird and I was like girl what are you doing. I turned her and then I figured it out. She wanted to canter. I asked for the trot again and this time I didn't stop her from cantering. We got maybe four strides in before I turned her again. What a good little girl!
And then there was Dash. She bucked. Twice. The first time I fell off. She can buck hard! The second time I stayed on. Plus of this? I figured out why she was bucking. She did it when I used my command cue to get her to go forward. Which is taking the end of my rein and slapping her haunches with it. Though thinking about it I wonder if that might have been my fault that she bucked at that.
The first time I gave her my command cue to go forward I went from soft to hard very quickly. We ended on a good note though. She was trotting really nicely.
Santana went really well. He was flexing really nicely and I loved it. I rode with a saddle, because I didn't feel to secure just hopping him bareback after not riding him for a few months.
Misstack was being Misstack. She wasn't paying attention so... I kicked some horse hiney. It helped. She was doing what I asked more consciously instead of staring at everything that moved and ignoring me.

We have geese!!!! Gives me hope that spring will be here soon, school will be out, and winter won't stay forever.

... This was yesterday... I forgot to Publish...