Kelly
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Oct 3
Walked Breezy 1 mile in my orchard
Walked Breezy 1 mile in my orchard
Walking/Hiking with our minis and ponies - Mile Tracker!
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Do you typically ground drive with a bridle or can you use a halter? I want to start teaching Squirt how to ground drive because we got a surcingle, but don't have a bridle.....
I can definitely use a halter and often do - usually with just one line though (it's a rope halter). He is way, way softer in the bridle than the halter still, and also he seems to feel that the bridle means "work" whereas the halter means "let's see what she'll let me get away with", so it's a lot less work for me to use the bridle! But you can definitely use two lines on a halter with the surcingle and see how it goes. I just think Rowan was never taught to give at all to pressure on a halter so that's why he's such a bull with it. Big improvements, but he will still give a good pull once in a while.
Willow Flats
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1/4 mile with Kriss.
I groomed him, then took him for a short walk. He felt so good when I put him away that he had a good roll and poof! Bye bye shiny coat. Hello leaves in my mane!
I groomed him, then took him for a short walk. He felt so good when I put him away that he had a good roll and poof! Bye bye shiny coat. Hello leaves in my mane!
Kelly
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Oct 4
Walked Stormy at Oakmont Park for 2.10 miles
Walked Stormy at Oakmont Park for 2.10 miles
Kelly
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Oct 6
Walked Thunder for 1.12 miles in my orchard
Walked Thunder for 1.12 miles in my orchard
October 6: DD, Tinker, and grandkids 3/4 of a mile......Grandma 37... 
1/2 mile for Peanut, 1/3mile for Cappy and a stroll or two for my welsh pony this past week.
Kelly
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Rain, rain go away, my little ponies want to come out and play 
Oct 11
Walk Breezy 1 mile
Oct 12
Walk Thunder 1 mile before the rain started ystrdy
Oct 11
Walk Breezy 1 mile
Oct 12
Walk Thunder 1 mile before the rain started ystrdy
About 2.5 miles with Rowan today. He was a superstar, we did lots of trotting.
1/3 mile with Cappy and a stroll with my old timer.
Kelly
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Oct 16
Roller skate in the hood with Stormy 1.30 miles
Roller skate in the hood with Stormy 1.30 miles
Willow Flats
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Abby ~ What a beautiful setting!!!!
It's so nice, especially in the fall! The bugs are finally winding down (we have had a weirdly warm October so far but it's cooling off at last), I only got one mosquito bite yesterday. 
Hopefully there will be no strangles quarantine at my barn EVER AGAIN, that kept us off the trails for three months last year.
Hopefully there will be no strangles quarantine at my barn EVER AGAIN, that kept us off the trails for three months last year.
Bet he's really getting the hang of the whole thing. What fun!
Kelly
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It is so much fun! We are having a great time. I think he is really enjoying it. I am hoping to take him roller skating at a park one day next week… after hubby and I get back from our anniversary trip.
Kelly
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Oct 18
Walk Breezy in the hood for 1.30 miles
Walk Breezy in the hood for 1.30 miles
DD: Oct.19: 2 miles, down the road and back through the harvested corn field. She did really well and didn’t grab for any dropped ears on the ground.
Beautiful perfect Fall day.
Beautiful perfect Fall day.
Maybe 1.5 miles for Rowan today. Towards the end we ran into someone from a neighboring barn on a 16h TWH who thought Rowan was the absolute scariest thing he had ever seen, he spun and tried to bolt, then after she rode past us, he spun again and tried to charge us! Rowan was unfazed but it's a good thing I wasn't in the cart, the horse's head might have popped right off, I'm sure he's never seen THAT before. But I'm sure this is why minis think they own the planet.
