Working on the ground

Today I took Baga and went to the roundpen again to try to speak in horse-language with her. It worked fine and much better than the first time. After I went to her and told her that she was a very good girl, she followed me immediately! I was very happy about this and am getting more and more brave every day ;-) Peter also worked a little bit with Baga so I could took some pictures of her.

After working with Baga I got one of the Arabian horses "Íman" - the gelding - and should do the same with him because I have a little respect/fear about him and so the normal handling is always difficult for me (cleaning Baga on the paddock in peace, leading Baga out of the paddock without the rest of the horses and so on) because he is always everywhere and not moving any meter if I want to send him away.

So I went with a bad feeling into the roundpen and tried the same like I did with Baga but it was not so easy like with Baga ;-) He immediately started in high gallop/stökk and was running and running and "monta sig" (I can not say this in english) and I was really confused about what to do now. But Peter helped me and told me what to do and suddenly it worked! I did faults like everytime but I noticed that he is also only a horse which is watching me precise and tries to read out of me what to do next. As I stopped - because everything was ok and I always want to end with a good result - I went to him, klappaði hann and suddenly he followed me like Baga did it before. Vááááá, what a great feeling :o))))
Further I worked with him on going backwards because often my problem is, that he is not going backwards if I want this! So I stood in front of him and if he came to near I waved with my arms and jumped up and down (luckily the myndavél was far away) and ... nothing happened. He always only raised his head higher and higher and I stood under him only seing the backside of his head ... the nose was far far away.... and I was going on with jumping and waving my arms like an insane. But anytime luckily he went away backwards - of course only because I went on his nerves :o))) But I was the winner!

Lífið er so spennandi, vinkonurnar mínar!

PS: I will change the colour of the blogg-background today because I read the whole text and got nearly blind. Could you ever read this white on black easily?