Nimbus' Graduation to Riding

Piece of cake!

The driving before really paid off. He was so good. Of course, I was out there by myself, but I had the cell phone and you know sometimes you just have to do things, but no way to get a photo while we were riding. I guess I could have taken a photo of our shadow.
He did not quite understand what I wanted, so we spent a lot of time just sitting and moving when he wanted. Then I would ask him to turn or back up. He was not getting “forward” at all for quite a while. Then my light bulb finally went on. I held the reins like they were the lines, clucked and said “Walk on” and off we went. We did a few turns around the corral and then called it a day. I was SO tempted to ride him the quarter mile back to his pasture up the lane, but thought I better keep it simple for his first real ride. I know he could have done it though! It doesn’t seem possible that these guys are 4 now. Where did the time go? It is time for them to be big horses. It’s funny how many things I thought of “Did I do that?”” Did I do enough of this?” before getting on. For him it was just another day and something a little different.