Lesson Day
Guys. I had my lesson today, and we jumped an oxer. AN OXER!!!! Okay, it was a 2-2'3 baby oxer, and we had a refusal at one point at a different jump earlier in the lesson that was mostly entirely my fault, but seriously today was the best lesson/ride that I have had on my horse so far. He was incredible. He was jumping 2' like he'd been doing it for years (he started jumping 2 months ago, and until today we've pretty much only done crossrails and nothing more complicated than a diagonal line), but today we jumped all of the things, and for my baby birdbrained pony, 2' is a pretty big deal at this point in his life. We started off outside, and I was a little leery because I haven't ridden out there since before my vacation due to the weather - even though we lunged outside yesterday, he was kind of an ass towards the end and I don't entirely trust him to not be a dick. But to my delight, he was being really good. Tense and giraffe-like, b...