haha, sounds like Blessi is a comedian with the tarp :) I think you
are doing great with him. I think if you show them a lot of things
then even when something weird comes up on the trail they will take a
chance and trust you. We came up on a camoflouge deer hunting blind
in the woods once, right smack in the middle of the trail. It had
little flake leaves all over it wiggling in the breeze. My jaspar
snorted and blew and walked sideways past it but the horse behind us
danced and then bolted and threw the rider. And one time my Jaspar
absolutely refused to pass a burned out still smoldering campfire we
came up on. I realized later it was the burning smell maybe? I kept
on at him and got him to take a chance and he did, but he did a little
squirrelly rush past it :)
janice--
courage is being scared to death...and saddling up anyway--John Wayne
