yesterday on our ride, my husband was tasked with videoing things for the virtual horse show. He apparently decided he was director and producer and everything in charge of the whole deal. He rode behind me the whole ride and would holler "theres a log! ok, have him step up on it!! No no!! dont step over! step UP step UP, dang it janice you screwed the whole thing up!" and he didnt get Tivar stepped across the log, and I had him sidepass the length of it.
Then next obstacle. There is a little sinkhole very steep sided but on one side, would be easy to walk down into, turn the horse around and come out. He could film from the top edge and look down on us way below and film us going in, turning and coming out. I laid out the plan. I had to walk tivar through thick vines that caught his feet and at one point even trapped him so he had to kick out til it let go of his back ankle, ride him through limbs that I had to break off so we could pass, walk him through dense underbrush, down the slope, he did a turn, I waved at the camera, came out, maneuvered through all that junk again and my husband said "rats I didnt get it!" the other horses we were with were dancing like crazy so I said oh heck forget it. Then we come on a small pond. I wanted to take tivar in it. My husband said "we are not supposed to go in waterbodies anymore, you'll get a ticket" I told him that was a pond we were allowed to drink from, a 20 minute bickering argument ensued i said oh heck forget it. Then later, he said "take tivar in and out those trees" so I did, we executed perfect serpentine through planted pines for about 5 minutes. he is back there swatting and cussing and grouching because his horse decided to follow us. He got no film of it to speak of. He did get about three pictures of tivar standing BESIDE a stump, one of him standing BESIDE a fallen tree, just posed still shot like anyone can get on most any trail ride, and a fifteen minute video of me just riding down the trail , focussed mainly on my huge rear end. I concede defeat already! Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
