In Memory Of Wes Veeder...

My Big Brother, Wes Veeder, passed away on December 3rd, 2009. Wes and I weren't that close because we were a lot different. He was outgoing, and I'm not. He doesn't let things get to him, and I do. He was a HUGE football fan (Green Bay Packers), and I didn't get Football at all. He was loud, I was quiet. Though we had our differences and we didn't do a lot together, I love my brother very much. Whether he knows how much I love him or not, I guess I will never know. Right now I am just kinda here. I'm trying to do school work, but my mind keeps wandering.

Wes was my sister's best friend...they talked about everything. So now she is sort of lost without him. I wish I could understand what she is going through so I could better help her during this difficult time.

I turned 16 yesterday, my first birthday that Wes never called me to wish me a "Happy Birthday". The first birthday that he didn't give me a bad time about being into Twilight, or reading so much, being so shy, etc., etc.

The last time I saw Wes was at Thanksgiving. I was wearing my "Team Jacob" shirt and he was giving me such a bad time about being "Team Jacob." He thinks that all movies rated PG 13 were bull...

But Wes is gone now, living with God. I'm sure he and my Grandpa (and of course his dog, Grizzly, and Festuz) are all having a ball up there.

I love you, Wes!

Randa.

For my best friend...

Here is a video of my best friend, Lea and her horse, Eddie. Just a short video to let you know that you're a very good friend, Lea! Thank you for everything you've done for me! =-)

~Randa~

Midnight Ride...

Wow, it's been a while since I posted what Brizzee and I have been doing lately :-) Actually, we haven't been playing nearly as much as I'd like to, but hopefully this week I can organize my schedule with school a little better and then we'll have lots of time to play =-)

Originally, I had been hoping that Thursdays would be a Freestyle day for Brizzee and I. Whenever we play we always do a little bit on the ground and then I get on her bareback just for the fun of it, but we don't really do any of the DIrect, or Indirect Rein or things liks that, so I was hoping that since THursdays aren't a very busy day, we can play with Freestyle then.

Yesterday (again) I was bummed because I was sure that I wouldn't have time to ride her again because I had school and everything else. Well, my mom surprised me! We went to a Team Sorting Practice. Brizzee did really good. At first she was being defaint, fighting against me with the Natural Hackamore, so my mom insisted that I try the Tumb Thumb bit (since she had the bozale or however you spell it). I really didn't want to use a bit, but my mom showed me how to put it on Brizzee.

WOW! The change was very evident. I was as light as I could be on the reins and I used the Direct Rein and she did really good. At first she was confused between bending and the Indirect Rein, but I probably wasn't doing it right in my body. But she didn't argue that much wanting to Ute. She tried every now and then, but she was a lot better. I only sorted twice, and both times Brizzee did really good. When she made a mistake (mainly I was the one making mistakes. She'd go after the cow and then I'd try to bend her...poor girl. lol), I always petted her and said "sorry" for my stupid mistakes.

After the stirrups really started to hurt the side of my foot I got off, put the halter on, and we played on the ground a little bit. I backed her up by her tail!! YEA!!! I had the very end of the 12 foot line in my hand and I put my hand under her tail, and as I backed up I slowly wiggled the rope. She backed up so nicely!!

She loaded and unloaded really nice. After we got back home in the pitch dark and I unsaddled her, my mom gave me a leg up and I rode her around in the dark. Even in the dark; however, Brizzee still knew where that darn grass is. lol. But it was very fun. Her head was down, she was really stretching when she walked, very relaxed. Even more so after she got the GRASS! LOL.

Until next time,
*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*

Goals...

Here are some of my goals with Brizzee & the Parelli Program:

15 Years Old (2009):

1. Officially Pass Level 2 Online

2. Self Assess Level 2 Freestyle

16 Years old (2010):

1. Officially Pass Level 2 & get my certificate and blue string

2. Officially Pass Level 3 in at least Online & Liberty.

3. Start doing a lot more Level 2/3 things in Freestyle & Finess & Liberty

4. Learn to have a lot of patience with any horse, especially Brizzee with grass. lol.

17 Years Old (2011)

1. Officially pass Level 3 and get my certificate and green string.

2. Start playing in a solid Level 3 & 4 level, officially passing Online & Liberty in Level 4.

3. Hopefully go to a Parelli Celebration! :-)

18 Years (2012) & older:

1. If didn't accomplish before, Officially pass Level 3 & get my green string

2. Officially pass Level 4 & get my black string.

3. Hopefully go to a Parelli Celebration with Brizzee. lol!

4. Ride anywhere and everywhere, doing whatever bridle-less & bareback with Brizzee ;-)

Other Parelli Dreams/Goals

1. Be a Celebration Spotlighter.

2. Start my own horse rescue and help all other horses.

3. Major in foals and young weanlings.

4. Help people with their horses.

5. Go to Colorado and take a course! :-)

My dreams are pretty near the same with Mikkah's Journey and Half Pint, but basically it's the same goal, Officially Graduate Level 4!

Savvy On,

*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*

What A Day

Boy, WHAT A DAY! We were running a little behind by the time we got everything together and finished with Breakfast, so I didn't have time to groom Brizzee--she was a little messy. But oh well.

Trailer loadin' went really good this morning. She waited until I got in on the right side before she followed on the left side (we took our two horse straight load trailer). She didn't paw or anything on the L-O-N-G drive up there. But she was very excited to get out of the trailer once we got there.

David gave her the "dope" shot first before I put her in the chute thing, and she followed me right in. She was pretty confident the whole time. It took her a while when we finished to remember how to actually step up into the trailer. lol. I was worried she was going to fall. hehehe. But her teeth were okay. He said there were a few points, and that she chews mainly on her right side, but other then that there were no problems.

After we got back home my mom and I played with her a little bit. My mom helped me "sideways" her towards me, and she didn't really good with that. We ended it where my mom didn't need to help and she took two steps towards me! And then we worked on tapping her feet to lift them. She still either takes a step back or forwards, but it's a start anyways. And we did some Stick to Me at the trot again. She is doing so much better at that! I think she's beginning to trust and look to me as her leader!!! YAY!! Today was a super great day. She was trying so hard to do the right thing when we played with her...and for the very last thing we did, she got a very nice leg massage. She stood completely still, her nose touching the ground as I massaged her legs. It was so cute!

Here are some pics:

Yummy---not. lol.

Savvy Out,

*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*

Today's the day!!

We are just getting ready to leave for the Vet's today =-) I'm so excited. Yesterday Brizzee and I played with the trailer. My mom parked it right on the grass, so of course we all know how that was! lol. Here are the games we played with it:

Squeeze Game - - between me and the trailer.
Circling Game with Change of Direction -- Change of direction between me and the trailer, so kind of the squeeze game.
Sideways Game -- along down the trailer.
Transitions at the Circling Game--She wanted the grass and was annoyed when I kept asking her to go, so she would either trot, or else eat the grass. So I "stopped" her when she was between me and the horse trailer.

It went pretty good. She didn't go into the trailer, but we played around it and stuff and she wasn't unconfident or anythign. She's just stubborn and doesn't want to go in there. lol.
Today we're going to play with it a little more.

We did the Stick to Me at the trot too, yesterday. That was really fun! And we did the sideways game all the way down the semi trailer. That was interesting. Brizzee kept sticking her head under the trailer, like "darn, I'm too big to fit under there." It was funny.

Anyways, I'd better go. I'm so excited about taking her to the Vet today!! :-)

Savvy On,
*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*

Tit for Tat and Indirect Rein

Yay! I played with Brizzee on the ground yesterday, and she actually did a spin! I was so excited. I don't exactly remember how I did it or how it happened, but she spun around in a complete circle and afterwards she ASKED me a question! I was so excited! And we did a few driving things also. I would squeeze her between our truck and trailer and the motor home. I had her go in first and then I followed. She was pretty confident with that. Sometimes she's okay with me walking behind her and "driving" her, other times she just keeps trying to turn her HQ away and face me, that's okay. We're playing with it =-)

Today we did some Freestyle things. That was pretty fun. I accidentally left my Natual Hackamore in my room from practicing with the "rein positions", so I used the Bozale--however you spell it--with her today. It went really good! She was somewhat listening to me, and everything, though she tried to get her few bites of that so delicious green grass. lol.

Walking down the side of the corral Brizzee decided that she wanted to turn back. I asked her to go a little bit and she didn't want to, so we started getting in an argument. After she stopped facing the direction she didn't want to go, I thought I would try the Tit for Tat, and see if I could Indirect rein her and turn her so that we would be facing in the direction she wanted to go. We haven't done a lot of those because I kept getting confused until the Sept. Savvy DVD came. That helped a lot! But she did it! It was wonderful and felt great! Today I think was one of the best Freestyle days we've had in--forever! We didn't do anything fancy or anything, but we felt connected, and in tune. I think I was on my Balance point, and when I wanted to turn left, it felt so natural when I lifted my leg and "looked" with my body. I'm practicing, practicing, practicing with everything in my body before I get on her, and I think it's finally beginning to pay off, I hope ;-)

Tomorrow we MIGHT be herding cows. I'm not sure but a friend of my mom's is hauling cattle into the sale, and they might need our help with the horses to seperate them and everything. It sounds like it'll be fun if we get to help and take the horses. I just have no idea how Brizzee will act in a strange place especially with Ute there. She'll probably go right back to being "herd sweet" and need to stay close with him. But I'll just play with any horse that shows up! And on Thursday Brizzee gets to go to the Dentist...so exciting! My dentist appointment for today was cancelled, the Dentist was sick...YIPPEE! Oh, I mean sorry Mr. Dentist but yippee!! lol.

Savvy On,
*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*
PS. I'm really hoping to get the video done this week, I hope. Whenever I'm playing with Brizzee my mom is never around to film me...I wish I had a younger sibling. lol.

So...

One thing I hate about Autumn / Winter when the weather starts getting cooler, besides the cold, of course. lol. Is the seasonal flu that comes with it! ARGG! I have been sick since Monday with this blasted cold. I think it's finally starting to lift a little bit. I don't know if I'll ever be able to catch my nose or not, but my head isn't pounding anymore and I can stay awake. LOL. We haven't really done anything with the horses this week besides put a very LOOSE web halter on the filly before turning her out in the paddock with our old mare (www.parellifromthegroundup.blogspot.com)

But other then that not much has been going on. When I glimpsed out there this evening I see that my horse is all wooly'd up and looking like a pony. She's so pretty in the spring and summer, but when she gets her winter coat it...not sure. lol. But she's still my pretty girl :-)

Kay, well I gotta take some medicine. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get to play with her a little bit. She's get a "dentist" appointment a week from tomorrow (Thursday). So we're going to do some stuff with the trailer and "simulating" going into the gate / chute thing. Let's see, I can walk her thru, back her in, sideways her, move her forequarters and then her hindquarters...hmm, interesting! lol.

Over and out,
Randa.

Pictures

Here are the pictures I promised!!


We just brought her home today. Check out http://www.parellifromthegroundup.blogspot.com/ to learn more about this weanling!

Now, meet Kaelee Alet:

Isn't she adorable?!

*~Randa~*

SHE'S FINALLY HERE!!

After nine months, and and 5 days over due, my neice finally arrived at 6:20 PM tonight!! YIPPEE! I am so excited, I am an Aunt again. Though I did hear about something very sad today--no, two things, actually, having a new Niece and being another Aunt again is still exciting! We just have to live in the moment, and appreciate what we have, and focus on the happy things, not dwell on the sad thigns, and I am planning on doing just that.

Tomorrow morning my mom and I are probalby going to go in and see my big sis and her new daughter! My sister has a son AND daughter now, how exciting is that? Now she just needs to quit acting as if she is MY mother. lol.

I will post pics of her tomorrow, if my sister says it's okay =-) I love new born babies, they're so cute. Then agian, my year and a half year old nephew is pretty dang cute too.

Tomorrow evening we will probably pick up Mikkah, the filly. Everything is happening all at once! This week has just gone by so fast, and it's been so busy. Hopefully now that baby is here and hopefully after we bring Mikkah home tomorrow, hopefully next week we can all relax, breathe, and get caught up with things lol.

Boy, I do want that Babysiting job (thankfully they haven't called me yet!) for the money and stuff so that I can start saving to go to the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, I really don't want to do that or have time really to do that. I can already hear my sister asking me to stay with her and help her with her two kids, but I don't think I can do that.

Though this is only my first year of High School, I still have my whole future planned. I'm hopign to save up enough money to go to the University of Idaho in Moscow, and take a Writing, Editing, Theatre, and some kind of horse course. I want to at least get a Bachelor's degree in Editing so that I can be an editor after I'm grown up. That will hopefully bring in enough money to help other horses using Parelli Natural Horse Man Ship. I don't think I want to be a Parelli Professional because I don't think I woudl get along to good with other people, I'm not very good with people in person. But I still want to go as far as I can with Parelli and help horses, so that's what I'm shooting for: becoming an editor, edit books professionally, and of course, continue writing books. Being an actress would be nice, but that's more of a "fantasy dream" than an actaul "dream". Being a writer and editor is more important right now then being an actress.

But anywho, I promise I will post pics today or tomorrow of my new niece if my sister okays it, and I will keey y'all posted on that and Mikkah. I'm hoping we'll bring her home tomorrow, my fingers are crossed!

Savvy On,
~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~

Calm, Confident = Left Brain

WOW!! Holy crap, I can't beleive that it's 9:10 on Monday morning already! It seemed like time has just gone by like taht. I'm beginning to wonder if it's the end of November here already from the six inches of SNOW we got yesterday, Oct. 4th! Boy, the weather is crazy.

Anyhoo, I didn't have anyone to record me playing with Brizzee on Thursday, or Friday, so I don't ahve the video yet. But I'm hoping that sometime this week, after the snow clears (Snow!), we'll get 'er done.

On Saturday we took Brizzee to the Team Sorting. That was an interesting/fun experience! She didn't really load at first. She got a little Right Brain, and was trying to push past me and stuff. It wasn't helping that my mom was kind standing on the side and behind her with the Carrot Stick. I didn't really like that either. But I finally went in the two horse trailer on the right side, and then Brizzee came right on up on the left side without any problem! Wow! Is she following / trusting her leader? =-)

At the Team Sorting she did really good. She was calm, and pretty confident. Except she was lazy, as always. I used the Bozzel on her though. The Natural Hackamore works really good around here, but when we go somewhere I need something a little stronger then that, though I hate to use it. But she did very good, and was very light and responsive. She was lazy, so my mom had me put on some spurs!! I hated that idea, but they were the kind of spurs that only has a solid ball on the end, so they weren't too bad. I kept riding with my heels and spurs pointingout so I woudln't even accidentally nudge her. But the difference was I had those on was amazing! If I wanted to turn to the right, I would just have to turn my body in that direction, direct rein, and nudge her just a little with the spur and she turned really well! Actaully, before we left I didn't even have to use the spur at all. I don't want to use the spurs again though, no way. I can't wait until I'm able to get the Cradle Bridle with the C3 bit. I think that would do Brizzee and I wonders. The Savvy Club DVD about Rein Position really helps too. I like what Pat said about the only thing you need to know about riens is that you have a right, and a left.

While we were at the Team Sorting I had put my coat up on a fence, and after I rode Brizzee aroudn a little, I rode her up to my coat and grabbed it. She sidepassed and backed up a little bit, but other then that she was fine. I rubbed her all over with it, and then tossed it to the ground and she didn't even lift her head or anything. That was exciting!

Today I need to call our vet in Albion and set an appointment to get her teeth floated. She hasn't had that done yet this year and when she chews she tips her head way over to the side, and the few times when she said "cheese" yesterday I noticed a big red sore on her top lip. I think she must have gotten kicked or something by one of the horses, so we are going to take her down to the vet sometime and get her all fixed up! :-)

Well, now that fun is over so I guess I shoudl get crackin' on school. It would be so nice if we only had to have school subjects on horses/ parelli (and Twilight too!).

One more thing, we didn't bring Gunsmoke, which my mom is thinking about calling her Mikkah now, home yesterday like mom had originally planned cause of the snow. She's hoping that Wednesday will be better and we can bring her home then. It's funny how time seems to fly by so fast, and then when you want it to fly past, it seems like it's taking FOREVER.

I may have a babysitting job now too. A friend of ours at the Team Sorting knows some people that are looking for a babysitter, so I gave him my number. At least if I do get this babysitting job, at least I will get paid. My brother and sister don't pay me because they figure that I'm family anyways. So yeah, it sounds like my winter is beginning to get planned out for me too.

Savvy On,
*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*

PICTURES

First of all, here are some pictures of the weanling I am going to start playing with/teaching. So far we are thinking about calling her Gunsmoke. We haven't played with her yet, just took pictures. Right now she is out in a pen with five other horses, and they want to soak up all the attention. lol. And her mama doesn't really like people, we've noticed, so she always stays away, but here are some pics...

So brave, she's smelling a human's hand!!!

She's hiding between her mama (left) and her 3 and half year old sister (right)

She was a bit curious about the camera I was holding.

Peek - A - Boo

That's the mama and Gunsmoke's nose. Mama allmost looks sad...

Boy, I can't wait till we bring her "home"! She's going to be so fun to play with, and I'm sure I will learn A LOT with her!! ;-)

Now, for the rest. hehe. I've been so excited the last few days about getting enough time to play with Brizzee and stuff that I've sorta, kinda, just a little bit got behind in school. So, here is my plan for right now:

1. In the early mornings do simple subjects in school until the horses are done eating, and then go out and play with Brizzee, Gunsmoke, and whoever else.

2. Since I learn better in the afternoon (and I can do stuff on the computer after dark) I will do school after noon, when I finsihed playing with the horses. I will do the subjects I have tests, assignments, etc in first, and then the rest. Maybe I can get a full week in Algebra done 1 day, and the same with other subjects so then maybe I could get a head...maybe.

3. Depending on how soon I get done with school, I will either play with the horses some more in the evening, clean up my room or around the computer (my "workspace"), or else I will write! So, hopefully that will work out and I will get everything accomplished that I need to. But darn, it's so hard to get your mind out of horses and Parelli and into school...=-(

Later on today (after I finish school), I'm going to go play with Brizzee some more, and I'm hoping that my mom will camcord some of our play sessions, and then I can download it onto YouTube! I will keep ya'll posted.

*~Randa~*

Our Progress

Here is our Online and Liberty Self Assessment Checklist as of 9-29-09. I cannot do any of the patterns yet in Liberty.

We're slowly progressing, a little! We have done everythign in Level 1 with Online and Liberty!! :-) I'm excited about that. Now we are solidly playing in Level 2!! Freestyle and Finesse aren't at Level 1 yet, but we're slowly getting there.

My goal is to scan these assesment checklist every month and see how much we've progressed! The next play session with Brizzee I am hoping to do a lot of things in Level 2 Online. We aren't nearly as far as a lot of the other "Savvy Kids" out there, but we're coming along slowly :-)

Savvy On,

*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*

PS. Tomorrow hopefully I will have pictures of the weanling!! We still haven't set up a place for her yet, and today it is so windy outside... :-(

It's Not About The Grass

Today was interesting and very fun!! I got done with school--all except one subject, and that's Modern World Studies, but I don't have a test for that until the end of the week--so I got Brizzee and we played outside! We couldn't play in the paddock, because our Mustang is out as well as all the other horses, so it's a bit crowded! And everyone--except of course Brizzee--likes to hang around people and they are in the way, so I decided to take her out, having the grass issue in mind.

You always read things like; "It's not about the trailer," "It's not about the tarp," "It's not about the grass", and I *thought* I had that drilled in my mind...WRONG! lol. So today I set up three cones, had a grain bucket on one end, and of course the grass on the other. We did weaves and then she ate grass for a while, and we did sideways away from and towards the grass. She really got to trotting and going fast towards the grass, so that was interesting. And after we played a few more things, we played on the grass.

If we were playing the Circling Game and she ate the grass, I wouldn't ask her to stop eating and then go again, instead I would just ignore her eating grass and be like; "You'd better get going." And she did! Then it dawned on me; "IT'S NOT ABOUT THE GRASS!!" DUH!! My, my, my. So we really had fun with that. She went sideways a long way away from me with the motorhome in front of her and my feet stayed stilL. Sidewaysing away without anything in front of her is a little challenge. She likes to go forward a lot, but for the most part she is goign sideways, and she's trying so hard, I love her to death.

After a few games on the grass, and she actually came all the way into me without stoping to snatch a bite, I decided that I would ride her bareback a little. Well, first of all I tried hopping onto her neck, and the wasn't working. So then I tried leading her up to soemthing, but there wasn't really anythign I could lead her up to so I tried to get on her neck again...such a sweet girl. She lifted me up and I manuevered to her back, swung my leg over, and just as I was getting ready to push myself back, she decided she just had to get a mouthful of weeds...well, I fell off. I did a summersault over her head and landed on the gravel. She just jumped away and braced, her eyes were all big and white, and then she slowly started blinking. Then I lead her up to a trailer, hoping that it would stay down on its tongue, which thank goodness it did, and hopped onto her back. I think that's the most "enjoyable" ride we've had most of the summer. She didn't fight wanting the grass. She pushed it everynow and then, but I didn't get in a fight, I just slightly moved the rein (tied the 12' to the halter) and she'd look away, and she really followed my body language and pressure today, so I'm excited. I don't know what happened to change her attitude about needing the grass while I ride her, but I'm excited!

I just can't beleive "It's not about the grass!" clicked into my mind until today, but duh! It's obvoius. I don't how many times Linda talked about it or whatever and it's like; "Yes, but how do you get your horse away from the grass??!" YOU DON'T! You just ignore it. She was looking at me funny too...I'm excited that that finally clicked, now I wonder how many other things I hear them say constantly until "OH! I got it." strikes home!

Day after tomorrow we will probably move the round pen up closer to the house somewhere to put the 5 month old filly, Gunsmoke in. My mom and I both will be playing with the filly; she hasn't even had a halter on her before, so she will be raised Parelli. I'm excited to see the difference between how it is playing with her, then how it is playing with Brizzee...major difference I'm sure. But I'm so happy! Every since I can remember I've wanted to play and "train" a foal, and now I get my chance, it's awesome!!

I only have a dentist appointment tomorrow, and then another one 2 and half weeks from today, and that's when I get my parmenant crowns on, so hopefully I will be dentist-free for 6 months afterwards! Unfortunately, lol, I still have school, but there's nothing I can do about that. School, babysitting, horses, and everything else---as Linda would say, "Oh Boy!" ;-)

Savvy On,
~Brizzee~ & ~Randa~

Hanging In There Like An Ape...

Interesting title, eh? lol. The other day I went out and played with Brizzee. We had a lot of fun. We just basically just hung out, did a few things, whatever, walked around the corral. She offered a very nice circling game at the trot, and did a change of direction very smoothly. She slowed to a walk, and stopped and looked at me for a few seconds before she turned teh other one and began to trot again, so I ended it there. And I ran backwards and she trotted up to me, that was really neat :-)

The most exciting thing that Brizzee did was she went sideways from me standing in zone 5! I was so exciting. I had tried doing it next to her, but she got unconfident so I stepped back and was going to have her turn and face me, but when I flicked the carrot stick she started to go sideways, so I took it and went sideways with her--only behind her. So that was really cool :-) She's such a patient horse with me.

After we played some more games on the ground I thought I'd try to get on he from neck--yeah, not happenin'. She was so patient with me though, her ape lol. She put her head to the ground, her noise touching, and I jumped up on her neck, and she lifted it up, and then I just hung there, kicking me feet around, and then she would lower her neck and look at me like; "Are you goin' to get on or what?" I tried that a couple of times and then my arms slipped and I fell right on my rump, I thought my mom was going to die laughing so hard. Brizzee, well she just looked at me, such a sweet ole' girl. So I ended up leading her over to the fence and got on her bareback that way. She still likes to go to the gate, but we're getting a little better. I'm making a pattern where we walk from one end of the pen to the other not too far away from the gate. Every now and then she argues, but little by little, it's getting better. I think that I just need to work on my body langauge more. That has to be it, why she keeps going to the gate for safety because she doesn't know what I want because I don't have the right body energy. And Linda makes it look so easy :-(

Well, I'm off to do school now. My first year in High School, and so far it's hectic. I have Journalism as my elective--I'm not sure whether I like it or not yet, but it's somethign, I guess. Next year I think I will have Computer Literacy or somethign like that.
Savvy On,
~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~

Think it's been long enough?

Holy toleto!! I haven't been on here FOREVER!! So sorry about that, but I've been busy, busy, busy! I've been babysitting my niece and nephew, I've been busy helping my mom with things, busy with a few Team Sorting, busy farming, and everything else. Holy crap! We've just been flooded with things in July. I've gone camping with my sister for one weekend, then went camping with my dad for a whole week, got back just in time to help my mom totally clean and arrange the house for a StemTech meeting (if anyone is interested in StemEnhance, StemFlo, StemSport, StemEquine, or StemPets, please go to www.roya.stemtechbiz.com to learn more information about that), and then it's been so busy lately.

I haven't have much time to do much with Brizzee lately. I've played with her a little bit, but not very long, and I've ridden her a few times, but nothing major happening there. I'm hoping (fingers crossed) that things will settle down here shortly, and that will give me more time to play with her and a new member of our equine family, Half Pint. I rode Half Pint a little bit today for the first time iwth my mom leading her. She still needs to gain a lot of weight. So anyhoo, just wanted to give a quick update. Hopefully I'll be able to keep regular posts! :-)

Savvy On,
~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~

Half Pint

Oh boy! It's been a long time since I've been on here. We've been very, very busy lately. First we had to sell our bulls, then get hay, writing, 4-wheeling, playing with the horses. Ugh, it's just been very, very busy here. Oh yeah, and did I mention buying a new horse?!

We bought a little pony a few days ago. I think she's about 11.3 hands, I think that's what she measured. She weighs 500 and some pounds, poor thing. She is just skin and bones. Her owners had to sell her as they coudln't afford hay for her anymore, so my mom bought her, for the grandkids, maybe. She's five years old, green broke. She seems very sweet though. She just needs a little TLC. She needs to gain weight, and her hooves need to get fixed. We have to take her to the vet soon to get her teeth floated as well. But she is such a sweet girl. She doesn't seem to afraid of things, she seems curious, and confident. I think she's a LBE, but haven't done a chart on her yet, just guessing. For now we are calling her Half Pint, but that may change. Here are some pics of her:

I love her small little head.

She is so skinny, poor girl. i can count every rib.... :(

So far we are just taking her out to eat grass, taking her for a few walks, but we're still letting her settle in. We have been able to put fly spray on her. She doesn't really like it too well, but she tolerates it. She's such a sweet girl. Probably when she gets a little more weight on her I'll start playing with her a little more, playing the Seven Games and stuff. So I'm very excited about that!! I can't get too attached though because if she doesn't work out for the grandkids we'll probably have to take her to the sell :-( But I think she'll be really good with the kids. They cam out a few days ago and lead her around. She followed them willingly, was very careful. And when they walked away from her she just stared after them. It was cute. I think she'll be really good for them.

I took Brizzee to the Team Sorting last week. That was really cool. She was calm while I groomed her and saddled her, she wasn't whinnying and going around all nervous (she always does when we go to take them somewhere). I was just getting ready to load her into the stock trailer when mom says. "We aren't taking Ute." I think my mouth hit the ground. I was nervous, especially since we weren't tkaing him. I figured Brizzee would go crazy there without him, as when we take him before with Brizzee she has to be right next to him.

But after a few tries she loaded up just fne, didn't go crazy in the trailer. We got to the arena, and unloaded. I was immediately thinking; "Okay, she's going to burst out of this trailer, run around, whinny, go crazy". But guess what? I've never seen her so CALM before!!

I played the circling game for a while, did the Pre Flight checcks. She was calm, willing. She kept looking around at things, but she wasn't going anywhere. I rode her inside for the first time, she remained calm. She was just...different that night. It was liek I was riding a different horse. She plodded along, trotted when I asked. In with the cows she did pretty good.

Then a foal came in. It was so funny, Brizzee watched the foal all night. Her ears were forward, watching it intently, and she kept nickering at it. It was so cute. When we were walking away from it she would turn her head clear around, watching it very closely. It was so cute! We even did a little bit of a sidepass and things.

After a while I unsaddled her. I was having trouble standing on the fence, so I did something totally different. I asked her to lower her head, like Linda did on one Savvy Club dvd. And once again, I tried to get on from her neck. She looked at me as if saying; "Well come on." I jumped over her neck, locking my elbows. She put her head up, and then I just froze like; "What now?" She put her head a little further back, I slide onto her back and swung my leg over. I was so happy!!

And then I rode her around bareback, that was really good. She wasn't laying her ears back at the other horses at all, she was calm, it was amazing. I even knelt on her, and rode in with the cows. It was awesome, awesome, awesome. I felt so excites, happy, warm! I felt like we were actually getting somewhere, and I was just really happy with her.

Then the grandkids came out a few days ago to ride. I think she wasn't feeling well that day because she was really calm witht he kids, and when my brother rode her all she would do was trot, really fast. Now there is a part of her hoof right next to the frog that is longer then her outside wall...OUCH! We are calling a farrier to come out and trim, but he hasn't called us back yet. And I'm not wearing my cowboy boots now because there is a pecie of leather on the heal that came loose and is causing me blisters cause it rolls up, so now I have to wait to do anything more with the horses till that gets fixed...ugh. And I have to babysit, and a lot of other stuff. Busy, busy, busy!!

Maybe sometime things will calm down, I hope. lol.

Savvy On,

~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~ & *Half Pint*

Very Fun Arabian Mare For Sale

Hey everybody, I'm back from camping! I was back on Sunday, just haven't posted yet. I'm afraid I have some bad news though. We are really tight on money right now for hay, so unfurtunately we have to sell our 12 year old Arabian mare, Storm. She is a RBE, very sweet girl. For more info on her please go to http://www.otherhorsenalities.blogspot.com/. She needs a good, loving, and caring Parelli home. We are asking $600.00 for her, but price is not set in stone. And if you are interested in an old pick up or semi please go to http://www.pickup-semi4sale.blogspot.com/ to get info on that too.

Okay, now for an update on everything! Our camping trip was pretty fun. I missed my mom and Brizzee the whole time. lol. But it was okay. It was raining off and on Wednesday, and Thursday. But on Friday it was really good. It was all blue skies, then it would cloud up, sprinkle for a while, and then everything would clear up. It was okay, weather wise.

On Thursday we went for a 4-wheeler ride. Dad wanted to take the camera's, but he decided not to because we didn't really figure we'd see anything except deer, maybe, if that. Boy, what a mistkae that had been! We saw something that you would never expect to see in the South Hills. Any guesses? We saw two (2) MOOSE!! I think it was a cow and calf. The calf wasn't very small, but not as small as the other one.

So that was cool! Then we saw a Jack Rabbit, deer, lots of groudn squirrels, blue and red/orange birds. Yeah, it was okay. I'll post more pics tomorrow but I'm in a bit of a hurry now because we are going to go to the sale tonight and sell two of our Bulls. How fun...

And on...Tuesday I rode Brizzee. That was pretty cool. I used the Bozal, Bosale...however you spell that thing. It's the rawhide thing that goes over thier nose, there we go. Anyways, a friend let me borrow that from the last Team Sorting we went to (boy, what a mess) because Brizzee wasn't minding me at all with the Natural Hackamore I got from Parelli, so anyways, I rode her in that on Tuesday, and then mom wanted me to use spurs on her...Spurs! Yikes!

She did respond a lot better to them. I was very gentle with them, and she turned her hindquarters a lot faster with that, but I found that I kept bumping her with 'em...ooopppps. So mom took them off, yipee. And then we jsut rode up and down the road out here. We walked, trotted, did a very nice, fancy shuffle, and we cantered a few times. SHe even cantered on the left lead once!! Yippee!

She kept wanting to go to the grass though, but she was a lot better with that too, maybe because of the bo...the thing on her nose (lol). And my mom was helping me with some stuff and I realized something. She was talking about something and it made me tense a litlte and I got a little...just a little angry. She said that someone said soemthign about my horse, although she didn't tell me who or what they said, only that she wasn't going to tell me what the person said so I could prove t hat person wrong without knowing what that person said. And that made me a little angry cause of course I'm thinking; "Soemone said somethign bad about MY HORSE!" And right after I tensed and got mad like that up came brizzee's head and lip, adn then she went off to the grass.

Everytime I got just a little tense, or thought about somethign really hard, without doing anything in my body, she'd do it!! AMAZING! We stood for a long time, away from the grass, and mom's like; "Think grass, think grass!" So I did, I closed my eyes, and thought grass. Brizzee stood there a few minutes before she turned around and went to the grass. Then I thought "mom" and after a few minutes she took a few steps towards mom, but she couldn't leave the grass! lol. So I guess we really are in tune with each other much more then I thought...hmm. Interesting. As soon as I'd think; "Okay, you can have the grass." Boom, she was there. hehehehe. No wonder we've had a lot of tough times. As mom pointed out. "She's like a teenager randa. Remember what you and your sister were like? Well, that's how you and Brizzee are." ANd she was exactly right. Instead of; "Mom told you not to do that! I'm telling." "Oh no you're not..." etc. etc. It's; "Why should I do that. Hum." And Brizzee will put he rhead up and lift her lip. Hehehehe.

Boy, I never thought a horse would act like a teenager, but of course mine would. lol. She's 13, i'm 15..hmm....HOW INTERESTING!

So we're going to have a lot of fun playing with that.

And then I took the saddle of and rode her bareback. I can find my balance point almost instantly bareback. She trots and I don't feel off balance...yippee. But with the saddle...mainly my feet in the stirrups, is what throughs me off, but we're playing with it.

Okay, I've got to go now. I'll post pics hopefully tomorrow or another day. And again, if you are interested in a RBE/LBE arabian mare, please go to http://www.otherhorsenalities.blogspot.com/ to get info on her.

Thank you,
~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~

Bridle-LESS!!

Well, I wasn't going to post anything more until I got back from camping, but I played with Brizzee this morning, and it went really well!! We had so much fun, it was a blast! We played with the tarp, and I sat on her bridle-less, and then my mom handed me the carrot stick and we just played around a little bit, and she did really good! She did better bridle-less and with the Carrot Sticks then she does with the Natural Hackamore and halter......? Hmm. But today was a blast, it was FUN!! Here's some pics:

Hehehe, she looks so funny with my jacketon her ears.

No bridle, halter, nada.

That was really fun. After a while my mom started saying to go along the fence, so we did. We'd stop every now and then, and she even backed up!! We moved her forequarters, and then we went up to the gate and move her hindquarters around her forequarters. She did really good with that.

And then I got off her, trying something new. I kept sliding backwards, and went off on her rump. She didn't swish her tail, lift her head or anything. I was really surprised with that. I got that idea from Lea's video, thanks for the idea! And then we tried "hugging", got that idea from Hannah's video. lol. I'm kinda clueless, and then I watch everybody else's video and I think, "I wonder if I can do that? I wonder how you do that? Hmm." lol. But anyways, I hugged Brizzee, reached into my pocket and offered her a treat. She actually reached around, hugging me to get the treat. I was happy. My horse hugged me! lol.

Then we just went for a walk up the road, letting her eat some grass and be a horse. It was a very fun day. Now I have to get ready to go camping. I'm going to really miss Brizzee while I'm gone, especially after our Bridle-less day!! K, talk to ya'll later whenever I get back.

Savvy On,

~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~

"Reach for the stars"...up on your horse's back. lol"

Laying on her, getting further and further back, getting ready to slid off her rump.

WWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Camping

Well, I'm going to go camping tomorrow, not sure when I'll be back. I'm excited, but also a little sad because I won't be with Brizzee for a while, but she'll be here when I get back.

We went to a Team Sorting "competition" last Saturday on the 6th. I'll post more about that when I get back. But today I've got lots, and lots, and lots of packing and things to do, and I'm also hoping to go out and play with Brizzee later on today too. :-) So busy, busy, busy, busy. But I will post more about the Team Sorting when I get back from camping, whenever that may be.

Savvy On,
~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~

In Memory of Tike

She died today. My mom and I were on our way to town when we found her laying on the road. She was hit. There were seven kittens laying around her, so apparently she was pregnent. We buried her and the kittens all together. I'm not that much of a cat person, but Tike was a really good cat, I'll miss her. Today has been a very sad day.

Randa.

Busy, Busy, Busy!!

Oh, my, my, my, where do I start? I have been so busy these last few days, I don't even know where to begin...I even forgot what day what happened on. lol.

Wednesday: I'm not sure if this is the right day or not, but oh well. My brother called, asking if it was okay if he came out with his two kids to ride. So we were busy with that on Wednesday. So my neice and nephew rode Brizzee while I lead her around. She did really good, except for wanting the grass. I felt so bad. Here she is, wanting this green grass, and I just keep teasing her with it by walking over and over the grass...I felt kinda bad, but after a while she stopped trying...as hard. Whenever she saw a chance of getting a mouthful she took it. lol.
But she did really, really good with that.
I was a little scared at first because it's been a long time since any young person has ridden her, but she did pretty good. My arm got really tired though from keeping her head up. So then my brother offered to lead her around.
I sat down in the dirt and watched. I feel terrible for being so happy about this, I know it's wrong, but Brizzee did a lot better with me leading her then with my brother. She woudln't go, she just stood there, and even when he tried to stop her from getting the grass, she still got to it. And then he stopped and she wouldn't stop. LOL. I know it's bad, but it took a lot I had to keep from smiling about that. I don't know why, it's terrible, but she does the same thing with my mom. She doesn't mind that well either. But she does pretty good with me so I guess I must be doing something right :-)
Anyways, my brother didn't lead her around very long before he gave her back to me. hehehehe. So that was a fun/tiring day. After the kids had enough my brother rode Ute, my mom's horse and I rode Brizzee. We went on a quick trail ride, and that was fun. Except Brizzee has a really short stride compared to Ute, and she was really tired, so even though they were both walking, Brizzee and I were a few feet behind him so when my brother and I talked we had to practically scream to hear each other. And on the way back my brother cantered Ute, and Brizzee decided that she would canter. That was fun! I felt really balanced. My feet were forward...I think, and I felt a little more secure then I have before. So maybe I'm getting a little better at keeping my feet forward, I don't know.
Here are some pics of the kids riding;



My brother and my nephew.

And my mom leading Ute with my neice.

Mom, Ute, and my neice.

My brother, and my nephew on Brizzee...of course.

Look at that face!

Thursday: We went to Team Sorting Practice. Oh, Brizzee was so fun! I think she was a little LBE when Ute was around, and then when he wasn't she was a little RBE, but she did really good. At first she coudln't stand still unless Ute was there, so then we rode around, trotted, and then we stood away from him. She stood calmly for about 2.5 seconds before she started whinnying for him, going towards him. It's a challenge, but we're getting better! I guess it's kinda like me being afriad of Tornadoes. My mom knows that there isn't going to be a tornado, she doesn't know what I'm so worried about it and she thinks it's silly, but I'm still scared that there's going to be a Tornado.

So it's the same with me and Brizzee. Nothing is going to happen to her away from Ute (with her anyways. She might buck me off but she'll be okay. lol), and I don't understand why she is so ancy away from him, but she can't help it. The only thing we can both do to get over it is for one, UNDERSTAND each other, find a way to overcome it, and OVERCOME it. I'm not going to "make" her stay away from Ute. We'll go away from him, come back, go away, and just work with it a little at a time.

Or I might try also that when she's around Ute, we'll do things. We'll do Sideways, Backs up, we'll do all kinds of things, and then when we are away from Ute, we'll just stand, relax, and do calming things. That might work...HMM.

But she did really good in with the steers. She went away from Ute a lot better, and she was really good with the steers. She was quick too. When we get a cow out from the bunch and he starts to go back in, sometimes she'll trot and go after him. But it's so funny, she'll lay her ears back at the cows, and if they don't move she snakes her head aroudn at them. lol. I think she actually enjoys doing this! =-)

Friday: Didn't do anything with her on Friday...I don't think. Hmm.

Saturday: We got hay on Saturday. Didn't do anything with her. But my mom's and I Level 1 Certificates and Red Strings arrived!!! Yay!! I all ready have my certificate in a frame all ready. I'm trying to decide if I should put my red string in a safe place and send it to Ginny Sue...or if I should use it. I don't want it to get all muddy though, but I would like to use it...hmm. Oh, it's been terrible weather. Basically since Thursday evening it's just thunderstorms, thunderstorms, thunderstorms...YUCK!!

Sunday: I read through all of my book, A Different Life, revised it.

Monday: Holy cow! Well, I got a President's Educational Award...hmm. It even has the President's signature, and I have absolutely no idea what that is for. Maybe all the Middle School people get it in their last year of Middle School before the go into High School, I don't know.

It was crappy weather so I did more with my books. And when I went outside to water the horses yesterday evening Brizzee was looking at me, and the weather wasn't that bad.

I got the carrot stick and just went out there with her. Didn't halter her or anything. We did the Squeeze Game, picked up her front feet from the same side, massaged her everywhere. And I just wanted to see if she would line up to the cement water trough at liberty, and she did. She just stood there too so what did I do? I took advantage of it. I dropped the carrot stick, got on the cement, she continued to stand there, so I just laid across her. No halter, rope, or anything on her. The only thing I grabbed going there was the carrot stick.

She just stood there while I laid across her. So I sat on her. She stood there and I just petted her. She walked over to the fence, stood there for a few minutes, stood by the gate, went back to the fence, and just stood there. I sat on her BRIDLE-LESS!! FINALLY!! She didn't feel stiff or anything. SHe just does what she usually does. Stands in one place for a while, moves to another place, stands, etc. But I was extremely happy. I sat on her BRIDLE-LESS!! I'm so happy!!

Today: I did nothing with her today. I was going to but we were planting the garden, and now I need to go out and do chores. And we're supposed to still have thunderstorms for most of the week, so yippee...not. But it's a good time to work on my books and crochet anyways.

My German Shepherd, Kiah "Big Dawg", and then our little Bichone Frise. Lil Buddy. They are buds and play with each other. Kiah is so careful with him. It's cute.

And our cat, Tike. She and Buddy kinda grew up together, so they play with each other. And now she's pregnant, so we're going to have kittens! I'm excited for that, but my mom is dreading it. lol.

Savvy On,

~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~

Frustration > Patience > Fun = SAVVY!!

That pretty much sums up Brizzee's and I playday yesterday. lol. We did a lot of new things yesterday. I messaged her back legs for a long time, almost got done on my knees!! A little more confident around her back legs, but not quite one hundred percent yet, but it'll come in time. Then I haltered her from my KNEES!! That was fun. She didn't pull up her head, back up, moved side to side or anything. She just lowered her head and stood there while I put the halter on, sweet girl.
And then we did a lot of different things with the games!!

Friendly: Leg massage, helicopter in zone 3, 4 , and a little bit in 5!! :) She wasn't real confident with that. She put her head up and her ears twitched back and she kept looking at me from the corner of her eye, but she did really good. And then we played with the tarp and I was able to rub her with the tarp, and after a few minutes I had the full tarp laying over her!! YAY!! It went from her rump, to the very back of her ears in zone 2, just draping over her. When I went to pull it up over her head she freaked out a little. I pulled it off and just as I did the wind came up and she spoked out from under it, and then she just stopped, looked at me with the "orange flying monster", and then she finally licked and came up. So that was exiting.
Then I had her walking over the tarp and stopping on it. She could stop with both of her front feet on it, but she couldn't keep her back feet on it. She kept moving away from it. But that's okay, we're playing with it! :-)

Driving Game: We did the Figure 8 with the cones, and then we did the figure 8 with the cones on the tarp at the walk. She was pretty confident with that. And I tried doing some driving her from Zone 3/4/5. She was okay in Zone 3, but then zone 4/5 is when she really started getting confused. She kept turning aroudn and coming up to me, or else she would just stand there and back up. I had just wanted to see how she'd do and what it's like. I probably gave her mixed signals or something. It's different though.

Yo-Yo Game: I backed Brizzee out of our little barn thing, brought her back in, yo yoed her out again, brought her in several times. And then we switched. Then I backed her in, brought her back out, and then backed her back in again. That was FUN!!

Circling Game: We did a transition, two change of directions and then she even did one full lap of cantering with the Circling Game! Yippee!! She was even confident. It used to be I'd ask her for the canter on the ground with something and she'd go Right Brain and have to move and run, and run, and run and she couldn't even look at me. But yesterday she did one lap, confidently, stopped when I glared at her, turned and came into me, licked, and then of course examined me for her treat. Silly goose. And we did the Circling Game where she had to move around the cones, and over the tarp. She'd sometimes go around the tarp, cut between the tarp and myself, and she knocked a few cones over. But I didn't care where she went, just as long as she watched out for them. That was fun!!

Sideways Game: Oh goodness, where do I begin with this? lol. We sideways around the cement water thing, she did pretty good. And we sideways down the fence towards the other fence and when the other fence got close, she went a little Right Brain, ran away, and then stopped and stared at the fence. We played with that a little more. She'll be okay up to a certain point going towards the fence,and then she just runs. So then I squeezed her between myself and the fence, thinking maybe that was the problem, and she did okay. She kept trotting through the squeeze so we continued playing with it until she could go through the squeeze at the walk confidently and calmly with her head down. And then we tried the Sideways towards the fence and the same thing happened.
So then I thought we'd try to do sideways towards. She didn't even budge. hehe. So the I tried to just her Zone 4 to turn to me. At first she would try, and I'd reward her as soon as she tried, and then she would just stand there with that; "Not going to do it!" Look on her face. She was being defiant. So we just played around that, tried it again, she took ONE step towards me with zone 4, and then we went to something else.

Odd: I got down on my knees, picked up her leg and brought it down giving her a treat. That went okay. Her knee was kinda close to the ground, but not really, but she didn't pull her leg, or act defiant or anything. She just reached aroudn with her neck, took the treat, and then I put her hoof back down on the ground easily, massaged her legs. I was really tempted to go under her belly, but I didn't.
And then I tapped her legs to pick them up. She finally remembered to stand still. She's so funny. She'll lift her left leg real easy, leave it in the air for a while and then set it down gently. But with her right hoof, she'll pick it up, put it down quickly, and it'll be in a different spot then what it was in before, but that's okay.

And then we did a little bit at liberty. We just walked around together, and even trotted...towards the gate of course. lol. And then I put the 12 foot line on her, hopped up on her back and we rode around for a while. As usual, she kept going towards the gate.

I'm trying to figure that out. Everytime I ride her, inside the pen she goes to the gate, no matter what pen we are in, and what's on the other side of the gate. And then when we go out into the yard, she goes to the gate again to go into the paddock, so we go through the gate into the paddock, she goes back to the gate again...hmm. I'm trying to figure out what it is about the gate the she likes so much.

But we had a lot of fun today. Everytime I would begin to feel frustrated, I took a deep breath, and just hugged Brizzee. And when I did she didn't really hug me back, but she did do something that she's never done before ;-) She kinda tucked her chin over my shoulder...sweet. I promised her that I wouldn't let anything come between us. No man is going to come between us, another horse isn't going to come between us, NOTHING is going to come between my horse and I, nothing.

And then I felt better, got my patience back, we played again. And that happened several times, but I was able to get my frustration under control and got patience, and in all and all it turned out to be a very fun & savvy day!!

And then I went out to play with Sugar, our friend's horse. You can check out my other blog www.otherhorsenalities.blogspot.com for that.

Savvy On,
~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~
PS. Only 177 more days until New Moon (the second movie in the Twilight Saga) comes out in Theaters!! hehehe.

Progress!!

Ugh, today is horrible, just horrible. It started off really nice, and now it's windy, windy, windy, windy!! Oh, and let's not forget the thunder clouds and thunder at times. It's terrible. Dirt is everywhere. Oh well.

Well, yesterday I played with Brizzee a little bit in the morning, it was all ready hot! It went okay. We did the Figure 8, Weave, Circling Game, and some other fun stuff. It went okay, I guess. I was getting really hot, Brizzee didn't want to do anything, so we ended it there and I did some other things for the rest of the day. Here's some pics of us doing the Figure 8:

After the sunset last night my mom and I went outside to play with Sugar and Ute. I was going to ride Sugar a little bit and then mom was thinking about goin on a trail ride depending on how well she did. Well we got out there and our friend was there who owns her, so we started talking to him and he had fed Sugar so she was eating.

So after I few minutes I went and got Brizzee. I didn't really know what to do with her, just mosey. I think that is the funniest time we have ever had together! We did the Figure 8, trotted around, did some other things that were fun, and then I hopped on her bareback.

Last night was a super neat night. I had nothing planned, and we just did some fun things and it went really good!! She was actually I think interested!! So from now on when I go out and play iwht her we'll just do whatever, and not even caring what we do or accomplish.

I was looking for her previous owner's address tonight because I want to write him a letter and thank him for letting my buy his horse. Even though we don't have very good days sometimes, and then other days we have great days, she is a great horse and I'm sure that in time (like a few years) we'll be able to do anything together!! I just need to enjoy the time I have with her and just do whatever we feel like...I think. Parelli Natural Horse Man Ship really isn't about the horse, it's about you. You go through all these thinking stages, you go through different things, and you need to figure out what your horse needs and become part horse. Everyday I think about this program, what I'm doing, what I need to do differently to help Brizzee more. And it changes regularly, of course, but that's okay. We're all learning!!

Savvy On,

~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~