alright, alright...

I'm updating! Yay! Time for a celebration! Ok sorry, done with the fake sarcasm. I am updating purely for selfish reasons, to brag about how amazing the projects ponies were last night!! Both the young ones experienced a lovely cold piece of metal in their mouths for the first time, and dealt with it quite well. Although the "this strange object won't come out of my mouth" faces will never fail to amuse me, they put up way less fuss then my silly saddlebred did.
Also during last nights learning extravaganza was the cementing of voice commands on the lunge. Both solidly listen to "walk on" "whoa" and *kiss*. Which is great, especially when a certain naughty pony goes under a certain stall guard and proceeds to hightail it out the barn door, stopping on a dime at "Lily! Whoa!" My favorite lesson of the night however, was when I say "eh eh" or "HEY!" It transfers to stop what your doing immediately and await further instruction. Best used when someone is trying to come in from the pasture before their turn etc.
It has just occurred to me that I haven't even introduced the project ponies... PPs consist of Lily a 3 year old TWH/Haflinger and Toby a 2 year old Belgian/Haflinger. Their owner wanted both of them "started" however when they got to my house neither was in any condition to start any sort of work, and Toby in particular has a lot more growing to do. So both of them have learned everything else that will come in handy as a respectable equine citizen. I.E. how to stand for bathing, mane pulling, fly-spraying, grooming, tacking-up, clipping and how not to be an idiot when separated from their half sibling for the first time in 2 years, ugh. Lily looks like she may be gaining enough weight to warrant an additional 30 days training of actual ground driving/under saddle work. However I haven't decided on this yet. No matter what Toby will be going back out to pasture for another year, with his owners new found information on young horse nutrition.
Their dad does have a full haflinger who is 6 or 7 years old who he wants started undersaddle as well, I've met this one, he is corpulent and could definitely benefit from learning a new job. He will probably be up for sale in September or October if every thing goes well. Anyone in New England looking for a green broke 14ish hand haffy gelding? He is quite cute actually, hehe and his name is Tom.
Ok so, hopefully there will be less time between updates in the future. I will try my best. Maybe next time I will update on my actual life, although that is a much less exciting subject. Apologies in advance...