An evening of magic

The smell of autumn is in the air, and I love it. Cold an crispy mornings with crystal clear air. Mist and dew covering the nature in its cloak and a the trees are slowly changing colours. Isn't this the most beautiful part of the year?

The other evening I was somewhat late out to the herd. I only worked with Divino and Franz and both horses gave me so much.

I started out with Franz, since I braided his long black forelock he has calmed down immensely. He is still a bit unsecure and now and then he feels the need of go away and circle me. However it dosen't happen as often as before and it he isn't as stressed when he does it. His hooves has been in a somewhat bad shape and I have consciously waited with them since I wanted him to feel more safe ande relaxed around me. Now he does so I've slowly started to trim them into shape.
Normaly it takes around five minutes to catch Franz. First I have to take all horses in to a small paddock inside the meadow, then I let the other ones out so that I can work with Franz without them interfering, something they are more than happy to do. Then the dance starts. I have to advance and retreat, rewarding Franz with candy and walking away from him. Up until now I have had to do it quite a lot before he has felt comfortable enough to let me put the leadrope on him. This night he just came directly and was ready. It felt like magic. He realy seemed to enoy his grooming and I could eaven lift one of his hindlegs.
I can't realy describe how wonderful that felt. I love that horse more and more for every passing day.

After Franz I decided to take Divino for a short training session. It started to get dark, but out in the open it was still possible to see a bit.
We started out with work in hand with the hackamore. He was realy good. Searched forward and carried him self a lot better. After some easy exercises I mounted him and did a new exercise, figure eight. And now to the amazing, more and more he started to stretch out and lowering his neck. When he does that he feels like a totaly different horse to ride. He feels agile, strong and balanced. At one point he started to trott in this shape and it was realy a "wow"-moment.
When we were done, he bowed down with almost no help from me. I felt warm, happy and humble when standing next to this beautiful creature.
He has started to re-shape his topline and he is looking more and more gorgeous!


Those horses, they just give me so much love.