Dimil Seems to Be His Name. All Along.

I think, much like the Boss yesterday, I want to step away from Zoe just a little bit, not from her, but I can't do the blog I was intending to. It hits you harder than I would have thought, and I need a bit of Other for the moment.



I rode a new horse today, Maisie, a lovely bay Arab, in preparation for finally getting to ride my horse that I bought a month ago. He is doing well and getting lots of work, both with a really good rider, and on the ground. He's a handful tho, and I need to be good enough to ride him.

I think I am to the point where I am feel like mostly I know what I am doing, in regards to seat, legs, hands and how to tell the horse what to do, how to tell them where to carry their head, collect themselves, what leads to take, how wiggleing your fingers can change everything (yes, there is a LOT to proper riding) and I am to the point where I can spare some attention from myself and start handling a horse where the attention needs to be on THEM.

Hence Maisie. AnaMontana pretty much did what she was meant to and let me work thu my bits. (Patient horse Ana) Maisie is a little, well MORE. More like my horse will be, according to thems that knows.



I feel a lot more confident now. Not so worried about remembering every little thing. My body knows now. Not, mind you, that I know it all, or even a portion. One will never does when it comes to riding. But, still, progress.

It's being in charge. It's rolling with surprises. It's knowing what do (And staying ON) when they shy&skitter when faced with something scary. (Shy&skitter is a maneuver they will do where they go up about a foot, and sideways any where from five feet to across the ring) Today's Big Scary Thing was a window in the arena that was OPEN. It's about being ONE with the horse, and riding WELL. Vague, I know, but it is hard to explain.

Like trying to explain how it feels to play music, when it is RIGHT, and how you got there. Can't be done.

My horse has a name now, too. He is Dimil. Sounds like "Dim" as in Dimming of the Day, my favorite Richard Thompson song, and "Meel" which is much like the French word Miel, for honey.(Thank you MerryDragon on Twitter!)

His registered name is still "Illicit Affair" but one can't run around calling him THAT, and his barn name was "Spot" and I refuse to be in love with a horse named "Spot" He needed something Arabic, being a pure Arabian and all. And his barn name (kind of a nickname you call your horse from day to day) can be Dim, since he IS like a big puppy, the loverboy.

He seems to like it. Answers to it. Or maybe it is the treats. Hard to say.



Dimil, by the way, is Arabic. For "Spot".

Love and Horses,
Lorraine