Today was wonderful, lovely, perfect. It was warm out for December in Wyoming. The wind was still. It was sunny, then worked into a light snow. A great day for working horses! I had Mayfly, Huckleberry, and Twix all out to work. I had Bechler out to work them off of. Bechler may be a grumpy old guy, but he is handy working a colt. I don't think I could do anything on his back that would take him by surprise. 

After I warmed up Bechler, I started out with Mayfly. She was standing strangely patient. I ponied her for a little and sacked her out lightly with the flag. She wasn't worried. I loomed over her and put my weight on her from Bechler's back. No problem, so I got off. Did a few seconds of direct and drive, then took her in the roundpen. 

I didn't take as much time getting on her this time. Bounced a few times, Stood up in the stirrup a few times, then swung on up. This was only the second time I got on her, so I stayed on a few seconds, then dismounted. I did that a few times and she was rather relaxed. Then I upped what I was asking for. I asked for forward movement. The first time I asked she just wanted to spin with me. Cool, she can spin, but that wasn't what I wanted. The first time I said, ok, you moved. Once I asked her to stop, I dismounted. The second time I wanted one step forward. I kept asking until I got that one step, then we halted and I dismounted. I did this a dozen more times until I got a number of forward steps in a row, halt, then another dozen steps forward. At that point I called it a day for her. I still had two more horses to work. Her allotted hour was up. I was a proud mamma! This mare really wants to be good.