School Days, School Days.......

Jetta was back in Ruth's round pen today for a lesson in bending and softening. She is really quite stiff in the rib cage and needs to do lots of bending exercises. She is progressing though; I saw lots to be happy about as Ruth was working with her! Check out the video and the wicked blowing shredded tarp! No big deal to Jetta at all! She didn't care about the milk jugs under foot either. Pretty amazing. Best of all was seeing the progress during the lesson. We're going back again tomorrow.

The BEST news is that she is now officially mine! I received her papers today! Yay!

The video link is below---enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmaKl2VR_jY&feature=youtu.be

Once I left the trainer's place I headed home, but stopped at the arena on the way. I let Jetta check out the indoor arena which she had not seen. I got a huge "in-place" spook from her when I pushed the button to open the huge electric garage-type door. Poor baby! She's been so good about everything I just figured she'd seen a big noisy door opening, too. She handled it well even though she was freaking out; she didn't really move her feet--just crouched and trembled like she was terrified. Sorry, girl! I also took her to the outdoor arena and took this video:

http://youtu.be/UsPW0OYKRi4

Jetta is looking and feeling so much better. I've had her five weeks now. Compare the horse in the video to my first glimpse of her below. Such a difference, thank goodness!