I haven’t ridden in months, but the weather was nice enough to tempt me outside this afternoon. When I got to the barn, I found that Lily had already been ridden by R, the young woman who has my permission to ride her. This astonished me: when I longed Lily last weekend, I didn’t see a horse I wanted to ride any time soon, so I salute R. I understand Lily only levitated twice: once when a trailer attached to a truck rumbled by the arena, and then on its return trip. Having both seen and felt the levitation, I know it looks worse than it feels. However, it still feels pretty impressive. <\/p>\n
Indy, a cute little grulla horse that sort of belongs to my trainer, had not been ridden yet. Indy has a bad case of Sergeant Schultz: When you first get on him he does his best to convince you that he knows nothing, nothing! After two minutes I convinced him that straight and forward were not negotiable, and he was very good for me. Since neither one of us is in great shape, I called it quits after a short session of very nice work. Indy seemed to appreciate the post-work carrots.<\/p>\n
I enjoyed finding out I can still ride. I may not have any muscle strength, but I still have the muscle memory. I expect I will hurt tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I haven’t ridden in months, but the weather was nice enough to tempt me outside this afternoon. When I got to the barn, I found that Lily had already been ridden by R, the young woman who has my permission to ride her. This astonished me: when I longed Lily last weekend, I didn’t see … Continue reading Spring May Come<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-sd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}