Sunday, May 16, 2010

Disappearing About Turns

For some reason we totally lost our left about turn. She has always had a beautiful left about turn. Not so good to the right, though we are actually do pretty well with those now too. I have no idea what happened. I will admit to not reinforcing it as much as I was reinforcing the right turns while I was trying to get those right, but it seems like it just disappeared over night. Luckily she is quick and eager to work. But she seemed completely cluess, almost like she had no idea that she was even supposed to turn with me. It seems to have been a good thing though, because now she is not only turning beautifully to the left, but the issues with her right about turn have also disappeared. She is staying much tighter in all her turns. I need to try and get the flip on the tripod so I can get some video of her heeling.

Picture news. I haven't put up any new pictures for a while. I was still using a SLR, but it finally started to have issues. So I got my Mom's old digital, which is what most of the shots of Vivre have been taken with. I don't think the cold weather was good for it, since it hasn't been the same since winter. But since my Mom's other camera isn't doing well I get it tomorrow, to test it, so I will hopefully be able to get some shots of Vivre. Of course it is going to rain tomorrow so I might not get too many. We have had a lot of rainy days, which has also put a damper on outside training. The falls were 11 feet above flood level. And with more rain on the way it really slows down training. I am going to try and take Vivre to the barn with me sometime this week. That way we can work someplace unusual, but still be out of the rain. Camera is here, so I am going to play.