Nine month Oliversary

Today Olive and I celebrated our nine month Oliversary.

We've done a lot things in our time together...

November, February, May, August

but this month has been pretty quiet.

I blame the heat, BreyerFest and post-BreyerFest health issues.

Instead of doing a lot of riding, we've been working on other things, like ponying.

I don't think this will ever be Olive's favorite thing...

Come on, Olive!...

but she reliably stops, starts and changes direction. Good enough!

Together with Karen and her new horse, Roy, we've also spent a lot of time working in the retention pond between the stable and the golf course.

We've done a lot of hill work...

and practiced our water crossings.

I thought this might be a problem for Olive, so we did it in hand first.

As it turns out, this was a non issue.

Good pony!

Today I asked her to walk through the dry. She didn't love it, but she was good.

She's always good.

I love this pony.

Happy nine month anniversary, Olive. Here's looking forward to many, many more.