Can you tell I’m having fun yet?

Hi Folks, Les here, it’s Monday, January 30^th.  Absolutely a fantastic day here, the temperature is 72 degrees, couldn’t be any better.  The dirt in the arena is literally perfect, there’s really nothing wrong.  There must be something I don’t know because it was too perfect. Temperature perfect, arena dirt perfect, cattle I worked were perfect, the horses I worked were perfect, and I even roped pretty good.

Life is wonderful at Rancho Arroyo Grande

Started out riding the new colt doesn’t really have a barn name yet, but if you look on my Facebook page, you’ll see there is a contest, I will give a Performax bit of your choice if you submit the winning name for this colt. On my Facebook page there is a description of him so you have a little something to work with.  We will choose a name and whomever name we chose will get a free bit of their choice from Performax.

This particular colt was so exciting today; my blogs aren’t going to be very long, but more often. Today was a fantastic day, I want to say, Cody did so much with fundamentals for about 2 ½ months, he worked on fundamentals, fundamentals, this colt’s fundamentals are so strong his body positions are so great. His neck, his mouth is perfect, everything is right, he moves right.

I put him on a cow today, it was a fresh cow. First time I worked a fresh cow with him, in fact any cow, I work buffalo. This little colt put his nose down to the ground, he wanted to be a cow horse, he did it so pretty, so light-footed, so limber, so light.  He thought he could use his mind, he was very attentive, it was so exciting. I know it totally sounds crazy to you, but where I sat, it makes my heart beat fast, and it gives me one heck of a big rush. Some of the things I live for most.

This colt puts his head down and looks at the cow and says bring it, come on… he doesn’t do anything radical, because I certainly don’t let him. I keep it really slow, I keep a lot of draw on him, I back him, bend him perfect and if he’s soft we let him turn. I kick him up to the next stop so he stops the cow. He really showed what he was made of and on top of that, I could literally lope this colt around the arena today on slack with one hand and his neck was perfect. I couldn’t hardly see the poll of his head; his neck was arched slightly and was way down low. He galloped so collected and so pretty. He has it going on, I’m really excited about him. I hate to brag about these winter horses, but at this point of time I can’t help it, it’s just the way it is. This colt I really like him, today his first day he really put the brakes on and I didn’t have to ask, I just been setting him up getting his form right, getting him so he moves right, sending him down the arena twice and said Whoa, and just moved my hands a little bit. I tell you this colt just went to the ground, really surprised me.

So I was pretty excited and then I rode Sparky on the same little fresh cattle. They were really sharp cattle, like little deer. Sparky was incredible, he is like a magic carpet ride. Sparky is a wonder horse, absolutely grand and I love him to death. Then I rode Gracie, my black mare, she’s my heel horse, and you know what, I roped pretty darn good. When I do that I open my bag of potato chips on my way home and I put on ZZ Top as loud as it will go on my radio and eat my potato chips, drink my Gatorade, tap my toes, snap my fingers all the way home. And that’s as good as it gets, I hope it continues on, but I thought I would share it with you.  I don’t know if anyone else cares, hope you do!  Thanks for reading… BYE!

Les on Sparky(he looks like a big Shetland) w cody, makin plans for the day