Today's horse riding

Today is my riding lesson. As it is the holidays, nobody is really around for their lessons, so I had a half hour private lesson. At first I thought it wouldn't be as good because its only 1/2 hour but, it was the best lesson I have ever had!

I had my favourite teacher and I was riding the little black and white pony, Chequers. It felt strange being on my own because I never usually have private lessons. As a warm-up Louise said I could do whatever I wanted like trotting in shapes, going over the ground pole and cantering! I am never usually aloud to canter on these warm-ups because it would get to crowded with all the other horses there. I had 1 lap of really fast canter around the 40m by 20m school and a little hop over the ground pole at a canter.

After about 5 minutes of warm-up we started jumping! Louise warned me that he lands quite hard and would make a in-experienced jumper like me fly forwards! I started of by jumping only about knee hight then we got up to about waist height? I am not to sure about the heights because I wasn't paying attention to that, I having so much fun! I got used to the hard landings and found a good jumping position. After my lesson I un-tacked him and buckled up his rug and I got to put him in his stable.

I really want to have more private lessons even if they are only half an hour, I get so much done and I think I would be a better rider for it. I was a bit put of to begin with because I was on Chequers (he can be naughty!) and it was only half an hour and private, but it turned out to be the best lesson I ever had, and maybe one of the best days of my life! Here are some pictures.

Jasper's new trick

Jasper has recently been learning a new trick, beg. All he does is sit, and wave both his front paws above his head, It looks really sweet!

Our Trip

Yesterday we went to a wood to walk Jasper, and to just have a day out. In the wood the path was covered with slugs! It was discusting. Halfway through our trip my mum spotted a baby frog or toad about the size of a 5p, I caught it and we looked at it and saw it was a baby toad! We let it go back on its way into a bush. The main part of this walk was reaching the pyramid tomb. Its like in Egypt with the pyramids although its a a lot smaller! Then we came across a Lesser Burdock plant which is great fun. It has these sticky buds with hooks like velcro and stick onto your clothes, I enjoy secretly planting them on people and seeing if they notice!

After our walk we went to the village nearby where we went into the pet shop and Jasper sniffed all the discusting pig ears in a box. We brought him some biscuits and a chew stick which he just finished today.  Next, we had something to eat and went home where Jasper slept for hours!