Lunging Oscar

Oscar is pretty much turned out for winter now, but I'm still working him a wee bit on the ground. Hopefully by the time winter is done he'll have the lunging thing 100% sussed. He's pretty good now although after a while he will attempt to bog off over towards the gate in the direction of the others (who don't give two hoots about what he's doing). So I just need to be a bit quick watching him and catching it before it happens. He is not exactly very clever or quick about trying to take off, but seems to know when I'm not paying attention!!

The chooks helped this morning which was actually kind of useful as it got him working in a nicer frame :-)

He was also doing some great lengthening in his trot after about 15 mins. He is still happier on the left rein than the right so I need to make sure I work him evenly and hopefully we'll get more even muscle development than he has now. Been trying to work him over poles but the little bugger is very good and avoiding them.

Not a lot else going on at this time of year, it's not too muddy so far. Had a decent amount of rain in the past week but yesterday and today have been pretty dry and warmer so hopefully the grass might grow a wee bit.

About to plant my first lot of garlic, ever! After meaning to do it for years I am going to plant some this weekend. Fingers crossed it actually grows... not sure how easy or hard it is to grow?