Rain Pain

She'd seen on his twitter status updates that he'd planned on going riding, but the rain sent him to the movies instead. She posted that she recommended riding in the rain too, ha!  Jill even liked teaching in it.

The first lesson, ready in the barn, went into the arena and then voted to ride out. They mounted outside the arena and rode to the ring and after about 15 min a crazy wind came up and the pelting rain was bad enough for them all to agree to make a run to the arena. Jill looked the other way while they rode through the doorway mounted, this time, with the exception of the big chesnut who had been acting up in the weather in the first place, who was walked in the people door by his rider.

As soon as they were all indoors, it stopped. They felt choked with the dust.

Jill liked having a helper in there to help move the flower boxes. She was making good use of the mentor status and her delegation skills and the assistant instructor didn't mind the run with the manure fork for clean ups as required. "Do you really think I'll be an instructor someday?"

The second lesson saw the same student flying through the air TWICE. ack.  "I'm not as tough as her" big sister protested the horse change proposal "if I fall off I'll cry."  Jill laughed and convinced the twice fallen to carry on her existing mount and the rest of class, thankfully, went well.

Jill's reluctantly agreed bareback school of her charge who owned her pony, meant the 7 yr old did not get easy canter transitions from the fat grey mare. But it was fun trying! 

Bringing in the wee black pony for a wee groom by the 4 yr old was a good positive distraction in the frisky weather for the youngster's ride on a super-unusually-scooty chesnut with flaxen mane and tail, which had been cut very short for safety reasons), while her gramma had practiced lunging again, under Jill's instruction.

It was an honour to get an email from the absolutely World Class, indeed World Champion facility, asking for her resume and dates that she might do a trial.  But Jill hadn't updated her CV and sent it yet. She loved her town, and riding, and teaching, and, she wasn't sure she could actually move so far for a groom job at a Combined Driving facility...  If her headache was any indication of the intensity of the storm that was to continue in the area for several days, she thought she should hold off thinking about it for the time being and go out and get more batteries and duct tape instead.