Spring May Come

[threeringedmoon]

Originally published at Five Acres with a View. You can comment here or there.

I haven’t ridden in months, but the weather was nice enough to tempt me outside this afternoon.  When I got to the barn, I found that Lily had already been ridden by R, the young woman who has my permission to ride her.  This astonished me:  when I longed Lily last weekend, I didn’t see a horse I wanted to ride any time soon, so I salute R. I understand Lily only levitated twice: once when a trailer attached to a truck rumbled by the arena, and then on its return trip.  Having both seen and felt the levitation, I know it looks worse than it feels.  However, it still feels pretty impressive.

Indy, a cute little grulla horse that sort of belongs to my trainer, had not been ridden yet.  Indy has a bad case of Sergeant Schultz:  When you first get on him he does his best to convince you that he knows nothing, nothing!  After two minutes I convinced him that straight and forward were not negotiable, and he was very good for me.  Since neither one of us is in great shape, I called it quits after a short session of very nice work.  Indy seemed to appreciate the post-work carrots.

I enjoyed finding out I can still ride.  I may not have any muscle strength, but I still have the muscle memory. I expect I will hurt tomorrow.

Comments

[meggins.livejournal.com]

Sergeant Schultz syndrome--I think I get that occasionally myself.

This is the second time today I've read the word "grulla." I don't think I'd ever come across it before. (It's a coat color, yes?) Maybe it will actually stick in my mind now.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

grulla is a light brown with darker stripes. The points of the horse (mane and legs) are darker as well. Indy's stripes are fairly faint, as is his dun stripe.

This article explains it better than I could:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grulla

[meggins.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. After reading that, I happily trolled Google Images for more pix. Even Breyer has grullo models! I wonder if the term is less used in the East, though. Maybe just settling for dun (or black dun) out thisaways.