Anatomy..whoa

Hey all,

The last two days have been great. We've been working on horses and refining our techiques. Yesterday was a gorgeous sunny day, we all had a horse to work "quietly" on. Basically we used the softest touch possible. It was incredible to see 15 horses all standing completely quiet, all in a zoned out kinda way. Three of the girls actually had their horses lay down and roll, it was awesome.

This morning we did much of the same, I worked on two horses, Cowboy and Pawnee (who, if I could, I would bring him home....he's such a sweetheart). Cowboy had to be used for a trail ride so I had to go and get a different horse. I was delighted when Sara asked me to go and get Pawnee. I worked on him in the corral with the other horses, then Sara challenged me and a couple of class mates to take their halters off and see if they would stand and let us work on him......and Pawnee did. Now in all honestly Pawnee is a bit of a "massage whore", he'll stand at the gate or fence if he sees us coming, so he made it pretty easy to work on him.

This afternoon we had our final Anatomy exam, a written component and an oral component. All of us were a bit stressed, but it turns out it was all for nothing. Harline was very gentle with us. I was the first one up for the oral portion. As you can see from the picture, it wasn't going so well, but I pulled through.

Just heading out to meet most of the class for dinner at the Rock Bottom Brewery to celebrate.

Here are a couple of shots from the cattle company that I didn't get a chance to post.

Let me hear it....awwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Still flying high in Colorado
Much love
Jess