What’s a round pen…….(?)

…..you may well ask…….

We have a round pen…….

.*****Round Pen ~~~ What’s It All About?*****

Round pens are used in horse training…

***Just In Case You Wanted More Round Pen Information***

We’ve had a large/heavy-duty round pen with multiple panels for a long time…

It was rarely used…

It needs sanding and re-painting…..(again)…

It also needs some re-welding…

I’ve tried some of my own repairs with my handy-dandy Mig welder…….

*****To MIG?…..Or To TIG?…..That Is The Question*****

…..or is it a Tig(?)…….

…..I’m really not sure…….

…..either way…….

…..I’m not very good at it…….

…..but I do have a nifty welding helmet…..with blue lightening decals on both sides…….

…..I sometimes wear it to the grocery store…..

…..(it makes me look like I know what I’m doing)…..

But I don’t…….

…..so I’ve resorted to using hay-string-repair-jobs versus welding…..

It creates that desirable/professional-look…

And let’s not forget the Jurassic Park-esque weeds and vines that took over…..

…..sub-tropical-flora that has grown to multiple-story height in the middle of the round pen…..

…..they’ve become very scary…..

…..super-tall…..super-huge…..with clinging arms and sharp teeth…

…..I had to venture in carefully at high noon to hack & hew & lop it all down…..before they ate me…

~~~~~~~But Someone Had To Do It~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~It HAD To Be Done~~~~~~~

Because~~~~~~~Brave needs to be trained-up………….finally……………..at last…..

Tra!  La!

We haven’t been able to find anyone who has been willing & able to commit to the time necessary for this task…..

Then…..Suzanne-Annette introduced me to Rhiannon…..

…..she’s a horse-trainer who has worked with S-A’s thoroughbreds and warmbloods very successfully…..

Rhiannon has recently come over and met Brave…..

…..and they liked each other…..

…..(that’s important)…..

……………..plus, Brave prefers women…………….yes, he does)…..

…..and now Rhiannon is willing to start working with him…..

BUT…..the jungle-of-a-round-pen needed to be tamed first…..

(I still have nightmares about some of those plants…….)