A day in September

I love doing a day in the life posts! Scout has an amazing life and I want her to be able to look back at these fond memories. I also hope we inspire other families to add some cool adventure into their lives!

 After morning chores we meet friends for a geocaching hike.

 This is the geo cache app we use. Worth every penny, there are caches everywhere, all over the world! We use it everywhere we go. It will bring you to many interesting spots, right under your nose or remote.

Our favorite local spot.

 

We brought ALL our hiking buddies today!

 

 

After we returned home the kids immediately started collecting wood from the forest to build a fort of their own.

 

 When they got hungry, into the garden they went. They gobbled up raspberries, cherry tomatoes, grapes, apples and peaches...picked with their own little hands.

 

Other stuff happened, roller coaster building, drawing, play-scape fun, obstacle course training for the dogs...

Then they wanted to do some riding. 

 What an amazing life...amazing unschool days.

Horse yoga

I am talking specifically about horse yoga here but, generally about learning anything. We show her new things, help her follow her passions, and introduce her to ours. We don't meddle in HER process. How she wants to learn, what parts interest her, how she experiments, what type of "mess" she makes, how dirty she gets. We let her develop her own way, with her own creativity and ideas and give her the time she needs to explore. We are there to help, if she asks and participate, if she asks. We also walk away and let her work on her own. But this day we were together, riding.

Look at the photos. From the waist down she never changes her posture. This is perfect. She developed it on her own. We never talk about it. We are just out in the woods having fun on our horses.

I suggested stretching, she loves yoga. She maintained her seat all the while. I didn't even notice until I saw these pitures.

She can feel where she should be, how to be balanced. She has been sitting on this pony since she was 3 weeks old. She is very comfortable here, on Tonto.

To have a "good seat" is to be perfectly balanced, to move as if you are joined, physically, with your horse. This is how you stay on, not by holding onto stirrups with your feet or the saddle with your hands. I always start kids bareback, with a pad, for this reason. So they develop a good seat, before they ever see a saddle.

Life is Good!