Ride 83 - Bareback, Bridleless, Rollbacks and more. :D

I had plans to ride out on the road today, but I got held up at work and then when I got home we had to put out a bale of hay, so it got too late.  The cold drained the tractor battery so while I was waiting on hubby to jump it I crawled up on the fence and climbed on Chrome's back with no saddle, bridle or halter.  :D

He was awesome.  I didn't have any steering, so I couldn't control where we went, but we walked around for a while and I did a lot of ducking under tree limbs LOL!!

 Is the tractor ready yet??

I had to get off and open gates when the tractor finally started.  I let Chrome out in the yard so he would be out of the way while we moved hay.  He walked out in the yard, grazed for a minute and then bronco bucked in place for a second and went right back to grazing... oooookay!!  I'm so glad he waited to do that until I was off of him.  I have no idea what set that off.  So after doing hay and a few other chores I went out in full darkness and put a halter on Chrome to finish up our ride bareback.  I started riding in the pasture, but he was super energetic compared to earlier.  Like seriously I was having visions of the bronco bucking in my head, so I took him out into the front yard.

He was snotty for a few minutes because he wanted to go back out to his fresh bale of hay that he knew the donkey and goats were eating without him, but he settled down when I insisted.  I rode him through the trees in the circle again and we even did some walking pole bending.  It was fun hehe.  At one point I finally took him up the driveway to the gate because he was looking for the neighbor horses.  He got really hesitant.  Then he spotted his own shadow on the gate (our light pole was behind us) and froze, his head in the air.  I finally asked him to turn around and he literally planted one hind foot and did a full 180 rollback.  I have never felt him spin on his haunches like that with me on his back.  It caught me off guard because I was bareback but I didn't fall off hehe.  We walked back down the driveway as calm as could be.  :)  I did a little trotting, but not much.  I guess that's all.  Both rides combined was about 25 minutes.