Horses Kindergarten

Hello, everyone. Just the other day, I was working in my fillie's paddock- you know, scrubbing buckets, cleaning their shelter, stuff like that. Well, the two of them for some reason found this absolutely fascinating. They stood beside me the entire time, mystified as to what I was doing. They even started licking the wheelbarrow! Isn't it strange how horses manage to stay intently focused on what you're doing on the ground, however some days they can't seem to concentrate for five minutes under saddle? I think in a way they're just like little kids- they could stay quiet through a two hour movie, but start looking around and daydreaming after five minutes in kindergarten. Anyways, that's about the stage i'm at with Athena- kindergarten. She's a good girl, she lets me pick up her feet and touch her ears and everything, however even though I have been using fly spray on her mane and tail since she was about 5 months, she's still wide-eyed and ancey for the first few minutes of my main-and-tail-grooming-extraveganda, which I do a few times a week! Hopefully she'll get over it at some point, because she's going to be a show horse when she's older. I have a riding lesson tomorrow on my trainer's horse, Thunder. He's a black and white pinto appendix i've been riding for the past few months, and a very fun horse to ride. The last few lessons we've been doing dressage, a lot of the time without stirrups. I don't mind going without stirrups though, becase it helps me stay balanced. I'll post about my lesson tomorrow, but for now i'm off !