Huckleberry Diamond: Day 45 (really, already!) Trotting, trotting, and more trotting...

In order to keep things healing (and draining) nicely there in Doc's nether regions, we must trot a minimum of 20 minutes twice a day, which is easier said than done! I guess we should be grateful that it's not 115 degrees outside!
We're working on the circling game, but he likes to run out of steam about the time he makes it behind you, and so we ask again, and he'll putter out, and again we ask, and well you can see the pattern now. I decided to take trotting out of circles and into a journey.
Yesterday our adventure took us to the back yard. We played stick your nose on the weird object, with much success (he's so brave), while we trot here and there. After a while he decided he did not want to play my games anymore, it was much more fun to rear up and then lope in circles, occasionally throwing in a buck or crow hop for good measure. Once I was able to get one circle without any silliness we moved on to the road out front...and here we had a great time.
I've only had the experience of really playing with one horse, our mini horse, Foozball, LOVES to play hide and seek! I hide behind a tree, he runs and finds me, I chase him until he hides behind a tree and then we start again. Doc was matching my steps foot for foot, I'd jog, he'd trot, I'd jump, he'd jump, I'd swing my head, he'd swing his head, we had a blast! He was my mirror!!! Afterwards we shared a special moment when he just placed his face into my chest and let out a long sigh, I told him how glad I was that we'd met, how special he was to us all, how much he was loved, he licked and chewed and sighed again. I smiled until my cheeks hurt.
This morning we adventured all over the place, up and down the roads, through the woods, past the scary donkeys, into the unknown. His send is oh so nice. We worked on following my speed, walk, walk faster, trot, walk, walk even slower, trot, stop, back up, with him standing by my side, following my footsteps yet again. A couple cars drove by, one stopped (it was my daughter's friend) he stuck his nose in her window to say hi. I remember when a car would drive by his pen and he'd flip out! Now he's practically climbing in the driver's seat!
I tried to take a couple pictures...but it's hard to catch the action shots while holding a 22 foot rope and a stick n' string!