Anyways, I've been able to ride the quantity of times that I wanted, but the quality of the rides was meh.  I'm not going to say that it wasn't worth it, because every step forward is a step closer to a better conditioned horse.  But damn.  Unbalanced old man cannot canter on wet grass.

Making him trot through the wet half of the ring.

So... that's about it.  It's hot.  And if it's not just hot, it's humid.  And if it isn't just hot and humid, it's just rained and the wet air is compounding the heat and adding to the humidity and the only choice is to take things easy.  We have been able to continue our trot sets, albeit shorter trot sets but for the ultimate same duration.  And cantering for almost full duration, but I'll be honest:  if he picks up a good canter with little sass and carries himself through the turns, I'll cut it short and praise him.  I've also made sure to take him over trot poles.  We did flat poles for a while, then did a medium caveletti with a pole on either side and recently took it to two poles on either side.  I'd like to add canter poles at some point next week.

The crew brought fourteen horses.  Originally, they were supposed to be boarded at my barn.  I'm glad they're not because that's too many cars.

And then there was the little yellow sign, which said "to set" and pointed towards my trail-riding dirt road.  Just think, people, there's a moving being filmed where I ride my pony.  I'm a super star by proxy.

About a quarter-mile to a half mile, we hit the first real sign of the filming and I opted to dismount.  

Heavy duty auxiliary cables.

These cables ran the length of the road, hidden in the brush.

Lights, cables, and the same brown fabric that they used to hide our blue barrels a couple weeks ago.

I interrupt the boring shit with a shot of my handsome pony, looking at everything.

More electrical shit.  Guess it's water resistant?

Trailers of stuff.

I didn't want to get too close to the "plantation house", (which is actually what we referred to it as, too, prior to the movie), but you can see a bit of it above his noseband.

BM said that they painted it an off yellow with paint mixed with dishsoap in order to age it.  The dishsoap was so they could then wash the paint off.

Strategically hiding an electrical box with wilted magnolia branches.  #whereswaldo

I dunno.

I didn't realize so much was needed for a set.  I think the building on the left is an original.  They built some "slave shacks" for the movie, but I wasn't near them.

Oh, wait.  That them, in brown between the trees.  Aren't I an exceptional photographer?

As soon as we walked the length of the set, I turned around and went back towards the barn.  Dude's itty bitty brain was blown.  Once we were clear of the set supplies, I mounted.  He was a little up, but he calmed nicely with some leg and conversation.