Who are you?

After a week and a half vacation for Flash, I was back out at the barn today, ready to pick up where we left off with flopping around of the blue sheet.

The herd was conveniently up in the loafing shed in the barn, to get out of the afternoon heat. I walked up to Flash with the halter and he looked at me with interest but as I made a motion to put the halter over his head as I had done a million times before, he acted like he had no idea what I was doing. He snorted and stared at it then started backing away... I told him to whoa and spoke in a soothing voice and its like the lightbulb flipped on in his head. "oh yeah, I know who you are and what that is.. duh" So then he dropped his head, came up to me and let me slide the  halter over his head. I guess it was too long away for the little guy, he had reverted to a wild horse running with the herd.

We worked some more on the scary blue sheet, it took about 15 minutes to get him back to where we left off. (keeping feet in place and remaining in "whoa" while the sheet is thrown over his back and shook over and around him) Then I led him around inside and outside the barn and in the loafing shed while carrying the sheet and while it moved around on his back. He needs to get used to things flapping on either side and above him. He wanted to stop and check out the flapping on his sides a few times but he settled into the movement after a short time. This will be something I need to work on quite a bit, as he is a sensitive fella and that flighty Arabian breeding in urges him to run at the slightest upset.