So she had a day off yesterday and then I rode her this morning when it was 45 degrees.  Started out very well in walk and trot and when asked for canter she went on to bucking.  These were fairly impressive bucks, but apparently I have some good karma racked up, because this time I was allowed to stay in the tack. 

When she stopped bucking and came to a walk, I was faced with a conundrum.  Does one smack the horse for bucking, praise for stopping bucking or ignore and move on?  I chose the third.  We continued in trot work, but she was still holding her back up in a manner suggestive of further bucking.  I worked a few minutes in trot and then decided to take her out and lunge her instead.  I think she just has a high sense of humor and needs to move her feet along. 

So I took her out to the pasture to lunge her and the boys were out there.  They came over and stood outside the lunge circle and talked amongst themselves.  “Ahhhhh, isn’t she beautiful?”  “I think I love her.”  Pretty funny.  We lunged for a few minutes, I got back on, cantered, went fine, done.