Gotta love a MudBall!

I didn't ride yesterday, it's been raining here for the past couple of days and whent i went out to get him he was a total MudBall, I just didn't feel like going thru a hour long grooming session, just to fight with him for an hour.
So I rode the other, semi-normal horse. At least she's normally normal. Not yesterday. Yesterday the local boogey man, who normally hangs out in puddles, had decided to take up residence under the bridge that has to be crossed to go on a trail ride. Now it's not a wooden bridge or anything that makes noise, it's tarmac over a small piece of concrete pipe, so the stream can continue. I tried everything, circles, backing, I made her canter in the field next to me, everything. Finally I resorted to using twings and cornstalks as crops, that didn't work either, normally this horse sees a crop in her space and she Goes, but not yesterday. I finally resorted to the old hop off, lead her across, get back on trick. That worked. The rest of the ride was fine. So coming back we have to go across the bridge again, she hot footed it that time, I'm thinking only because she knew she was going home.
Still even a bad ride is still a ride!