Eventful weekend!

Well... I just got done teaching an advancing natural horsemanship camp for the past 3 days.  I've barely had time to play with Pistol, and have sacrificed some time with him to spend time with my boyfriend of almost 3 years, Ian.  But... that was a nightmare.  Luckily we talked things over and are good again.  We hung around and watched some tv and played with our puppy today, and once he left, I went out to spend some time with Pistol.  It was fabulous!  I played with him at liberty, because I feel like he is getting bored online.  He backed up with just a few tail hairs, which he has never done before!  He also backed up with me in Z5 "drawing" him.  I was able to play with the tarp on his back a bit, waving it around and crackling it, and got some licking and chewing, so I started scratching him.  He's been super itchy lately because of the flies.  :(  This big giant 2 inch long horse fly found him, and kept trying to land on him.  I shooed it away repeatedly with my carrot stick, and my silly horse started licking and chewing.  ^_^ I started scratching his right side while standing on his left side, and he stood perfectly still and started doing parrot lips.  So I thought "hmm, what if?" and put all my weight on his back while I was scratching.  He stayed perfectly still, still doing his happy parrot lips, and turned to look at me without moving his feet.  I rubbed his face, and he turned back and concentrated on how good the scratches felt.  I just barely had my toes on the ground, and we stayed like that while we watched the sunset.  The funniest thing is he actually watched it!  I saw him roll his eyes up and look at the moon a couple different times while I was hanging on his back.  I ended our session with that, since he was so happy and everything went so well.  Thank goodness everything went well in the end!