Well, that just really sucks about the rain and the muddy trails. You’ve got one extreme and I’ve got the other. Our dust is so bad that it’s pitiful. My poor horses were gray all over after having to ride 6 or 8 miles on limestone gravel roads in an open 2-horse trailer on Saturday. But we had a good ride in spite of it. My horseyfriend Elizabeth, who hasn’t ridden a lot in the last several years for various reasons, came with me and Shirley and rode Miss Hope. She has horses of her own, but one of them had navicular and had to have a neurectomy and will probably just be a pasture ornament from now own, and the other one hasn’t been ridden in so long that it’ll take quite a bit of conditioning to get him back in any kind of shape to be able to keep up with a group. So her riding Hope was a good deal for both of us. Hope needed the exercise.
It was incredibly hot (about 98* by the time we got back to the trailer) so we only did the short loop out of the horse camp, which is about 4 hours including a lunch break, but it was really great to see her enjoy herself that much again. She was riding down the trail at a fast rack, hollering “WOO HOO!!” and I just had to laugh. I’d be the same way if I hadn’t been able to ride in a long time like that. I’m hoping that she’ll be able to go with me this coming Saturday when we go to the rails-to-trails. I’ll let her ride Grace next time. I think she’ll like her too. You just can’t beat good friends and good horses all at the same time. It just don’t get any better.
Glad you had a good ride with your friend!
We’re drying out now I think for a couple days. Our trails would be muddy today too, so I think we’ll wait.
Ecurbh’s mom just wrote that their family friend from a few hours from here has died while he and the Missus were on a church group trip in Fiji, when he apparently had a heart attack. At this moment the Missus is still in Fiji. Wow... At least she was with a group of friends. I can’t imagine how overwhelming it would be to be alone traveling and have that happen, halfway around the world, with all the complications of that.
Anyway... Since ecurbh’s parents are planned to come here in a couple weeks and were planning to spend a few days with them, it occurs to me that depending on whatever else is happening around the Missus, they may either postpone or extend their trip to see her ????
Hey, that sounds like you had a great ride:).
Yes Grizzly is the one that hangs on to the horses tails at times. He did it to Rocky during this romp, I just never got it on camera.
Becky