[BladeRider]

Well, I am outta here-ya’ll have a good weekend. I will be busy tomorrow with about 15 - 12 year old boyscouts that need to earn their horsmanship badges!

[HairOfTheDog]

Ah - well have a good weekend!

[FrogInABlender]

Well have fun today. It should be interesting.

I reckon Kari and Shirley I are going to go on to the Elkmont Benefit ride. I called Donny and they’re still having it. It’s raining a bit here now, but we’re on the northern edge of it so hopefully it won’t last too long. The little volunteer fire dept there is having a bean day too, so we should have a good lunch. I’m going to ride Goose and Kari’s going to ride Daisy, the B&W mare. Faith’s shoes are about to come off.

When I got to the barn yesterday afternoon I noticed Whirl kinda gimping on the gravel in front of the barn and darned if she hasn’t pulled a shoe off. So there go my plans for riding her tomorrow. I’ve thought about pulling the other one and trying Grace’s Easyboots on her coz I think they’d fit, though Lord knows how she’d do with boots on the fronts and shoes on the back. If they fit, I may just pull them all and try the boots all around. Or she may not need them on the backs, Grace doesn’t. It’s something else to think about I guess.

Well, I gotta get myself in gear if we’re going. Kari’s coming here, then we’re pulling the rest of the way in my rig.

[HaveFaith]

Elkmont ride was nice. No rain and lots of people. They said while we were eating they had 70 riders and had raised $1000. No rocks, bluffs, waterfalls, or mountains. We did see 3 big does just standing off the trail in a field watching us. Just down the path from them was this swamp. We had not seen it this full of water before. Pretty, for a swamp.

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