Those are neat pictures.
Becky
I wish I could remember having that waistline.
I smashed my fingers in the barn doors feeding dinner just now, and one of my fingers is bleeding, probably on my keyboard just now. ecurbh suggested he would get me a band-aid.... I said, "Honey, I can't type with a band-aid on my finger!"
I rode that horse bareback almost exclusively. I went thousands of miles that way, falling off sometimes, a lot at first, but never really getting hurt. Mostly, I think because kids don't hurt the way us grownups do when we fall. But I also think the saddle doesn't keep you from coming off, it makes you stay on only a little longer till you fall harder. Bareback, you slide off and down, in a saddle, you get thrown upwards first.
I didn't get and use a saddle till I started jumping on him.... I jumped him plenty bareback... but I needed it to enter shows ;~D
I can't ride like that any more.