Beautiful day today. FInally feels like spring just a cool breeze. It was about 55+. When I got there Bobby was doing Dominos shoes. He's such a good boy Domino. Bobby says he's great to shoe. He holds his feet right up on the stand. I waited til he had a break and then I gave him a carrot or 2. I like Domino so much.
No Sarah today, It was Anja in the front and then Sheila in the back. Sheila took the walk ride and Anja has the trot walk. I was with Hershey and Kanti and Cathy was behind me when we split up. Cathy and Kanti had a short ride together before I got there. It made her so happy. She said that during that ride Bogie got so excited he kicked up his heels. She said it thrilled her. Hershey on one of the trots during out ride was so excited he began to cantor I was feeling honored by this big guy, it was a gift. Wish I didnt have to tell him "maybe next time buddy". I thought we were going to fly down the trail together, I had to tell him to slow and trot it was wild. I love all those horses.
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| Im so happy to be with Hershey today. |
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| Bobby |
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| Bobby said he had been shoeing for 2 hours. He just finished up Domino here. I gave him a carrot for being good. |
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| Hansome Domino after his new shoes |
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| Here the trails look great. |
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| Here is the lake with the rope swing |
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| walking back to the farm. On the right was a really pretty horse with brown white body and a black mane. Cathy said that she was with the Stallion of mine when they were abandon. Im still sad about them both. Ill ask Bob about it. |
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| Bogie and Malaki |
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| Here is when Malaki one of the last to go from the corral to the barn for getting his saddle off and going out within his buddies in the herd. Here you can see how serious Maggie takes her job of helpling guide the horses into the barn. |
Another woman rode Malaki today. I was sort of wanting to ride him. I was totally excited to ride Hershey though. It seems as though I havent been able to ride with him in quite a few weeks.Id like to do a poll on who I ride with and how often. I am a regular at the ranch.
The other riders on the 3pm ride today were 2 out of out of towner couples. They rode, Makaki, Andy, Duke and Duchess. Sheila was on her Pumkin and Anja was on Winston of course.
There were a few trots but they were short. There were 3 groups of people that were on the trails. There was also loud ATVs at the first sandy spot that came up behind us quickly after the very beginning of the ride and then again a 4-wheeler at the turn at the lake on the right side. During the ride when we first went out I was up front with Anja and Sheila, Cathy, and Kanti were at the back. At the dirts Sheila asked me to turn Hershey around and join the back group. Hershey was a good listening I got him to go out of the line and to turn and go back to the others. I felt pretty good. Id like to do a couple of lessons after work or during work soon so I can learn a thing or two from Sheila. Sheila said that Jewel was back on the trails today. She was rough at first but then she calmed down. For this ride Sheila was on sweet little Pumkin. Her colors are so pretty she has a yelllow pumkin color with large white spots on her. She is sweet, little and cute.
During the ride after the long lakeside trot there is a hill to the left and then down a hill and then we go between to rocks that are very close to each other on the edge of the lake. Today there was a family with a dog at that spot. We had to go up the steep hill to the left that is and was slippery and I had only gone up it maybe once before. I think it is difficult for the horses to get down after because is is so steep. Well we went up ok but I know that Bogie and Hershey wanted to run down the other side because it was so difficult to walk down the very steep hilll with the mud and some snow. All of our horses sort of skipped and moved quickly in an interesting way down the hill.
Sarah was at the corral at the end of the ride. I was able to give her the Book I have been talking about. She was walking down to see Hawk. I hope he is better really soon. She deserves to have a nice horse. She will take such good care of Hawk.
Here is shot of the horses after all going in for some chow after they got their saddles off and relaxed a bit.
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