October is my favorite month for riding - no bugs,
cool but not cold, horses that don't have the spring sillies, and pretty trees
to look at. Okay, my horse is still silly, but today I actually got to
ride! My morab mare took me 6 miles - our farthest yet, and other than
some scary cows and a horse eating pheasant, we did well. She crossed two
bridges she never had before, got passed by six cars and a truck with a trailer,
and got stampeded by some ridiculously valuable Tennesee Walkers (that was
a tense moment - they were charging up and down the fence, but she held it
together!). I am very proud of her for being able to load in a trailer
quietly, unload quietly, do all that scary stuff, load back in the trailer and
make it home. AND, she has to do all this with no "experienced quiet trail
horse", since I don't know of anyone local who has one. Well, Jeannie has
experienced quiet trail horses, but Jeannie is an experienced non-quiet trail
ride, and I think right now I'd cramp her style. However, we
did manage to go 4 miles without trotting in 55 minutes, which means she has the
fastest walk of any horse I've ever owned. Anyway, the sky was blue, the
trees were yellow and red, and I was looking at a dirt road between my horses
pricked forward ears. Is that not great or
what!
