FEBRUARY

It's been a good month! Alisa and Keota came over to ride on Keota's birthday weekend, which coincided with Lincoln's day off for Lynn. We rode bundled up both Saturday and Sunday. They were cold, but glorious days. We called it early on Sunday because the wind was really moving and everyone was a little jumpy; but Saturday we rode on the left fork and went up and around to the turtle pond. It was fun. It feels like forever since we rode with Alisa. All the dogs had fun and horses were glad to get out and see some country.

The next weekend it was dreary. Lynn called and said it was cold and supposed to rain and we all had things to do. Fine. I went in and worked on something (wasting time more like) and when I came out the sun was shining.
        I called Lynn instantly, "THE SUN IS SHINING!"
        She said, "I'll see you in few minutes!"
And we were off! We had a great ride and worked on our new trail.We turned around at the top and came home, but it was fun and we all loved it.

Today was another "Do we or don't we?" day. We have done this practically all month. We want to, but it's cold. We want to, but we have stuff to do. We want to, but we need to go to town for groceries. Sheesh. Talk about two indecisive people! All our weather advisors told us it would not rain until after 2pm. I wanted to go to church, but we wouldn't be back in time. What to do? Silly question. We rode!

It was 35 degrees and snow was on the ground and in the trees. It was beautiful and worth every minute. We only rode to the spot where we would have to ride the road because it was icy on the road. I guess our next project needs to be to make a trail that bypasses that long stretch of road. Unfortunately, it's pretty steep all along there. Anyway, we saw icicles and were careful around big clumps of snow that threatened to go down our backs. We slipped and slid a little, but came home happy.

After unsaddling at home, we walked Bus and Jupes to Shirley's so she could see they weren't sweaty and cold and she could nuzzle with Buster. I think it made her day--made ours, too.