Two Quickies

 I am on a short leash for a few weeks while I do full time caregiving for my mom; however, my schedule fit in two short rides. Lynn is so good--she had Jupes saddled and ready and the truck hooked up. I showed up at 6:30 and away we went.

Day one, we went along our newest trail that breaks off by Indy's frog pond. It is boonie brushing, but I really like it. We made a short loop of it and had fun. There are some possibilities over there that we can develop. T/C had a major first: COWS! I guess they were probably Katie's first, too. Oh my. They are  scary and caused T/C to be pretty jumpy and snorting the whole ride.

Day two, we tooled around the Hennessey Ranch. We went down through the woods above the meadow and yep--more cows. T/C snorted every two steps for a long ways. It was a very quick ride, but again, it was good. We dreamed about where we would put our houses if we were rich and could buy the place. 

Jupes needs to be ridden, even if his blanket doesn't get wet, and having me up there and cruising around makes him a better boy. I think he likes to go and really doesn't seem to get bored, but he likes to try and push his boundaries at least once. T/C is turning out to be a great horse. He stands for Lynn to get on and he goes where she wants. He is still doesn't like puddles, but does better with clear water. 

A short ride is better than no ride! 

Two Spooky Horses

 

What a great ride we had on Saturday! We rode the Gray's Falls trail for the first time in possibly a year. It was definitely overgrown and we had to do some logging, but Wow! what a great ride. We came across what probably was a fire clearing road with lots of logs and brush piled up and we rode for a little ways on it. It just kept going, but Ziva is a little overweight and out of shape and Jupiter, well, he's a fat boy, so we turned back.

What had been a peaceful easy ride, changed not too far into the way back. First of all, we heard motorcycles relatively nearby. Secondly, Katie learned about steep mountains. She dove down off the side of the road where it is formidably steep! Ziva stood at the top and looked over at her as Katie crawled her way back up. Talk about scary. We would have had to find a less steep spot and called her and called her to traverse sideways to us. But she made it. I hope she never does that again.

Back to the motorcycles. . . you would have thought those two horses had never heard one before. Good grief. High headed and high stepping all the way back. I didn't think Jupes was even going to stop at the little granola meadow. Of course he did, what was I thinking, but he turned and faced the way he had heard them and he gobbled it down and was ready to go! Forget waiting for Lynn to get back on. He was leaving her and that pretty boy. The monsters could eat HIM. In all fairness, when we saw them, it was just their heads zooming up a steep embankment and we couldn't see the bikes themselves. lol

We trotted all the way to the top of Hennessey. When we got there, here came the motorcycles down the jeep trail. So we waited. Two of them came down and stopped and visited with us. Then we heard voices up on the trail (also very scary, for Pete's sake!). One of them must have wrecked pretty hard and possibly had a broken clavicle. We asked if we could help and they said they had it, so off we went. Man from
Snowy River has nothing on two Burnt Ranch Riders. lol Got down in record time. What a fun day! Raining like mad today, so sorry we can't ride, but happy for rain. 

It was a sweaty and itchy day for T/C. Had to scratch it right now!

For Lynn, too! LOL