Monthly Totals

March 2015

Morgan - 406 minutes - 6.75 hours - 21 miles
Reagan - 189 min - 3 hours - 9 miles
Bill & Majesty - 221 minutes - 3.75 hours - 11.5 miles
Wasabi - 83 min - 1.5 hours - 4 miles

Wasabi Saddle Time:
2014:     12.25 hours
2015:  
Jan: 0
Feb: 0
Mar: 1.5 hours

Quick, before the sun sets

10 minute ride
Morgan
? miles

Bill was busy talking to a gentleman about laying our new floor, the animals were lazying about in the sun, and then Morgan called out to me ... I caught her drift ... we had a few minutes before dinner time and Bill wouldn't notice our escape if we hurried ...

And those are just the cutest ears to watch the shadows lengthen through.  So we snuck in a quick ride.  I don't know how long we were gone, I didn't care how many miles we rode, I was just happy to be with my Morgie girl right there, in that moment of bliss.

Bittersweet Day

10 minute ride
Reagan
30 minute ride - Bill & Majesty

I had listed an ad for Reagan and received a phone call from a wonderful lady earlier in the week.  She wanted to come take a look at her and a horse our farrier was selling on Sunday.  So, we loaded Reagan and Majesty up and hauled them to the local arena. 

We chatted while I saddled her up, explained that she was in heat, so this was going to be her at her very worst ... Reagan snorted indignantly to show me what she thought of that statement.  She took a step away from the mounting block while I slid into the saddle, but that was the worst of it.  

I walked and trotted her around the arena then hopped out of the saddle.  As soon as the lady got comfortable in the saddle a smile slid across her face.  She looked at Reagan the way I did, which made my heart warm.  She rode for a bit, then asked her friend to ride her as well.  Reagan carried the lady's friend around the arena and listened quietly for cues and basically was perfect.

The lady bought Reagan.  So, we will bid happy trails to Reagan the third week in April.

Meanwhile, Bill and Majesty took a stroll around the area, through the local sand dunes, and was a gentleman to the lady's grandson.  They ambled about for 30 minutes, then we loaded them up and took them home.  Morgan had to check each of them when they were put in the turn out.  She makes me laugh sometimes.

Majesty Tackles the Gate

24 minute ride
Morgan, Bill & Majesty
1.08 miles

I heard a sound behind me and just knew it was Morgan so I snapped a quick picture.  I'm pretty sure she was trying to send me "grab snacks" thoughts with that intense gaze

Once we got back to the house, Bill went to shut the gate.  Majesty wasn't sure about that thing swinging near his face, but he sure tried hard.  Morg and I shut the gate and Bill said "You made that look easy."  Made my day!

Day of the Goat

68 minute ride
Morgan, Bill & Majesty
3.66 miles

Here we are getting for a ride ... and what's that at the far right hand corner of the picture?  The goat.  She was eating the trailer, of course.  Other people's goats don't snack on metal, do they?

Here is the ONLY picture from the day that didn't have a goat in it.  It's not that she didn't try ... Bill and I had to chase her back in to the yard three times before we could actually go for a ride.

Goat, goat, everywhere a goat.

Majesty and the horse flesh eating gate

28 minute ride
Morgan, Bill & Majesty
1.83 miles

Bill sent me a text saying if I hurried, there was enough light to catch a ride, but I was already on the way home!  We saddled up our besties and headed out

It's been quite some time since I've seen these two together

February 1st was our last ride with this pair ... 6 weeks seems like forever!

When we got home, Bill went to shut the gate and Majesty decided it was definitely a horse eater.  So Bill took the opportunity to teach him the gate was not a scary object.  Morgan snacked while she watched, of course.

Bill & Wasabi's First Solo

28 minutes
Bill & Wasabi (without me!)
1.36 miles

No pictures from today because I was at work while they were out wandering the dunes ... for their first ever solo!  He said she was just OK.  She'd do fine until the chorus of calls from home started up, then she'd get nervous.  So proud of the two of and for the two of them!

I am always fascinated by the color changes she goes through during the seasons so I snapped this shot of her hip last week ... she'll be steel grey around mid-April. Amazing.