Month: May 2008

Sue - How Much Do You (and maybe me) Improve with Every Trail Ride? Trail Ride again today!  Just my good friend and I out in the one Kansas City area park that isn't too muddy to ride! Sue was calm going away from the trailer.  She was fairly calm when we made the turn and started back toward the trailer...calmer than she ever had been before! We had a couple of "startles" and I'm happy to report that the intensity of my reactionary "startle" has calmed down quite a bit.  Today,…

I rode Sue, the "How Do You Do Horse", today with friends. We picked our way through wretched mud, forded huge muddy puddles, walked on a damn by a huge stick-up grate with excess flowing roaring water. We were the lead horse for all the scary things in the park. We did really really well. Then we had the three big military helicopters find us. Of course some of you know how beautiful I am. I believe my beauty and the beautiful bay horses is what made the helicopters circle us at…