Hope and I got to ride on the first crisp days of the Fall Weekend. Hope’s husband wondered if 50 degrees was going to be too cold for us to ride. ha! We are cowgirl trail riders (for a while yet..until it gets too cold for us)
Here’s Hope on Chip, a beautiful silver chocolate Rocky Mountain horse. Today, even the green alge was beautiful on one of the many lakes and ponds we ride by at James A. Reed park.
We had a great time in the windy crispy weather. Sadly, I’m riding one of my older Circle Y Flex Lite saddles and the difference was enough to make my unmentionable parts a little sore.
(below, Nova wonders whether blackened dead suflowers are good to eat!)
Then we rode again on Sunday. My unmentionable parts were sorely distressed at this assult and protested. Hope persuaded me to go on some longer parts of the trail which made the ride…longer and more painful.
Poor Hope. I started whining and grouching.
The only time it didn’t hurt to ride is when Nova was doing her flat foot walk and fox trot. ah…sigh… I love it. Gaited horses are the best… those gaits melt saddle sores!
During the much anticipated stretch back to the trailer…the running stretch… ha, Nova opened up her fox trot and gave me the fastest and smoothest fox trot ever. GPS said our fastest speed was 12 mph. WOWSA