Nova’s Notebook – Trail Riding is on Trails

November 28, 2010Posted inNOVA, Velvet
My friend Ken loves to rode.  He is a rider. That's the highest compliment I can bestow on a person. Hope on Velvet and I on Nova decided to double grace Ken's life and let him ride with us at Lake Perry again.  My last post was a statement of the rules.  Let me repeat my rules: Two hours Flat places for going fast This ride Ken followed the rules.  He found long stretches of flat land for us to go fast.  Ah...sigh... Then he lead us into the forest where…

Trail Rules – Everyone has rules!

November 20, 2010Posted inNOVA, Velvet
Ken, Hope and I rode a small portion of Lake Perry. Kansas, trails today.  I gave Ken my rules about trail riding.  It's gotta be 2 hours, It's got to be in the high 40's and There's gotta be flat land on which to go fast. He had great success with rules one and two.  We didn't have much flat land upon which to go fast. Oh well.  Other than the last part where we couldn't find a trail back to our trailers and we were lost for seemingly, hours - It was…

Friday thru Monday Happiness

November 15, 2010Posted inNOVA, Powder, Velvet
Just singing my happiness living my life with horses. Friday was wonderful.  Powder came home from her 30 days of training with Tony and Jennifer Vaught.  It was good to have her back in the pasture again.  Powder and Velvet had never met.  Powder didn't move fast enough to suit Velvet, so Powder lost some hair. She's very aware of Velvet now. Friday was lesson night.  I have my winter goals for  with Nova.  We are to trail walk with head down until she is really relaxed.  You remember that…

Redhead Stretchy Rainwear-Pants

November 12, 2010Posted inMiscellaneous
Oh my goodness are these Redhead StretchyRain Pants amazing!  The fact that I own a pair now is all due to Hope. She was bragging about her wonderful rainpants that she bought at Wal-Mart.  She even wanted to go riding in the rain!  That's usually against our religion.  I thought I should get as techy as Hope, but instead of Wal-Mart, I went to Bass Pro Shop. Just so you know, I have dark blue stretchy rain paints.  If I had bought the cameo pants, no one could see my legs…

Velvet’s Trail Ride Journey

November 7, 2010Posted inVelvet
  Two days of trail riding with bow hunters in the same park.  Are we horse riders crazy?  Yes, absolutely, without a doubt. Saturday, I rode Velvet alone in the park. We were destroyed by a run-away quivering cameo tent.  Yes, one of those little tents that practically erects its self was tethered to brush besides the trail.  It quivered in the wind.  We were rescued by another rider who rides in the park for 3-5 hours three times a week.  His mare is bomb proof.  So, we rode together on the…

Shetlands, Large Pony and American Saddlebred

November 4, 2010Posted inMiscellaneous
Let's take a walk down memory lane. My life with equines started in 1952. In 1952 I asked my Daddy if I could have a pony. He acted very sad and told me that he couldn't afford to buy a pony. He cleverly told me to ask my grandfather...as a joke.. .never suspecting that his life was going to be a series of pony-hell from then on. "Yes" my grandfather said, "I'll buy you a pony. My mother found Cricket and she was in foal. Pony in foal with hand…