Four Outdoor Horse Hours

December 18, 2010Posted inNOVA
Thank you Jennifer Vaught for the great lesson and the fun time riding with great friends. Great friends, a great teacher and great horses.  The greats pile up! We rode slow with occasional times of speed and many rest periods.  We didn't want sweat. OK, most of the four hours wasn't outdoors.  Most of it was in an indoor arena. Someone did forget to turn on the furnace.  I left home at 11:30 and came back at 4:00.  The lesson was from 1:00-3:00, but it always runs longer. We did toast up in the…

Muck Boots and Dollar Store…and great old Xmas Pictures

December 17, 2010Posted inMiscellaneous
Tonight I got all ready to ride outside.  I thought that I could wear three pair of socks with my muck boots.  Muck boots are rubber.  They stretch.  Oh, I forgot to mention that I have heat generating insoles already placed inside my muck boots. As I live and breathe, three pairs of extra heavy socks plus the heat generating insoles were too much for the muck boots. They didn't stretch.  They just squeezed my feet and cut off my heat generating insole device. Tomorrow, I'm going for two extra…

Winter at the Computer – Yeccha

December 12, 2010Posted inPride's Traveling John John (JJ)
I do love making web sites.  I do love advertising horses.  I do love updating my web sites and finding new stuff that the software developers have added to make my experience better. I use angelfire.com for my web sites.  It's an old friend. Recently they have updated the place where I can almost make a pretty web site do anything I want without having to do the entire site in html coding. I'm in the process of making Prides Traveling John John's new web page.  There are glitches, but…

New Weight Loss with Horses Plan!

December 7, 2010Posted inMiscellaneous
Ride after Work to Size 12 Here's what I came up with... The plan is that I come home from work in the dark, miserable weather.  I put a horse into the trailer and drive to Pine Dell stable and ride. I come home frozen, take care of the horses and eat a few bites on my way into the shower to unfreeze my body parts.  Try on a size 12 shirt.  Hit the bed and sleep for the next day to come. Repeat until size 12 shirt buttons. See how this…

Feeling Your Body Freeze Means You Are Alive!

December 4, 2010Posted inVelvet
I'm getting old enough now to really appreciate being alive and being able to ride. Here's Velvet and I riding in front of Jazz and Hope.  I heard Hope talking and knew she was filming! Velvet and facing into a freezing gusty wind today, Boy Howdy...full alert life up on that one!  Having my body parts freeze today was a good reminder of being alive.  I suppose my feet froze last year, but I don't remember that feeling.  I suppose my thighs froze last year, but I don't remember that feeling…

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…