Hook, Line and…

Posted inNOVA
Relax, only the" line" applies and it turned out good.  I'm alive to write the story! The iPhone "Weather" application said it was going to rain at noon and keep on raining today.  I called my riding buddy.  "She-who-will-remain-nameless" assured me that it would not rain and riding today will be really fun. Why I believed her, I will never know.  I had HOPE! I rode Nova and "She-who-will-remain-nameless" rode Velvet.  We were zipping along coming upon a small lake.  Before you could cook a goose, up came two geese from…

BFO DOG WALK!

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BFO = Blinding Flash of the Obvious.  We horse people have them every now and then. That's why our foreheads often get dented. Check out  my forehead the next time you see me.  Does it have a dent? Warning:  Non horse people and horse people with non-gaited horses are going to find this exceedingly dull. Gaited horse people are going to hang on every word and probably not breathe until I run out of words. I have an IQ over 100.  I've been understanding why the dog walk is so…

Nova is a Blessing

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Snow in Missouri.  Stacks and stacks of it.  My truck and trailer have been buried.  I forgot how to ride a horse in six weeks. This was a big day.  I got the truck and trailer out of the snow drifts.  Now to get the horse out of the barn.  There's still a foot of snow out there and it's hard to walk thru. I tried to open the barn door. Drat, the cord that hangs on the door was buried in 3" of ice.  I hacked and hacked with…

Four Outdoor Horse Hours

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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…

Feeling Your Body Freeze Means You Are Alive!

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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

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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…