Back in the early years of Velvet and I is the memory of the back property trail ride.\u00a0 Oh my goodness<\/p>\n
My new best friend, Lanie,\u00a0brought her horse, Sparkles,\u00a0and her husband, Tim, over to the house. Husbands went to the shop. Horsewomen got on their horses. We were exploring my 20 acres of forest, creek, glen and glade and then we\u00a0explored the neighbors acres. \u00a0 Oh what a marvelous time were Lanie and I having on our horses, Sparkles and Velvet.<\/p>\n
We came upon\u00a0Big Creek running thru north\/south thru\u00a0the property.\u00a0 We came right down a slight hill to the creek. We could get right in it. We\u00a0decided the stream was an easy way to get back to my property instead of going back through the forest path.\u00a0 Boy howdy! We were walking through the stream and came to a bit of a deeper place.\u00a0\u00a0Suddenly, Velvet decided to leap out of the stream up on the bank.\u00a0 Well, Sparkles decided that was a good idea too. Sparkles leaped up and landed\u00a0right beside Velvet on the bank of the creek.<\/p>\n
Lanie and I were both on our horses.\u00a0 That was nice.\u00a0 That was nice until Velvet and Sparkles tried to move.\u00a0 No moving because their legs had sunk into deep mud…right up to their front knee.<\/p>\n
Velvet and Sparkles thrashed without anything happening. They were struggling to get their legs out of the mud.<\/p>\n
Velvet decided to give a huge lung upwards.\u00a0 She reared with a ton and a half of power. She got free of the mud. But physics dictated that my body fly into the air backwards.\u00a0 I landed in the deep part of the stream.\u00a0 I submerged!\u00a0 My head was under water!!!<\/p>\n
I worried that Velvet’s body would crush me. Thank God she stayed on her feet and clammored out of the mud.<\/p>\n
Oh, I forgot to mention that this day was a chilly 40 degree fall day and I was wet from head to boots.<\/p>\n
I managed to fly out of the water to the bank.\u00a0 Sparkles had toppled over sideways…on Lanie’s leg.\u00a0 Then Sparkles was free of the mud and got up..without stepping on Lanie.<\/p>\n
I asked Lanie laying on the ground, “Are you all right?!” She replied, “HELL NO”!<\/p>\n
Turns out Lanie had a car accident earlier in her life and this was the bad leg. She has a titanium knee and this was the leg that was crushed by 1100 lbs of horse.<\/p>\n
Lanie drug herself up and dragged herself over to a tree. She clung there for a while telling me about her titanium knee between clenched teeth moans.<\/p>\n
Then Lanie got on Sparkles.\u00a0 I got on Velvet.\u00a0 Yes, we were tough.<\/p>\n
Probably a total of 30 minutes had gone by since we left our lovely husbands playing in the shop.<\/p>\n
Here comes the wives, wet and hurting.<\/p>\n
Later that evening we went to Jenny’s birthday party at Pine Dell. We got to tell our story.<\/p>\n
“What do you do with horses?\u00a0 I’m just a trail rider!”\u00a0 When you hear someone say, “I’m just a trail rider.”\u00a0 Smack them a good one. Trail riding can go from fun to disaster in a blink of an eyelash.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0Lanie died from lung cancer some\u00a0years later and she is missed every day.\u00a0 RIP, Lanie<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back in the early years of Velvet and I is the memory of the back property trail ride.\u00a0 Oh my goodness My new best friend, Lanie,\u00a0brought her horse, Sparkles,\u00a0and her husband, Tim, over to the house. Husbands went to the shop. Horsewomen got on their horses. We were exploring my 20 acres of forest, creek, glen and glade and then we\u00a0explored the neighbors acres. \u00a0 Oh what a marvelous time were Lanie and I having on our horses, Sparkles and Velvet. We came upon\u00a0Big Creek running thru north\/south thru\u00a0the property.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[72,71,73,70,120],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-velvet","tag-lanie-thurmond","tag-missouri-fox-trotters","tag-sparkles","tag-trail-riding","tag-velvet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}