{"id":1331,"date":"2010-11-20T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2010-11-22T19:47:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T01:47:27","slug":"nova-and-velvet-on-the-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/nova-and-velvet-on-the-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Rules &#8211; Everyone has rules!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1332\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2010\/11\/nova-and-velvet-on-the-trail\/nova_velvet-11-10\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1332  aligncenter\" title=\"Hope and Velvet; Susan and Nova\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nova_Velvet-11-10-350x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nova_Velvet-11-10-350x262.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nova_Velvet-11-10-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nova_Velvet-11-10.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken, Hope and I rode a small portion of Lake Perry. Kansas,\u00a0trails today.\u00a0 I gave Ken\u00a0my rules about trail riding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s gotta be 2 hours,<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s got to be in the high 40&#8217;s and<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s gotta be flat land on which to go fast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He had great success with rules one and two.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t have much flat land upon which to go fast.<br \/>\nOh well.\u00a0 Other than the last part where we couldn&#8217;t find a trail back to our trailers and we were lost for\u00a0seemingly, hours &#8211; It was a great day.<\/p>\n<p>We found the trail head and it had been exactly two hours!\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1353\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1353\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2010\/11\/nova-and-velvet-on-the-trail\/susankenatperrylake11-21-10\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1353\" title=\"Ken and Stormy - Susan and Nova\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SusanKenatPerryLake11-21-10-350x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SusanKenatPerryLake11-21-10-350x257.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SusanKenatPerryLake11-21-10-400x294.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SusanKenatPerryLake11-21-10.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riding at Lake Perry, November 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ken&#8217;s rule is that you have to ride for at least as long as the pickup\/trailer drive to and from the trail. We met his rule too!<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Nova&#8217;s rule is that she gets to mess with the other horses on the ride.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1335\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2010\/11\/nova-and-velvet-on-the-trail\/velvet-chips_saddle\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1335  aligncenter\" title=\"Velvet with Hope's treeless saddle outfit\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Velvet-Chips_saddle-350x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Velvet-Chips_saddle-350x262.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Velvet-Chips_saddle-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Velvet-Chips_saddle.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Velvet&#8217;s rule is that she must eat and boss everyone around.\u00a0 She was forced to bring up the rear on this trail ride and there wasn&#8217;t very much green stuff in the forest.<\/p>\n<p>Hope has a wish-rule about flush toilets.\u00a0 The park didn&#8217;t meet\u00a0her rule and even lacked pit toilets at the trailhead. But Hope had a great time too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken, Hope and I rode a small portion of Lake Perry. Kansas,\u00a0trails today.\u00a0 I gave Ken\u00a0my rules about trail riding.\u00a0 It&#8217;s gotta be 2 hours, It&#8217;s got to be in the high 40&#8217;s and There&#8217;s gotta be flat land on which to go fast. He had great success with rules one and two.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t have much flat land upon which to go fast. Oh well.\u00a0 Other than the last part where we couldn&#8217;t find a trail back to our trailers and we were lost for\u00a0seemingly, hours &#8211; It was&hellip;<\/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":[3,16],"tags":[30,75,7,5,6,120],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nova","category-velvet","tag-fox-trotter","tag-hope-robinson","tag-natural-horsemanship","tag-nova-2","tag-susan-engle","tag-velvet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}