{"id":1360,"date":"2010-11-28T22:15:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T04:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2010-11-28T22:16:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T04:16:54","slug":"novas-notebook-trail-riding-is-on-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/novas-notebook-trail-riding-is-on-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova’s Notebook – Trail Riding is on Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wowsa Missouri Fox Trotters!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My friend Ken loves to rode.\u00a0 He is a rider. That’s the highest compliment I can bestow on a person.<\/p>\n

Hope on Velvet and I on Nova decided to double grace Ken’s life and let him ride with us at Lake Perry again.\u00a0 My last post was a statement of the rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let me repeat\u00a0my rules:<\/p>\n

Two hours
\nFlat places for going fast<\/p>\n

This ride Ken followed the rules.\u00a0 He found long stretches of flat land for us to go fast.\u00a0 Ah…sigh…<\/p>\n

Then he lead us into the forest where we had to go up and down those steep steep trails strewn with loose rocks.\u00a0 I don’t mind going up.\u00a0 I don’t feel like I’m going to die when we are climbing steep rock-strewn trails.\u00a0 But going down those trails leads me to think about death…my death…dashed on the rocks.<\/p>\n

So we went down one horrid long steep declince and I yelled at Ken…”That’s my last steep hill!”\u00a0 I meant it too.<\/p>\n

Luckily we were soon to come out right by the beautiful lake and Ken promised us a picnic table not far.\u00a0 A picnic table might be a vision you have for those affairs with food.\u00a0 Not me.\u00a0 A picnic table is a mounting block.\u00a0 I can get on and off my horse from a picnic table.<\/p>\n

As promised we came to the picnic table area of heaven.\u00a0 I got off and disappeared into the woods.\u00a0 We chatted for a while and then got back on.\u00a0 It was the best half way point I could have ever asked for.\u00a0 I could have even rode more than 2 hours, but I didn’t tell Ken that.\u00a0 Velvet and Nova were pretty tired.<\/p>\n

The picnic table was next to a road with wide grassy shoulders.\u00a0 We rode back following the road.\u00a0 We found our field and road thru several fields and then we were back at the trailers.\u00a0 I got to go as fast as I wanted for as far as I wanted.\u00a0 Oh a lovely ride.<\/p>\n

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Fox Trotters are Wonderful Trail Horses!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hope and Velvet were much better acquainted on their second ride.\u00a0 Hope got some nice stretches of gaited heaven in. She really enjoys riding Velvet. (Hope is a rider!)<\/p>\n

When we got back, and I mentioned again how I hate steep rock strewn downhill stretches, Ken complained just a little.\u00a0 He told me that when people go trail riding, they follow a trail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HUMPH!<\/p>\n

I’ve been pondering this philosophy for a couple days now.\u00a0 It sounds like a solid\u00a0reasonable rule.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But I still love flat land where you can go as fast as you want when you want to.<\/p>\n

What is a trail anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Ken loves to rode.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 My last post was a statement of the rules.\u00a0 Let me repeat\u00a0my rules: Two hours Flat places for going fast This ride Ken followed the rules.\u00a0 He found long stretches of flat land for us to go fast.\u00a0 Ah…sigh… Then he lead us into the forest where…<\/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":[76,4,5,70,120],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nova","category-velvet","tag-juliet","tag-missouri-fox-trotter","tag-nova-2","tag-trail-riding","tag-velvet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","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=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}