We rode at James A Reed (JAR) today and discovered it was National Hunting and Fishing Day.\u00a0 JAR was celebrating that.\u00a0 They had a field set up for skeet shooting.\u00a0 Coincidentially, it was right next to one of the trails that we ride.\u00a0 We turned around, but a park guy was right there and told us happily that they would be shooting in the field but the trails were open.<\/p>\n
Obviously, he isn’t a horse person.\u00a0 But we were there early and they were just setting up for the skeet shooting, so we did ride beside the guys setting up the machines that hurl the targets high in the air.\u00a0 When we returned to our starting point, we could here the guns being fired.<\/p>\n
Then there was the archery target spot. Thankfully, it was too early for that also and we had no problem with archers.\u00a0 I hear bow and arrow deer hunting is right around the corner.\u00a0 We had lot’s of fun last year with the deer stands and the invisible hunters cameouflaged. The thing that scared us most last year was a run-away cameo tent and a deer hunting cameouflaged “house” for the disabled.\u00a0 I’ll have stories to come<\/p>\n
We took a quick spin around the park.\u00a0 I am getting Sage to respond to my reins for her head set position and not to pace when I ask her to go faster.\u00a0 Pacing isn’t very much fun on a gaited horse.\u00a0 It’s fun to work this all out with Sage. She’s been a beginning lesson horse for such a long time and probably few people have asked her to ride with concentrated reins. This is like pulling an old cadilac out of the backyard and asking for it to become a 2011 new cadillac.<\/p>\n
Hope and Chip are doing wonderful on the trail. Chip has smoothed out his gait. Hope is no longer moaning with pain. She has learned how to ask Chip for smoothness when he gets pacy or trotty.\u00a0 Chip also has developed impulsion.\u00a0 No longer is he the sticky to go forward horse. Hope asks Chip to speed up and he responds.\u00a0 That is a delight.<\/p>\n
We are having fun for certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We rode at James A Reed (JAR) today and discovered it was National Hunting and Fishing Day.\u00a0 JAR was celebrating that.\u00a0 They had a field set up for skeet shooting.\u00a0 Coincidentially, it was right next to one of the trails that we ride.\u00a0 We turned around, but a park guy was right there and told us happily that they would be shooting in the field but the trails were open. Obviously, he isn’t a horse person.\u00a0 But we were there early and they were just setting up for the skeet…<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","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=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}