The afternoon after lunch looked good to ride my beautiful Fancy. \u00a0Terry and I got home. \u00a0I changed into riding clothes and went out to get Fancy. \u00a0I was going to ride in my nearby arena, first time since last Monday. \u00a0We have been in heat hell here, too hot to ride.<\/p>\n
I got Fancy in the trailer and looked for Emma to get her in the house. \u00a0Oh, she must be in the house. \u00a0Sometimes she goes into the house before I get Terry and his wheelchair inside. \u00a0Fancy and I took off. \u00a0Hmmm, gates were closed at arena, it’s difficult to squeeze truck and trailer into the space available to park so I can open the gate. \u00a0I decided to return home and ride there. \u00a0Heck, it’s not raining yet and I really want to continue riding at home. \u00a0Even though it rained and pasture would be too wet, I have my long driveway and a half mile of road. \u00a0I’ve never ridden Fancy on my road, nor Lucky, nor Cisco. \u00a0I am an arena loving girl.<\/p>\n
I came back and parked in front of the house. \u00a0I went in and called for Emma. \u00a0No Emma. \u00a0I searched the house. \u00a0No Emma. Good Lord! \u00a0Was she outdoors when I left in the trailer? \u00a0I hollered her name. \u00a0I walked to barn, yelling her name. Maybe she followed me when I left with the truck and trailer. \u00a0She\u2019s lost! \u00a0Suddenly, I wondered if she had gotten out of the car when we came back from lunch. \u00a0GodDang! \u00a0Emma was in the car. \u00a0It was hot enough that she probably would have died of head in the car if I had rode in the arena for my normal hour. \u00a0Emma hopped out, seemingly unaffected. \u00a0Terry and I have a new rule, \u201cMake Certain Emma gets out of the minivan when I open the door.\u201d \u00a0Our other rule is \u201cMake certain I put the credit card back in my purse at the restaurant.\u201d<\/p>\n
I saddled Fancy with the truck and trailer parked in front of the house. \u00a0I did the mandatory three saddle cinch tightenings with the mandatory canter. \u00a0She did canter both ways on a circle. \u00a0I have one nice large driveway area, big enough for her to canter on the gravel with the 12 foot rope.<\/p>\n
I mounted from the trailer fender and off we flat foot walked down the driveway to the road. \u00a0What a time. \u00a0We went far enough on the road, but not to the end of the road where the skate park is located. \u00a0We turned around and fox trotted back. \u00a0This is heaven! \u00a0It was such fun. \u00a0I decided to do it again. \u00a0Fancy was fine when we turned around. \u00a0She gaited, but tried to veer off the road. \u00a0So I let her ride on the grass. \u00a0She liked that better. \u00a0Hmmm, she does have shoes on and the gravel road is smooth. \u00a0Oh well. \u00a0About half way up the road, she decided to stop and resisted my signal for forward movement. \u00a0Oh boy! \u00a0Fancy is arguing. \u00a0This is so much like Lucky Star, the Horse of No. \u00a0Fancy argue doesn’t have a chance with the pro Susan. \u00a0We did a hindquarter turn, go forward and No. We did a forequarter turn, go forward and No. \u00a0We did a few more tries of the turn with no success at forward. \u00a0So we backed up the road. \u00a0We turned around with her choice of going forward and it was a No. \u00a0We backed three times and on the third backing, she went forward. \u00a0I didn’t kick or beat her. \u00a0I won BIG TIME (Thank you Lucky Star for all my lessons)! \u00a0We rode to the same spot where I turned before and returned back to the home driveway. \u00a0I got off, took off her bridle and saddle and tried to have undemanding time with her on the rope and while I sat in my chair. \u00a0Sadly, my grass isn’t clover like at the arena. \u00a0She wasn’t excited or happy to eat normal grass. \u00a0She has all the grass she wants in the pasture.<\/p>\n
I took her back to her pasture and let her go.<\/p>\n
Later in early evening when we normally go to eat, it rained. \u00a0I wore my famous rain coat, Ole Yellow. \u00a0When we walked into the Wine Stop, a customer told me she love my rain coat. \u00a0I was taken aback, but strutted Ole Yellow like on a runway! \u00a0I kept thinking about the Ole Yellow story in one of my books. \u00a0What book was it? \u00a0Luckily, I made the Wine Stop display all my books. \u00a0Before the food came, I went and looked thru the books. \u00a0I found the Ole Yellow story in The Horse of NO. \u00a0I showed it to the customer and told her how amazed I was when she complimented Ole Yellow. \u00a0I bought Ole Yellow in the 80’s or early 90’s before moving to the country. \u00a0It is an old and wonderful Raincoat.<\/p>\n
On the way out, the customer was still there. \u00a0I put on Ole Yellow and made the customer touch it to feel how nice it was. \u00a0I hope the customer will return to The Wine Stop where the crazy woman lurks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The afternoon after lunch looked good to ride my beautiful Fancy. \u00a0Terry and I got home. \u00a0I changed into riding clothes and went out to get Fancy. \u00a0I was going to ride in my nearby arena, first time since last Monday. \u00a0We have been in heat hell here, too hot to ride. I got Fancy in the trailer and looked for Emma to get her in the house. \u00a0Oh, she must be in the house. \u00a0Sometimes she goes into the house before I get Terry and his wheelchair inside. \u00a0Fancy…<\/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":[116,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emma","category-fancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377","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=7377"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7384,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377\/revisions\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}