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Vacation Over, back to Winter
Seem our nice warm vacation from the cold nasty winter is over. Now we are back to snow, more snow over very slick Yikes! So I decided to was time to put on the Studs! So I found my easy-boots, drilled holes and inserted studs into Monet’s boots. Then of course we went for a ride. The studs worked fine but we did slip on the back end some after all I suspected it was really slippery. in the next few days I will try and find another pare of easy-boots and get some more studs inserted. Can’t let a little Ice stop us from riding at all!!! We just have to plan for it. Johnny, who I am training right now has ice shoes on it its really nice riding him. Here he is looking back at Monet and me was we were walking a lot slower than he was.
Attach is a story that happen on Saturday, just to make things interesteing around here.
A Sense of Humor
You Know, I think God must have a sense of humor and he must like watch over us here just to see what kind of trouble we can get into and then he helps us get out of it just fine. Like today when I yelled at Monet for jumping almost out from under me but she really didn’t go anywhere, she just jumped. I didn’t see any reason for it but she was sniffing around. I told her to get walking, THEN I looked to my right and calmly told Kris to look too for we had a Moose and baby about 20 feet from us, just watching us following our little path through the woods. I’m not sure the horses really saw the Moose until they moved but they did smell them. Or how about the other day when I’m riding this horse I got for training in for he was a little excited, barn sour, rears and kind of bolts out of control. I was riding him down the rode when my bit fell out of his mouth! He didn’t go anything, just stopped when I slid off to fit my bit back. Glad that moose didn’t show up right THEN! If you look close, you can see the bit hanging underneath the horse!
Well I think our warm weather is about to leave and it’s back to winter for a few more weeks, ok maybe months but SOOOO all this white stuff will go away and we will be back on the trails again.
Here’s the Story to go with the bit! Having fun and working too
The end of the weekend
Well this has been a nice weekend. Horses and folks alike were tired. As I’m sitting at my computer typing this us, I hear the wind howing outside. Boy I sure hope it stops by Morning but at least we actually got a good weekend of riding in.
Here’s another of my terrible written stories about our adventurs this weekend.
Hope you all have a good week and remember, we will soon all be riding together!! Winter is going to END.
Interesting Riding
This nice warm weather (30+) is making for some interesting rides. Today Kris and I went out for a little ride on CC and Monet and both horses were a bit jumps. Kris had Just assured CC there was noting in the woods beside us when I spotted a Moose about 100 yards away and informed them. We think CC said ” told you so”. Both horses were Ok with this Moore for it wasn’t moving. However when we got to the edge of the wood, CC was in front and all of a suddent She did a leap in the air and spur around to STARE at Monet, we think CC thought Monet was that Moose and it had come to EAT her!! When se got a good look, she shook her head and turned back around pretty much on her own and down the road we went. The horses stayed in Alert mode but nother else materialized to scare them. I do believe I had a moose near the front of the horse barn night before last, eating from the round bales. Usually Moose doen’t come into that section of the property but this year anyplace that not got 10 feet of snow, or at least it seems like that much is fair game.
Finally!!!
Ground Hog day was another good riding day. Kris and I went out and did battle with some snowdrifts in the woods. Wish I had gotten a picture of it. CC was leading, Monet and I were following when CC stepped into a deep, soft drift. First she tried to dig her self out. Kris jumped off and was in snow up to her hips. I jumped off Monet and also landed in deep snow. As we were struggling, laughing and trying to get our horses to turn around, the horses kept pushing us into the deep snow with their noses! We would just about get back on our feet and one or the other would give us a push, pushing us off balance and making us fall back over in the snow. Now remember we were laughing REALLY Hard. It was amazing for the horses were very careful not to step on us. Sometimes were under the horse’s front feet for of course under the snow, there were stuff we couldn’t see and we would fall all which direction. Well we got out of that spot and did manage to blaze a trail all the way around our circle so Today I hope to go riding again. Of course its snowing like MAD!
Below is a Valentine Story I wrote. Its not actually closely related to horses but it is funny ! Hope you enjoy it.
A Funny Valentine to Remember ( click on the Blue to Read) If you like it, go to magic989fm.com and vote on It. I actually posted this link to their site For I thought it was really cute!!!
The Last day of January and we finally get a nice day for riding. Doesn’t it look good, seeing our smiling backs again?
It felt so good to be riding and not freezing!!!
In Fact, its been sooooo bad that on Saturday, when the girls are here and we normally go riding, Monet didn’t want to come down from her resting spot in the sun.
Blue on the other hand said,
as long as I got food, I don’t care.
Well we are suppose to have a better week coming with temps ABOVE ZERO!!!
I posted the rest of today’s pictures on Facebook, EZ Walking Stables.
Moose, Monet and Me
I’ve always teased that Monet looks a lot like a moose. Well today I had proof. While out riding, there was a jogger coming towards us. When she saw Monet and Me she Almost darted the other way!. I yelled out, Hey we are not a moose, and the lady held her ground but she looked very nervous!!! Like Maybe she was afraid a moose ( with a rider) had learned to speak English!
See attached story for the rest of the day’s events
More pictures on Facebook! EZ Walking Stables
WED. morning the Moose Monsters came Back! I’m standing in the living room looking out at the horses, wondering why they are staring at the house when Roy looks out the front window and sees the 3 moose in the yard. Before I could grab my camera, almost all th horses were standing at the fence. it was cool, looked like they were watching a show going on at the house.
Now the moose and her twins were wondering around eating the trees but not too warried about Roy and I who steped out onto the back porch. She never put up her hackles, even at the dogs who had to bark but came when called. Pictures aren’t the best. The moose were too far away this dark morning for my camera and it took a few minutes to get the better camera ready to shoot. No battaries or memory card! Now if I could just get Roy to leave it put together!
Wind? Where I don’t see any Wind
That’s because I can’t keep my eyes open outside due to all the blowing snow, trees and who know what. But the Ride in the Barn on Sat was NICE and Warm!
Part of the fun and excitement of horses is the relationship we develop with the horse. On Sat Night we had a wonderful ride at the 
barn but the cool down was fun too as you can see from the pictures. I’ll post more pictures on Face-book.
So I finally established a Face-book page that will allow me to post Lots of Pictures and short snips when I want to. AND folks are welcome to comment. The Face-book page is called EZ Walking Stables.
P.S. If you know of anybody looking for a nice Walking Mule, I know of one for sale.