Today I put the 14th ride on "Grey." (we are alittle behind on our rides due to the mega rain we got this past week!) We did our normal work: reining, pattern work, loping and lead changes. I got him pretty hot and thought well we will just go down the road to cool off and see what we find! And it is way more fun than cooling down in our boring pasture! Change of scenery is a great thing! 
We have great big bar ditches, so you don't have to ride right up on the road. He's spotted something in the distance! What is it you may ask? A man mowing his ditch. We passed a dead armadillo as well and tons of truckers driving by honking! I think I knew about half of them and the others you just never know about! LOL!!
Bridge #2~this is at a entrance of a real nice house on the highway. I love this bridge, it is wooden and open underneath, with water flowing. So it makes some noise when they go across, great training tool! He never slowed down and it didn't seem to faze him! *This house reminds me of a racehorse training facility. Never been done in there to see what it looks like though, they moved in from the city. It has a gated entrance, equipped with locks, speaker box and a monitor! High tech I tell ya!! One of these days they are going to come over the speaker and ask me what in the world am I doing and tell me to stay off there bridge!
"Grey" is like I think I know you? This is the colt that lives at his house. Every time we pass his house he looks over and says Hi! LOL! Right after we visited we started our way back home. There is a nice piece of open area, so I kicked him over into a nice lope and we headed home. And guess who we passed? The owner~he was honking and just waving away! LOL!! By the time I made it home, he was pulling in to my driveway! He came down to check on our progress and tell us how good we were looking! LOL! I'm so glad he is happy with the way he is progressing. Now back to housework and trying to get caught up around here!
