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GREY-9th ride this morning!

Today was "Grey's" 9th ride and he did very well. We did reining, poles, barrels, loping, water, etc. Here we are practicing our ground tying skills-A++ I left him for awhile and walked away pretty far~I zoomed in for the picture. I just LOVE a horse that ground ties.


Look no hands! He is not at all bothered by this! Right before she took the picture his ears were back listening to me!



Today we introduced the ball to him, no problem he says! My lovely little assistant rolls it into him from all sides and underneath-A++! And of course she takes alittle time to play while doing it!

My little assistant insisted on taking a picture of me and "Grey!!" I'm thinking he may also be alittle bit of a ham!!! LOL!


Little assistant climbs abroad to help with the cool down! She's also sporting a new gap~she lost another tooth this morning! Excuse the sweat! It was hot and the humidity was high this morning!

*Last but not least** This is for you Susan (aka Painted Promise)~I finally remembered to take a picture of the neighbor's donkeys for you! Right before I took the picture they were just a playing with each other! They sure are curious little boogers!!!

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

PLAYDAY

Yesterday was our monthly church play day! It wasn't too hot, as there was a nice breeze till the last event and then it started getting alittle warm. I hauled "Angel" & "Grey". "Grey" is a ~8 year old horse that I am putting 30 rides on. He has been turned out in the pasture for 2 1/2 + years and not sure of his training before that. Yesterday was his 5th ride. He did great, I'm very proud. The new owner was not happy with his neck reining, let me just say he didn't neck rein at all! Any who he did a great job on all the events which were poles, potato race and keyhole race. No pics from the potato race for some reason they all turned out blurred. We did 3 speed events yesterday, due to the heat. I took it slow and easy on him, we trotted the patterns and then slow loped home. There was alittle boy riding a pony that ran up his rear end and almost took my leg off and "Grey" just stood there, I was impressed! "Angel"~what can I say, she's my girl!! That was our best pole run we have ever done~1st place! Keyhole race~1st place and would have had 1st place in the potato race, but I knocked the barrel over! UGH! Dang knee~it was pilot error~I pulled her too close to the barrel! Oh well! All in all we had a great day and fun that is what counts!!

"Grey" doing poles~I normally don't like being this wide! But for him I was just glad he was neck reining! WOO HOO! And it was the first time he had done them!

Keyhole race~It is hard to see in the pic, but there is lime on the ground in the shape of a keyhole. The object is to walk your horse through the opening of the keyhole and spin them and come back out. You can not let your horse step out of the lime or it is a no time!


"Grey" did good on it~but when we he saw the lime on the ground he backed up and looked at it like-What is that? But I encouraged him on and he went in.


One wore out little cowgirl! I couldn't figure out why it was so quiet in the backseat and then I turned around and see this!

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WHERE ARE THEY??

Yesterday we got the call that cows were out, just great! It is 103 degrees then plus the heat index, in the middle of the day, UGH! So we caught horses, saddled and headed out. And yes we wore long sleeves, leggings and hats. You will see if you don't you will be cut from head to toe and more than likely get poison ivy!

Heading out~"Roo" striking a pose for the camera! We had just entered neighbor's pasture at this gate.

Riding threw the clear cut looking for signs of cows, none! Just a bunch of feathers! (he used chicken manure!) Hubby trying to cut his way through the vines. Needless to say his place is overgrown! I am a nice wife and let hubby go first! Doesn't always work as I had to cut myself and "Angel" free a couple of times!

Wait what is that I see? I think it is one of the wild bovines we are looking for! Oh and look there is more!

We finally saw the cows~they had brushed up in the woods. So I went to may spot and hubby went to find a way to get behind them and push them out. My job is to be seen and count the cows! When he got all of them out, we started easing them through the pasture and back around to the gate. I had to put my camera up as I had to run ahead and open the gate! We got all the cows back to where they belonged and didn't get heat stroke doing it! LOL!! We had been checking fence as we were riding through our place to get to the neighbor's gate and hadn't seen any fence down. Come to find out he had just had some of his place clear cut and had planted some hay and the workers (idiots!) had left the gate open. That is good news to find out, as that means we were done and didn't have to fix fence!!! Woo Hoo!

AN AWARD

Mrs. Mom from Oh Horse Feathers and Shirley from Ride a Good Horse passed along a award to me. Thanks so much ladies I truly enjoy each of your blogs and checking in with ya!

Mrs. Mom~what can I say? I love ya girl!! You're not scared to say it like it is! Love it! We could get into some real trouble if we lived closer! 2 horse crazy, gun totting wommins! LOL!!

Shirley-love your blog as well~dogs, horses and your country is beautiful! I could just squeeze Peppy~he is the cutest foal!

I know I'm supposed to pass it along, but I think everyone has already gotten it! If you have not, please take one for yourself and pass it along. Every one's blogs that I read I enjoy them so much and they all are deserving of this award!

Have a great Friday and don't get into too much trouble! I'm praying for some rain, it is so dry and humid and hot here!