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This has been one active week...let me tell ya!...which is what summer is all about! Right? Absolutely! I have a ton of stuff to share with you...but I'll stick with our horsey-highlights for this post....and catch up with more in my next posts...if I can ever get to them. But I'll try...I promise!

Wednesday we went over to the Dow's to ride Heather's 2 horses, Babe and Reno (which happen to be rescued Mustangs from Nevada), over to our land so that they can start grazing the front part down. We burned the grass this Spring and the clover and Timothy grass that has come up is really AMAZING. It's up to my waist in most areas...and over our little Asheley's head!

With all the rain, the haying is way behind...but we're hoping to get ours cut perhaps  tomorrow or the next day...before the next batch of rain is supposed to roll in again. We've been camping out over on our land several days this week, too, and the kiddos are lovin' it!

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So, of course, more riding was in order before we trekked over to our land. Our little Heather was up first on Babe...
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Then it was Caitlyn's turn...
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Now Asheley...who also happens to be living in her new cowgirl boots we picked up at the thrift store a couple of weeks ago. They even go with her PJs at bedtime!
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And Andrew's turn at trotting...My friend Heather's getting more of a workout than she bargained for! All of the kiddos want to trot now...and keep on trotting!
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And now it's finally my turn on Babe. Heather's giving me some pointers here...and I'll take as many as I can get...believe me!
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But Babe is an easy ride...she's got a nice easy canter...and a lovely jig trot that I could literally do all day long! And she's very sweet besides...wants to please!
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Now Heather's brought Reno out and is getting him warmed up. She's done incredible things with these horses since she's gotten them. All of her hard work is definitely paying off now! And I just get to enjoy it all! Yippee!
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Ready to head out. We went for a short trail ride down Sawyer Rd. then headed over to our land where the horses have been happily munching on lots and lots of grass.  Now we just need to get our Babycakes over as well!
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On Friday we had another little adventure when our neighbors, the Grant's, cow got out at 3:00 in the morning....so they were out in the dark with flashlights  searching the fields in the fog...and she was still missing the next day. Their daughter, Eliza, saddled up her horse....Heather and I saddled up Babe and Reno...and with all the other kiddos on bicycles and scooters....we took off across the fields to look for Abigail...the very naughty cow!

We saw her footprints going west toward the hay fields and woods...by the way, there are no fences and acres and acres of woods...so that cow could've been anywhere in the surrounding county. Turns out she was just a couple of fields over...munching in the hay field and staying close to the shade of the trees...which of course she darted into the minute she caught sight of us!

After quite the theatrical cow chase...that should've been video-taped....they finally got the lead rope hooked to her halter and she decided she had to FINALLY  behave herself and come along home. So it was 3 horses, the gaggle of bicycles and scooters, a 4-wheeler, and several on foot with a big blue bucket of feed leading a very, very naughty Abigail back down the road to home sweet home. Then it was time for a big splash in the Grant's pool! All's well that ends well. Did I ever mention that I LOVE this country life?? : D
 


Comments

Nina

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:00:56

What lovely pictures. Sounds like a very very fine weekend.
And I just loved that naughty-cow story.
It actually reminded me of my own childhood.
A real neighbour-gathering!!!

 

Carole Hayes

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:26:12

 

carole

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:27:21

THAT didn't work at all!! (I hit enter too soon, and it TOOK it!)

Anyway...

Just had to tell you: you look like a total cowgirl, riding that horse!! (And I love the naughty cow story!) : )

 

Deb

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:46:25

Thanks! I'll always be a TX cowgirl at heart...even when I do ride English! And I'm glad ya'll liked the 'Abigail Adventure'...it was a hoot! : D

 

Karen

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:58:43

What an adventure! I'm playing catch-up with your blog after some time away from home and computer.
I'm so glad to hear that the children are riding. I've discovered a whole new set of muscles after a trail and bareback ocean ride this week. If I'd grown up riding I probably would have been far less sore now. = D
Your photos are beautiful and I thoroughly enjoyed the cow hunt story.

 



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