Thursday, August 27, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Laurel's visit
Laurel came to visit us this weekend. We planned a little trail ride with some of our friends...we went to Rafter D's and met Karla and Fred there....they brought an extra mount so that we could all ride together. Laurel met John and rode him for the Trail Ride. John is a super good, mellow quarter horse that is very trustworthy. The ride didn't start off as "easy" as usual...Karla's little mule Pebbles was having a bad morning. They (Karla & Fred and their mules) ended up not making the ride with us, but they left John for us to use.
After the ride, George and Laurel rode the 4 wheeler. After checking the game camera, they decided to set a trap (live trap) for a raccoon...since there are 4 of them eating the deer corn. (They did manage to catch one...and transported it to another home).
They also did a little fishing on our pond...Laurel's first cast caught this handsome large mouth bass....After this it was time to fix dinner and settle in for the evening (George and Laurel fell asleep in the living room shortly after 9)
This morning, the last day of the visit, Laurel and George went for a little ride behind the house. They had some adventure as Goldie and Hat got a little skittish about something. Apparently Goldie made a quick retreat from the woods but Laurel didn't have a problem with it...she just kept on riding her.... Goldie is a little high strung sometimes and I worry about putting someone other than myself on her.... but she was doing great until she got spooked and according to Laurel she was fine after that too.
This is just a little parting shot of Goldie and Laurel at the end of their ride.
Soon we'll be taking Laurel home....and she and I are hoping to talk Uncle George into taking us to lunch somewhere on the way....
After the ride, George and Laurel rode the 4 wheeler. After checking the game camera, they decided to set a trap (live trap) for a raccoon...since there are 4 of them eating the deer corn. (They did manage to catch one...and transported it to another home).
They also did a little fishing on our pond...Laurel's first cast caught this handsome large mouth bass....After this it was time to fix dinner and settle in for the evening (George and Laurel fell asleep in the living room shortly after 9)
This morning, the last day of the visit, Laurel and George went for a little ride behind the house. They had some adventure as Goldie and Hat got a little skittish about something. Apparently Goldie made a quick retreat from the woods but Laurel didn't have a problem with it...she just kept on riding her.... Goldie is a little high strung sometimes and I worry about putting someone other than myself on her.... but she was doing great until she got spooked and according to Laurel she was fine after that too.
This is just a little parting shot of Goldie and Laurel at the end of their ride.
Soon we'll be taking Laurel home....and she and I are hoping to talk Uncle George into taking us to lunch somewhere on the way....
Monday, August 3, 2009
A little ride
This evening after work, Nicole and I took a little ride around the property on Goldie and Hat. It's the first time for Nicole and Goldie to ride together. I think we had a pretty good time.
If the weather holds, we're borrowing John the Quarter Horse from Karla and going for a ride at Rafter D's tomorrow.
Come back by for updates on Nicole's visit.
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