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Feb. 14th, 2005 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightIt was a Sunday.
1. I only ride on Sundays, so I finally got a chance to try out the bridle I bought on Tuesday. I don't know who State Line designs this stuff for, but the bit was hanging down to his front teeth on the shortest setting. I ran home for my soldering iron, and put 5 new holes on each side just to get it to fit. (Nylon webbing - foop foop foop - but the soldering iron may be trash afterwards.)
We started out 4th in a group of 5 riders, then we split off with another horse. Even though Cheyenne and Shower are Jerk-boy #1 and Jerk-boy #2, they're both better without a lot of other horses ahead of them - solo or in small groups. Shower used to be a race horse. Cheyenne - I don't know what his problem is; he came from Bobby's Ranch, so he was presumably used as a trail horse.
Anyway, with just the two of us, Jerk-boy was better behaved. He managed the slow working trot and slow working canter that I'd been working on in the ring. And he was less lathered than Shower when we got back.
2. By the time I was done at the barn, I was way late for the Arisia Debriefing. Checked the agenda - of my two jobs, one was roughly at 3:25, and I'd already missed it; the other was at roughly 4:00, and I wasn't going to get there on time. So I blew it off. There were a few people it would have been nice to see, but oh well.
3. We took out the Christmas tree. I know, I know, it's only 7 weeks after Christmas, but a few of the branches had started to get a little dry. Still better than most parking-lot trees on the day after Christmas. Tossed it on the brush pile at the back of the property, on top of the rise overlooking the swamp where they want to build 7 new McMansions. Bleh. But it was a good Christmas tree.
1. I only ride on Sundays, so I finally got a chance to try out the bridle I bought on Tuesday. I don't know who State Line designs this stuff for, but the bit was hanging down to his front teeth on the shortest setting. I ran home for my soldering iron, and put 5 new holes on each side just to get it to fit. (Nylon webbing - foop foop foop - but the soldering iron may be trash afterwards.)
We started out 4th in a group of 5 riders, then we split off with another horse. Even though Cheyenne and Shower are Jerk-boy #1 and Jerk-boy #2, they're both better without a lot of other horses ahead of them - solo or in small groups. Shower used to be a race horse. Cheyenne - I don't know what his problem is; he came from Bobby's Ranch, so he was presumably used as a trail horse.
Anyway, with just the two of us, Jerk-boy was better behaved. He managed the slow working trot and slow working canter that I'd been working on in the ring. And he was less lathered than Shower when we got back.
2. By the time I was done at the barn, I was way late for the Arisia Debriefing. Checked the agenda - of my two jobs, one was roughly at 3:25, and I'd already missed it; the other was at roughly 4:00, and I wasn't going to get there on time. So I blew it off. There were a few people it would have been nice to see, but oh well.
3. We took out the Christmas tree. I know, I know, it's only 7 weeks after Christmas, but a few of the branches had started to get a little dry. Still better than most parking-lot trees on the day after Christmas. Tossed it on the brush pile at the back of the property, on top of the rise overlooking the swamp where they want to build 7 new McMansions. Bleh. But it was a good Christmas tree.
