Busy Weekend

Well, the most exciting thing that happened this weekend is we got a new boarder!!!  Her name is Sassy, and she is very sweet.  She's a beautiful light chestnut (sorrel) with a flaxen mane and tail.  Sassy is a Quarter Horse cross, and she belongs to Denise.  Sassy is a VERY vocal horse, she has an extremely loud whinny and scream, but she also has the most delightful soft nicker whenever she sees me coming (which I love).  The photo is not the best, I'll try to get some better ones when it stops raining.  Sassy arrived on Saturday, and Denise saddled her up, I saddled Jazz, and he and I showed them around so Denise would know where she could ride here on the property.  Sassy was a very good girl, except that she fell in love with Ziegy over the fence and immediately went into heat! 

Kate and I took Jazz and Scotty on Friday and marked the trail to Sweet Pea Farm.  It was a lot of starting and stopping for the boys while we tied marking tape on trees, but if we didn't do it now, we'd never find the trail again in the spring (we almost didn't find it Friday!).

  

Sunday, Jean came over with her new horse(his name is Caesar, but she might change it). I tacked up Becca, and we went for a ride.  We went from the Brook trail to Massey Rd, then back down to Farmer Browns, then took the Sweet Pea Farm trail - we had marked it well, we didn't get lost!  In all, it was a little over 7 miles, with a lot of hills - some pretty steep - both up and down.  Both horses did great!  They took turns leading, and we had a lot of fun.  Jean's new boy is a keeper, absolutely beautiful face and head, light chestnut, sensible, willing, calm, just a very good boy.  The photo was taken while riding, I'll try to get a better shot of him next time.