madison and rusty

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FIEST FAMILY FROM MAPLE GROVE, MINN. ON THE PURCHASE OF COCO THIS AFTERNOON. GOODLUCK AND KEEP IN TOUCH!

david and slick

amy and chief

DEB AND REBEL NINE MILE

ROBIN AND YOGI SHARON AND COCO

SHARON AND COCO

THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TO PUT UP WHEN WE RIDE AT POPPLE RIDGE AND NINE MILE. LOL

DEB AND REBEL POPPLE RIDGE

KEN AND MJ POPPLE RIDGE

SHARON AND AMIRA POPPLE RIDGE

ANOTHER CHILLY WEEKEND, BUT WE WEATHERED IT WELL. GOT ABOUT 10 HOURS OF RIDING UP AT THE NINE MILE RESORT WHERE THEY WERE HOSTING A BALLOON HUNT, WHICH WAS PRETTY COOL. MYRON AND CRICKET COME UP RIDING FROM NEW LONDON, SO IT WAS REALLY NICE TO SEE THEM. KEN EVEN RODE WITH THEM ON SUNDAY, US GIRLS WERE NOT QUITE MOTIVATED THAT EARLY. LOL. ALL THE HORSES DID GREAT WE ARE ALL HOPING FOR A COUPLE NICE WEEKENDS TO RIDE, YET. I AM JUST NOT READY TO PUT THE TRAILER AWAY FOR THE SEASON.

sharon and amira, deb and rebel at popple ridge

OUR FIRST SNOW YUCK! IT IS JUST TO EARLY FOR THIS WEATHER, BUT WHAT CAN WE DO, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. BELLA WENT HOME TODAY AFTER HER CHIRO. HOTSTUFF HAD HIS SECOND ONE AND IS DOING VERY WELL CANTERING UNDER SADDLE AND ALL. HE WILL BE GOING TO HIS PERMENANT HOME THIS WEEKEND- KEVIN WILL BE A HAPPY GUY. I ALSO HAD THE FIRST AND SECOND GRADERS COME OVER FOR A VISIT WHICH THEY GOT TO GO FOR A LITTLE RIDE ON BARNEYAND YOGI AND PLAY SOME GAMES IN THE INDOOR ARENA. THANK GOODNESS FOR THE INDOOR. ALL WAS GOOD. I WILL TRY TOPOST SOME MORE PICS SOON.

THIS WEEKEND WE HEADED UP TO POPPLE RIDGE WHICH IS BY TOWNSEND FOR CAMPING. SICK AND ALL I NEEDED TO RIDE MY HORSE AND BE SURROUNDED BY NATURE, IT ALWAYS MAKES ME FEEL BETTER. AND IT DID. CLOSE TO 20 PEOPLE SHOWED UP TO RIDE WHICH SHOWS ALOT OF DEDICATION BECAUSE IT WAS COOOLD, BUT THE RIDE WENT VERY WELL ON SATURDAY WITH ALL OF US, IN FACT, REBEL AND I GOT TO SCOUT A TRAIL BECAUSE WE WERE MISPLACED. NOTHING REALLY UNUSUAL. LOL. OF COURSE I VOLUNTEERED TO CHECK OUT THE GRAVEL ROAD AHEAD AND AS I STARTED OUT PUSHING REBEL FORWARD AT A TROT HE STARTED TO WHINNEY AND GET A LITTLE SQUIRMISH BUT CONTINUED TO GO. AT THAT POINT I WAS SAYING OH SHIT WE NEVER DID THIS BEFORE. WILL WE BE ABLE TO? PRAYING TO MYSELF THAT REBEL WAS NOT GOING TO TURN INTO GUMBY AND LEAVE ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD PICKING GRAVEL OUT OF MY TEETH WHILE HE RUNS BACK TO THE 17 HORSES HE LEFT BEHIND, INCLUDING HIS GIRLFRIEND!!! WELL WE KEPT ON GOING THAN WE BROKE INTO A LOPE AND LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT, IT WAS LIKE I WAS FLYING WELL ALMOST. THAN I REALIZED WE HAD TO TURN AROUND I BECAME I LITTLE HESITANT NOT KNOWING IF I COULD HOLD HIM BACK IF HE STARTED TO HAUL THE MAIL. I WAS VERY CONFIDENT THAT I HAVE PREPARED HIM FOR THIS BUT U REALLY DO NOT KNOW UNTIL IT HAPPENS. SO WE DID IT RUNNING LIKE THE WIND NEVER SKIPPING A BEAT UNTIL WE GOT BACK TO THE HERD. IT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME!!! THE FEELING TRULY IS INDESCRIBABLE. HAPPY TRAILS TO EVERYONE NEXT WEEKEND NINE MILE AGAIN.