Happy Tuesday! I like Tuesdays, beacause it means that Monday won't come around for another 6 whole days! :)

Yesterday i went trail riding with my sister. We rode for i think like two and a half hours (not including tacking up and trying to get my sisters horse over the creek..*lol* yeah Emilee- we had fun didn't we!haha!!!) When i woke up this morning, i was pretty sore, not because i haven't been riding, because i have been, but because we had to haul a ton of rocks to mark out a new corral. I could have put it closer to the rock pile i suppose, but i really liked this other place, because it has some shade in one corner and its pretty level already. its about a 1/4 mile from the barn, so its really quiet and secluded. Its not nearly finnished yet, we haven't put posts up,or nothin', just laid rocks for post-markers. Cant wait until its done.
Lets see, what else did we do. Oh yes, My sisters horse and the creek it was so funny! We were riding along and we came to a creek. yes, a creek. a little bitty trickle of water no bigger than a foot and a half across. Just running quietly down the rocks,not even rocks,...pebbles! Yes, a 2 foot wide stream trickling over a dozen little pebbles. And all of a sudden, my sisters horse spots this here little itty bitty stream running over pebbles, and she plants her feet down and stops faster than...well..i don't know what..but i'm telling ya after she spotted the stream, you couldn't get that horse to move it you were pushing her with a bull dozer! No kidding! We tried ever trick in the book. Emilee even got down and tried to lead her across. But nuthin, zilch, nadda. That horse simply wasn't gonna get her feet wet if she had say in the matter. And hour of our riding time,and much blood,sweat and tears later, she crossed the stream,all 2 feet of the trickling, itty bitty, pebble bottomed stream. (j/k...there was no blood envolved here-just thought i would clear that up:)
All it took was a little crowding of her space. thats all it took! Imagine, crowd a 1'200 pound horse after an hour of pulling, and wala! Over the stream she goes. What we ended up doing is i rode my horse behind and just to the side of my sisters horse, and then i would turn my horses shoulder into her butt, And let him walk into her hip,which in turn made her want to move foward. So after only about 2 sessions of this 'turn-my-horse-and-ride-into-her-horse's-hip' she decided that it would indeed, be more nicer on the other side of this here monster of water rolling over rocks, over she went, with a little hop and swish of her pretty little tail she was over, safe and sound, on the other side. And we finnished our ride with no further such..ah..incedent.
Well, every good thing must come to an end, so thats how this tale ends today. They usually always have a happy ending:)



Adios and Happy Trails!

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