14 september 2009

14th September 2009
It's waaay too easy to get used to not working, slept so well this morning the alarm took my totally by suprise and I dragged myself downstairs to have breakfast, about 20 seconds into making breakfast the guys came rumbling in (they usually come by the time me and D are out in the yard), how anyone can be that awake and cheerful in the morning is beyond me, I can be a morning person but today was not one of my good days; anyhow chatting to them woke me up a bit lol...

So the biggest thing today was a trek with some older teenage girls who are doing some kind of equine course, several of them had plenty of experience but for a few it looked like it was the first time on horseback. Since there were like twelve of them there were three of us with them and I placed myself in the middle of the line with a little bay called Caz, who turned out to be quite a character..

Anyways it was the hr and a half trek (rather than the one hr treck i've been on before) so I got to have a look around another part of the farm, the view from the little mountain top was amazing (I swear I will remember the camera at some point) and in all fairness yes, the hills did scare me a bit, but Caz got me up and down safely (apart from running like a lunatic to catch up with the others and thereby crashing into the hindquaters of Buddy, a slow and fat palomino)---

Heading back we took the river track which, in some places, goes extremely close to the ledge and is ridiculously thin, not a problem while you stay in single file but if something goes wrong well, it gets a bit tricky.

Now by now me and Caz had one horse between ourselves and Buddy whos rider was very unexperienced and for some reason she managed to drop her right rein (the ledge is on the left) so basically we were on the skinniest part of the track, one horse between me and Buddy who's rider was trying to stop him with only the left rein meaning he was turning in the worst possible direction, and she couldnt reach the other rein..

Buddy being the fabulous trekkig horse he is, did stop, but there we were, her gettin off was not an option, I was the only guide clse enough to get to them, hence, slid off Caz very carefully (had about 20cm of ground to stand on) and managed to squeeze her and me past the horse in front and (god knows how cause Buddy is one big horse) Buddy to get his rein. Lol we all survived, I got back on and onwards we went..

Then down in the river Caz decided she wanted to have a splash, and every time we stopped she did her very best to soak me, it was good fun though :D


(And oh, Tinuviel is getting so brave you can actually get close enough to stroke her in the field and she chased the quad to get the feedbuckets lol)