Horses

My weekend was basically fully devoted to my horses. On Friday, my friend and I groomed my old horse (it feels so weird to say that) Ranger up really nice so that he'd look halfway decent when he left the next morning. It's sad, but he had to go to a new home, but I'm sure that it was for the best because he was too much for me to handle, and I am not experienced enough as a rider to ride him properly. So, Saturday morning I watched, with a bittersweat feeling deep-down and leaning against my other horse Preacher, as the woman who was getting Ranger drove away with him in the trailor. But, the woman who bought Ranger called me Saturday afternoon and said that he was doing very well and she was so excited and happy! This, of course, made me very happy!!!

On Sunday, I took my horse Preacher out for a ride in the field! We BOTH loved it! He was so excited to get to run and I was excited that I 1) didn't fall off!!! =] and 2) felt so free and adventerous! Plus, my mom even got on Preacher. For those of you who don't know my mom, she's not the type of person who will jump on a horse when given the chance. It was fun because I got to share some time with my mom doing something I enjoyed. I loved teaching her how to get on, find the stirrups, and stuff like that. What was funny, was that when she went to get off, she didn't take both feet out of the stirrups and she ended up sliding to a stop on the ground and she took the saddle along with her. She was okay though, and was laughing the entire way!