***Miles travelled today: More miles on horseback...
***Total Miles:
***States travelled through: Still in Wyoming...
Okay - so our morning started off real 'cowboy' style... and I tried the Biscuits and gravy for breakfast as the chef was insistent - saying that his would be the best... well - it was okay - but not something that I need to try again... but I can see why they may have been eaten in cowboy days... with the 'chuck wagon' needing to carry supplies for weeks on end... biscuits... (English scones) would have hardened and the gravy would have been used to soften them... don't see the point of eating them now though... 'Cowboy Days'... to us seems like 'yester year'... but being on this ranch, and having spent time in Wyoming this past week... cowboys are alive and well... listening to them talking seems amazing, talking about the 'cowboy code', herding cattle, lassooing... it's really removed from our experiences...
...now to the title of today's blog...
Being heavier they assign you more heavy set horses... well, yesterday Trixie was lovely... and aside from climbing up the side of the hill initially, the ride was very sedate... well, that cannot be said for today's ride!!! It was through the Shoshone forest and up and down hill sides and through little creeks... all on a 'fat ass' horse called Larry... who due to the fact that he was so big, the muscles at the front, that keep the saddle in place were non existent... he was just round... and his saddle kept slipping... indeed when we stopped for the lunch cookout, he was able, in the hour to get his saddle loose and over his head and off!!! This did not bode well for the return trip, as it was seriously up and down hill... well... true to form, the saddle was slipping, and I kept trying to correct it... and then we were going down this steep embankment and I felt it slipping off... and when it slips... it goes... I had to manoeuvre my right leg out of the stirrup rather swiftly to get off other wise the end result could have been different... at that point I decided that I would walk the rest of the way back... only to be told, "No Mam... that's too far... you have to get back on the horse!!!" Well - I did... but I was not happy...
Seriously had we done that ride yesterday, with Fat Ass Larry, I would not have done the second ride today... but, it's all part of the adventure... and all's well that end's well!!!
So this afternoon on getting back to the ranch - it was a relaxing bath... and a nap... surprisingly, not everything hurts...
Hi there cowgirls ( at least for a couple of days!} I wrote a reply to this days blog - but, it must be floating out there in space somewhere - so have sent an e mail to you! Hope you receive same! Love and hugs - Moi
ReplyDeleteo o o o oooh! sorry to hear you had an uneasy ride...glad it ended up happily..jolly good,the happy ending isn't just in american movies :-)
ReplyDeletealso noticed,you didn't put your miles down in numbers today...:-))
i knoow, i knoooow , i was very,very! rude yesterday..about the amount you "travelled"..:-) i believe,truly :-)..that it is no way the quantity..but the quality that counts..:-)
so never mind you have done even less miles than the day before..sure Fat Ass Larry had real fun making it special for you :-) but i think Trixie must've been proper upset,that they undervalued her abilities..just because she is a female...:-)
that aint right!!...
The photos..what can i say.....beeee eee a uuuuuutiful...i guess the one on your left Jay,is the mentioned one,the snoby assy Larry.:-)heeee just thinks he's gorgeous and rather good looking..well,i don't know...if i was a female horse,i'd rather talk to Trixie ;-))
...by the way..had quite a few messages,from you know who..like in general,kind of thing..but nothing stable..comes and goes..told her. i am leaving england soon..so went silent again..
god knows what she's digesting.or what..!!? :-)
.."there where is mastery,there is no mystery"..:-)) quite obvieously i have not achieved the mastery in this case, yet..at least that is clear..great to have s o m e clarity, it saves you from insanity..i keep telling myself...hmmmmmm :-))))
you lovely ladies..look after yourselves..have fun where ever the wind takes you next..take no shit from badly behaved horses! :-)
Love and Joy to you both x x
Hey girls!
ReplyDeleteGlad you didn't send Fat Ass Larry to the glue factory =)
Loving the pic.s and the comments are priceless.
I love the way you've each been conquering your own "limitations" in so many ways with such lovely sense of humour.
Truely life changing in the "bit by bit" sense.
Enjoy & travel safe
^j^