Craig next to the sunflowers in front of our house.  The nutty giants finally bloomed!

She would've looked great with socks!  (Some poultice that I put on her front legs after a hard workout yesterday.)   

Smidgen had her first ride outside of the round pen today!  =:)  I took her up the road to a big open summer fallow field and trotted a whole bunch and practiced turning.  She's still in a major learning phase and it takes her a New York city block to make her turns, but I was very happy with her progress today.  She's a wonderful little horse and feels like a million bucks under saddle, (a big engine in a little package.)  We'll be burning up the endurance trails in 2016!  Yahoo!

This came in today's mail - Yay!!!!   =:)   We're at 62 points and counting.  And the year still isn't over yet...

The Pasture Pony Ride

Sometimes there is a need for a spur of the moment "pony ride".

I love Nettie.  She's such a wonderful horse!  Definitely worth her weight in gold.  She's the kind of horse that retains training like a sponge forever.  I still remember the day that I broke her to ride very fondly.  She was a totally awesome horse then, and is still a totally awesome horse now.  My little yellow broomtail mustang sweet pea!  Love her.

Last night Craig and I were fiddling around outside cleaning some stuff up around the farm, and the hot temperatures outside finally started dropping.  Nettie was standing out in the pasture munching on her hay, and I realized that I hadn't ridden her in over 6 months!  As an impromptu wild hair idea, I decided to hop on her and see what would happen.  Craig got it on his phone.

This is what happened...

  
I wouldn't trade her for any amount of money on the planet!

 

The sunset was a brilliant shade of fiery red tonight!  Beautiful.

Pink Ribbon Classic 2015

A few photos from the Pink Ribbon show this year.  We entered only two halter classes, but it was fun!  I need to start taking Ira to more shows again, as this is the only one that we've been to all year!  =:(