July 5th ride

Well my daughter Josie and I decided to go out for a ride, it was a bit overcast, humid and it sprinkled some but we decided to go anyway. This time I ponied Levi along with us.. it was time for her to learn to be ponied, go down the road and for Satin to learn to pony another horse.

When we started out Satin wasn't so sure of this adventure so we stayed around the hay field for a little bit and let her get used to having Levi led off of her. She did a little dancing, and some sidepassing away from Levi but soon settled down and off we went.

First we went up a little short dirt road right next to my house, which leads to the highway. We then decided to go up the little dead end road that is just a short bit up and across the highway. Levi did really well being ponied across there and Satin was thinking differently but she doesn't like to be in trouble and behaved herself very quickly. The highway traffic didn't seem to bother her as we waited to cross, that is a plus.

This road was about a mile long, dead ends and leads back to a cemetery. It was quiet, no traffic, lots of trees the last half the road and humidity and looming threat of rain made the bugs and sweat terrible.

Levi, Satin and I

A view of the dead end road (and Josie LOL)

Headed back to highway and across back down dirt road to the house, we had just gone 2 miles round trip. Stopped off at house long enough to apply more fly spray and get some bandanas to have on hand to dab the sweat off of us, then headed back out the opposite direction with Levi still in tow.

We went about 3 miles the opposite direction from home this time, at one point here something spooked Satin and Levi. Deer maybe, there were lots of thick trees in this area so that was our story lol, Levi did get loose for a short bit but she is so easy to catch. I also know there isn't much traffic on our road so I felt safe doing our first ponying lesson there. We crossed another highway and onto another gravel road. By this time it was starting to sprinkle again and Satin was getting tired, she is a princess after all LOL, well in her own mind anyway. So we turned and headed back and a BIG tractor pulling a big bale trailer AND a gravity wagon was coming up behind us, so we just stopped the horses to let the tractor go by and Levi acted like she was going to follow that tractor LOL! I hope she does that good all the time but then again they see our tractors all the time doing something in the pasture, this includes our backhoe ;)

Got about 1 mile from home and took saddle and bridle off Satin and put on Levi and put halter on Satin and rode Levi a very short little bit down the road leading Satin!! I didn't do this for very long because it was difficult steering her and leading Satin because Levi gets cranky and bratty easily right now and its hard to get after her leading another horse but I did make sure to get off of her when she was doing good at walking along. Satin was bothered terrible by the flies as you can tell in the picture, maybe I should call her Satan instead of Satin??  LOL

She looks a little tired LOL.

Then I climbed off and lead them both the rest of the way home which cooled them off so they could be grained when we got home.

We rode 8 miles round trip that day. :)