Did I want to learn how to be a great (or even marginally good rider)? Did I want to test the limits with endurance riding? Did I want to wear the sparkly western pleasure outfits and collect the blue ribbons (YES!!!)? Or did I want to spend hours brushing my horse on cross ties?
Deep down in my heart, I think I knew all along ... I wanted to ride in the woods ...
Just ride in the woods, every day ...
Listen to birds, see deer, spook at turkeys, have long talks with my friends ... HAVE LONG TALKS WITH MY HORSE!!!
Well, we're doing it ... Sunny and I are living my dream ... and he has never seemed happier in all the months I've known him ... I think this was his dream too!
Today, as I picked out his ginormously huge run in ... he actually played with me ... he stood between me with a pitch fork and the manure bucket and refused to move until I scratched his neck ... and when my arm was too tired to scratch any more, he turned around and presented me with the other side of his neck ... so yes, I scratched some more ...
And when the stall was clean and I picked up my saddle to tack him up, he walked right up to me and I swear he smiled ... and off we went into the woods ... Our Happy Place!
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