This farm life is centered around horse-keeping, but the main goal is to ride. We love to ride, even if we have things that need doing we find time to ride. Sometimes a 'quick' ride turns into being out for 5 or six hours. Example: Sunday we left our house at 9:40 a.m. We returned close to 6:00 p.m. True, we spent an equal amount of time standing (eating grass) and relaxing in the rivers.
Years ago our area enjoyed a severe drought. There was no grass, hay was brought in from surrounding states and the local rivers and reservoirs were low. We purposely would trailer to a park that had grassy meadows, ride out to those places and let them eat for an hour or two. They were happy to go for rides.
I've been told that when you are riding you should NEVER let your horse eat grass. Of course I disagree. I know they aren't starving, but I'm going to let them have the grass that is better than at home.
KC in particular is not a 'snatcher.' He's basically not able to do that. I'm sure he'll get better with practice and age, but at this point he can't walk and grab at the same time.
We love to trail ride and our local parks have the BEST trails, allowing us to ride for hours and hours in deep woods with interesting terrain changes and challenges. But right when you think you've seen it all, a Hippopotamus
shows up not three feet from the trail and Skip executes an unscheduled text book roll-back. I had to bully KC past it, but we lived to tell the tale.
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