Rusty and Dixie on the Fourth of July

This is Rusty...he's a 4 yr old Quarter Horse. He's a handsome and very calm guy.

Here's Traci on Rusty - he's her husband's horse that she's putting some hours on.

And this is me on my good ole girl, Dixie.

We had a decent 2 hour ride starting at 8:30 am. (we'll have to start earlier next time - it was pretty ding dang hot by 10:30) While we were walking down one trail with ditches on each side, I caught sight of a critter that I thought might be a small gator. We stopped, backed up a little, and saw that it was a humongous cottonmouth. He just sat there, semi coiled with his head raised out of the water, showing his light colored throat. He wasn't leaving his cool spot for the likes of us. It did make us leary of splashing through any murky water for the rest of the ride. I left my camera in the truck so I took the ride pictures with my cell phone....not too bad for a cheesy cell phone camera.

After getting home and cleaned up, I made my yummy shrimp dip, then Bobby and I went to some friends' house to enjoy an Independence Day get together with the traditional hamburgers and hot dogs. I even got my big behind in the pool !

Happy Independence Day from KD and Becky !