The weather is finally turning a little cooler and it makes me want to get out and ride even MORE ! We've been having some nice group rides with our Happy Trails group and you can see pictures of them at the Happy Trails Link.

Julian is continuing his riding lessons and has graduated to cantering without holding on to the saddle horn. He's very proud of himself (as am I) and wants to learn to swing a rope now. You can see a video of him HERE.

I'm joining 2 of my girlfriends this weekend for a horse campout at a new location on the Suwannee and hope that it can become a new favorite place to ride.

Ringer is getting bigger every day and is a pleasure to pony now. No more pulling or lagging behind and since I learned my lesson by being pulled off my horse - I pay more attention now which helps. :)

Wow ! Just reqalized it's been 2 months since I posted to the blog. I've been extremely busy at work and too tired to play on the computer much at home. The weather is just getting right for riding and camping and we hope to do a bunch of both. We camped with friends 2 weekends ago at Lakeview Plantation in SC for 4 days and had a great time. We thought we were jinxed for the first 24 hours.....our friends had a blowout on the expressway, a crazy guy almost sideswiped us both, we got the last 6 stalls together at the camp, Ringer injured himself, Stylin had four tender feet, her Boa Boot lace broke, I lost my necklance on a tree branch (after it choked me), Traci's new stirrup broke, and last but not least I walked like a crab all weekend with a "stove up" back. But... even after all that we had good food, great company,and excellent trail rides. I had the opportunity to ride Mike's big ole horse Cozmo and hubby's horse Dixie.

Mindy came up last weekend and gave us driving lessons with Dixie and her new used cart that we got from our friend Donald. Dixie is a champ !