Couple of Firsts

We had a really nice weekend........the weather was great and we took Ringer out for his first big trail ride in the woods. He was so good ! There was no spooking and he crossed water without much fuss....not to mention it was the first time he had been with so many horses at one time.

Went to 2 services Sunday morning then drove down to Gainesville to visit with Bobby's mom and family. All in all a long day, but and enjoyable one.

Nothing Big but Staying Busy

Nothing big going on this past week or so. Visited a different church last Sunday to show support for fellow Stephen Ministers getting commissioned. Drove an hour-1/2 to Osceola National Forest last Saturday to ride with our group. Normally, it wouldn't take so long but the wind was terrible. Missed our group by 10 minutes, but Marilyn and I enjoyed a nice 2 hour ride and managed to hook up with the others at the trail head for lunch. Nobody was riding on Sunday afternoon, so I just played with Stylin and Ringer in the round pen and yard for an hour or so.

I finished up a saddle that I was cleaning and also completed a drawing - so I feel like I got something accomplished.

We plan on riding at Jennings this coming weekend and taking Ringer with us. He'll be joining us on most of our trail rides going forward. Met my new boss yesterday who will start on Monday. Hopefully I can learn more about HR from this guy - new face - new ideas. Got a free lunch at Bistro AIX - yum.......

After the holidays

Whew..........back to work, back to everyday life. We had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. Shelly and her family drove back to Tennessee yesterday. It was great having lots of family around for the holidays - dramatic sometimes, but great just the same.

Bobby and I and some of our riding buddies all went camping over New Years and had a blast ! We had to come home one day early because of some bad weather (it gets REAL noisy inside an aluminum horse trailer when it's raining hard) and plan to go back to McCulley Farms again soon. Here are some pictures of our camping trip.

Lessons

Bobby, Bo and I loaded up Dixie, Stylin and Ringer for a trip to the Woodard's place. Ringer took it like a pro - all of our prior preparation paid off. We had fun letting Ringer play with Mike's new colt, Rusty then we all saddled up and rode on their property. Both youngsters did very well with their ponying lessons. Rusty is just a few weeks older than Ringer, but is quite a bit bigger. Traci fed us some bean soup and candy after our ride and sent us home happy !

Happy Birthday Jesus !

What a wonderful Christmas ! We all went to candlelight services last night and then to a Christmas Day service at 10 am this morning. The whole family was here at at our house after church to exchange presents and eat a big traditional dinner. Here are some more pictures.

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

New Trick

Ringer's new trick - standing on a tree stump............