Sunday, May 29, 2011

"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle" - Winston Churchill

My friends Deb and George volunteer to lead trail rides on Sundays at Schooner Valley Stables in Nashville, IN. http://www.schoonervalleystables.com/index.html

I took a picture off of their website to show Deb and her most favorite friends!
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"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." ~W.C. Fields

Patty, her daughter Mary, and I had the good luck to be able to go on a trail ride with Deb today. A wonderful morning, I got to smell horses, feed them carrots, groom them and scoop some horse poop. Does it get any better than that?!

The quiet before the grooming and saddling
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Our lead wrangler, Deb
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"Feeling down? Saddle up." ~Author Unknown

Romeo - the kind one that let me bounce around on him for an hour or so.
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"When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age, you splatter." ~Roy Rogers

Your happy blogger getting ready to saddle Romeo....now....how do you do that again? And what was that about 'splatter'?
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"One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses." ~Dale Carnegie

This is Zeus...Kevin is getting ready to groom him. Zeus is very cool.
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Why is Zeus cool? He has blue eyes! Both of them! No - they aren't 'milk eyes' (as we might call them in Greene County), he can see just fine. And he can see carrots really well.
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Saddling up and getting ready to ride!
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"In riding a horse we borrow freedom." ~Helen Thomson

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"There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it. ~Author Unknown


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And we're on our way through Yellowwood State Forest.
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"There's nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse." - Ronald Reagan

Deb makes a stop to make sure all saddles are well cinched.
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Me 'n Romeo!
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"The world is best viewed through the ears of a horse." ~Author Unknown

Patty and Mary!
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Over all too soon, back to the barn...
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And a well deserved slurp of water for the horses.
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"Life is short. Hug your horse."

Deb and her remuda take a rest and get ready for the next round of greenhorns!

Thank you, Deb! It was wonderful!

"A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history." ~Author Unknown

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