Dauset Horse Trails

After Asia loaded so nicely in Elaine's fully-enclosed slant load yesterday, what did we do? We went back to the Dauset Horse Trails, where we'd ridden the day before with Hilary and Joanna. They're not much further away than HorseCamp/1099 and they're a nice change of pace. I know my way very well around the trails at HorseCamp/1099 and Dauset's bike trails, but I've only ridden a few times at Dauset's horse trails and it's been a while, and Elaine had never been there, so when we went yesterday we spent some time figuring out the trail system.

When I bought Asia, I didn't get much info from her previous owners about her history. They'd bought her a year earlier from some folks down the street who bought her from some people in Florida. She was too much horse for the folks down the street, but not for Laurie, who sold her to me. Laurie just had too many horses. So, Asia's history is unknown, as is her breeding, but most likely she's an appendix Quarter Horse. She certainly is very typey as a Thoroughbred and many people think she might be full TB. I look at her hip and I think appendix. That said, she certainly has the full TB personality. She's sensitive and always on alert. It took me a while to win her over, but she trusts me now. There's almost always some white to her eye. I love it all as she's a very fun ride for me. She also likes to jump and there were some logs down at Dauset. Whee!







Elaine decided to test ride my Wintec this ride. No doubt Lady was grateful to get a break from her usual saddle, which is a gorgeous roping saddle, but so very heavy. Compared to it, the Wintec is nothing. Elaine liked it. Lady looks as though she likes it, too. I think Lady looks very good in English tack, too.


Elaine and Lady trotting. It was hot, yes indeed, but tolerable in the woods.


Here are Lady and Asia tied up together dozing while we eat lunch. Asia and Lady are BFFs back at the barn and all this hauling together has reinforced it. Thankfully, they're both used to being ridden alone, and we've made a point of riding off from each other on these rides to reinforce that they can survive without the other.


Note the yellow bucket off to the side as it was lost, but now it's found. *g*

Elaine's husband provides us with home grown tomatoes that are divine.


And then the tomato became part of this: Yummy BLT's, which were washed down with Sweetwater's Roadtrip Ale, a tasty seasonal brew.


Oh! Driving home yesterday I put a small bucket and two hay bags in the back of Elaine's truck. Not my smartest move because Elaine noticed the bucket fly out a few miles after we were heading home, but no way were we going to stop and retrieve it, not when hauling a huge trailer and the shoulders along highway 87 are adequate, but not all that wide. When we got back to the barn, not only had the bucket gone flying out, but so had one of the hay nets. The hay net is pretty old, but still serviceable albeit a bit tattered. Well, this morning while driving to the mountain bike trails, I spotted the bucket and the hay net both, about two miles apart. I got them both back. YAY!