Saturday May 10th, 2008

Porscha went down to the sand pits for the first time! :)

Porscha really hasn't been hauled out anywhere to go riding. She's been to my friends house once or twice, but this was a trip specifically down to a place, parking on the road, and riding from there.

She did well, except for wanting to turn herself around in the trailer [and managing it!] a few times. I tied her shorter, and that stopped. She about broke my toe coming out of the trailer. I backed her half way out, she decided she didn't want to come out, so she came back into the trailer, stood on my foot, and squashed me between her fat self and the divider.

Got that all sorted out, then tacked up and went out! She was very snorty and watching everything around her, and spooky. She spooked at a lizard, some concrete, a bush, and a squirrel. Not in any particular order, and sometimes more than once.

She seemed a bit sore [last time she was ridden we got stuck in a barbed wire fence, remeber?] so I didn't ask for more than she wanted to do. We did a lot of trotting because that was her speed of choose, and boy can that girl book it. She loves trotting, and is in her element when she does so.

There was some bright orange plastic construction "fence" [the kind with lots of holes in it] that was on the ground half way, so I decided to walk her over it. She had been very, very spooky at the black solid plastic little barriers that the construction people put up, but didn't seem to mind the BRIGHT orange stuff. So, she starts to step over it, then stops. Then backs up.

Well, as it's basically plastic grid, and has holes in it...it got stuck on her shoe. And well, when she backed up, it was stuck. So...she took off.

And the fence followed us....

I thought I was going to be done with, and on the ground. She just TOOK off, with that fence STUCK ON HER FRONT FOOT! *insert panicked horse here*

*snickers* Now that I look back, it was quite funny, and just adds to the drama that is riding with Porscha. But at the moment in time, it was very scary. It eventually fell off her hoof, and I brought her back down. After that, she decided the black AND orange construction plastic was something that deemed spook-worthy and she avoided it at all costs. *sigh* Silly horse...

We ended up going about 9 miles, not too bad. It was a slow pace, about 2 hours and 15 minutes. But it was all in the sand, so that was completely acceptable to me.

Look at that trot!