It's beautiful and sunny here this afternoon after several days of cold rain. It seemed like a good day to go do some arena work with Tosca. However, when I got to Creekside, one of the girls was having her lesson in the riding ring. It seemed that the polite thing to do was not to join her with my green horse, so I took Tosca out on her first solo trail ride. She was wonderful. We saw a couple of slow moving pickup trucks on the log road above the trail and a crazed grey squirrel and there was someone shooting about a mile up the road. She did big flinches every time the gun went off, but nothing else on her body changed. Then I brought her back to the barn, clipped her bridle path and put her in the wash rack and ran warm water on her legs to clean off the mucky trail mud. She doesn't have Yrsa's sweet little girl expression, but she's a delight to be around.
Nancy
