My first Lesson

Ever
With a trainer last Friday.
Consisted of groundwork with Persee.

My history of riding lessons
In the beginning
Long long ago
Started with 2 endurance riders
Putting me on their Endurance Horses
And taking me down the trail.
They taught me how to post on the trail
And how to jump (which I don't like)
Weekends were spent doing 20 and 30 mile
Conditioning rides with them...
Then they rode their horses in the Old Dominion 100
And Tevis.
They would laugh and say that I thought Endurance
Was the only riding sport.
I was younger then and more agile.
Now I'm stiff and fall hard.
Wonder what the future holds for Persee and I?
He has had severe anxiety and nervousness
While at the trainers
We are treating him for ulcers
Amping up supplements...
He's being taken on the trailer for rides
With other horses
And even was taken out alone yesterday
By the trainer...


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Persee on the Trail

The Recipe

started from one of Nevel’s friends (Major)
But I didn’t have enough of the ingredients...
So it was basically this:

1.5 C ground flax
1 extremely ripe (totally brown) banana
1 Cup Applesauce
2 TBSP’s mineral salt
Sweet feed- unmeasurable amt.  I just kept adding until I had a nice
Pliable-stick together mix.

I pressed them in to heart shaped mold, flipped them out on a baking sheet (lined)

Baked at 350 for 30 min then let cool in the oven.

Nevel went crazy over these.  He smelled them in my pocket when I was trying to mount him...so he got some for standing still.

I think this is his most favorite recipe...with Major’s mix running a very close second.
It must be the bananas!

...and anything is better than celery!  Ha!

Snacks for the Ponies

My plan is to make an electrolyte version come warmer weather

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Starting Over

I am determined 

Or

Maybe just stubborn 

Yes

I’ve been called stubborn 

But

Stubbornness, while at first

A set of brakes

Is actually a catalyst

A method

To accomplish a seemingly 

Forgotten

Goal

I’ll be 60 this year

I want to accomplish 

A few things

Before my already stiff body

Gives out.

1.  I’m gonna climb that mountain again 14,048

2. I’m gonna at least strive for an LD by spring of 2020

Maybe I will...

Make it...that is

Maybe I won’t

But I’m gonna try

Baby steps

Persee on that trailer

Let’s go boy!