story time
i decided that my blog needs a story. here goes...
i used to do lots of horse riding and at one stage i was looking at a new horse with some friends. we were out on a trail ride. i was riding an arab named sugar who i hadn't riden before. she was a lean horse and when we cantered it felt like i was floating....
we were riding along a track beside an apple orchid all of us happily cantering along. i was steadily getting faster and my firends further behind me when i discovered that she didn't want to stop. one method that i have found usefull when trying to stop is to turn the horse in a tight circle cos they have to stop or slow down to be able to. so i tried this. i pulled her head to the left.... got half way through the circle just to end up heading down a row of overgrown apple trees....
so here i am heading down a row of trees on a horse that i'm falling off head first over her shoulder as trees are coming quickly for my head. i was pushing myself back up just to find branches and apples heading for my head again. then i'd duck some more braches, and find myself falling off again. this process went on for a while with me still on the horse trying to stop her as we went along.
the rows of trees were long with an occational break in them to provide easier access for those who pick apples and do whatever apple orchid people do. as sugar and i came bursting into the openess of one of these breaks in the trees and i became very determined not to go through the whole process of ducking from branches and apples for another long row. we pulled up. we stopped. i took a deep breath and jumped off...
i looked around at the horses head... there she was happily munching on apples! while i was attempting to stay on and not get knocked out, she had been pulling apples off trees as we went along. she had saliva and foam all over her mouth and looked very pleased with herself.
my friends came around the trees wondering what i was doing off the horse and why i had gone down through the trees....
i got back on, and we kept going. the rest of the ride quite uneventfull in comparison. but i didn't buy that horse.
i used to do lots of horse riding and at one stage i was looking at a new horse with some friends. we were out on a trail ride. i was riding an arab named sugar who i hadn't riden before. she was a lean horse and when we cantered it felt like i was floating....
we were riding along a track beside an apple orchid all of us happily cantering along. i was steadily getting faster and my firends further behind me when i discovered that she didn't want to stop. one method that i have found usefull when trying to stop is to turn the horse in a tight circle cos they have to stop or slow down to be able to. so i tried this. i pulled her head to the left.... got half way through the circle just to end up heading down a row of overgrown apple trees....
so here i am heading down a row of trees on a horse that i'm falling off head first over her shoulder as trees are coming quickly for my head. i was pushing myself back up just to find branches and apples heading for my head again. then i'd duck some more braches, and find myself falling off again. this process went on for a while with me still on the horse trying to stop her as we went along.
the rows of trees were long with an occational break in them to provide easier access for those who pick apples and do whatever apple orchid people do. as sugar and i came bursting into the openess of one of these breaks in the trees and i became very determined not to go through the whole process of ducking from branches and apples for another long row. we pulled up. we stopped. i took a deep breath and jumped off...
i looked around at the horses head... there she was happily munching on apples! while i was attempting to stay on and not get knocked out, she had been pulling apples off trees as we went along. she had saliva and foam all over her mouth and looked very pleased with herself.
my friends came around the trees wondering what i was doing off the horse and why i had gone down through the trees....
i got back on, and we kept going. the rest of the ride quite uneventfull in comparison. but i didn't buy that horse.
posted by Cara at
7:31 PM
2 Comments:
aww...why didn't you buy that horse, it sounds like fun. Just because you didn't buy it, it might have ended up at the glue factory :(
hehe, great story by the way :)
By
switch, at 8:59 PM
thanks switch.
it didn't end up as glue i saw it a few weeks later at a show with another girl riding it....
By
Cara, at 7:13 PM
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