Another beautiful day here, and with no dialysis today, I planned a nice ride on Flash on the Logan trail. It had been closed down last week apparently, and the local Horse Council Club came out over the weekend and cleared it of a lot of fallen trees, as also did some mowing in areas that were way overgrown. So Flash and I headed down Hillside Trail to Trillium, which was a very nice trail. Then I decided to knock off a small red trail that turned out to be quite rugged, with some steep climbs and drop-offs, quite narrow and a little treacherous in places, but nothing an experienced horse and rider couldn't handle. It was a fairly short loop and soon brought us back to the Trillium trail, which then led us into the former horse camp area, which is now a very nice pavilion (with a good cell phone signal!) I did a couple of texts while I was there, then we headed out on the Logan Trail on the other end of the picnic area. It was clear that this trail did need a lot of maintenance, there were a lot of trees that had come down, many a long time ago and a good number more recent. Some parts of the trail had really been torn up by the four-wheeler (or tractor, not sure what they had, but it looked like it might have gotten stuck a few times), so there was some deep mud in a few spots. By now, Flash was good and warmed up, and as his wont, he started trying to go faster and faster. I let him go whenever the terrain allowed, and I'm happy to say he's starting to make better trail decisions, choosing to slow down on downhill grades and muddy sections, speeding up on uphill grades and flat ground, though there were a few knee-knockers that almost caught me once in awhile. We made short work of it, doing 8.15 miles in barely two hours, no hanging about with this one! This Flash horse really does love to go! He's making me a better horsewoman, that's for sure. We're starting to jump over logs and holes and such, which certainly is making every ride interesting! Got back by 1:00, and once everyone was put away, we got ready to go out shopping. Just after I left this morning, two trailers came in and parked next to us, so now we have neighbors again. One of them asked me to pick up something at the store, which I was happy to do, and we headed out of camp for Steubenville, stopping at the Post Office to see if my final package had come. It hadn't. Our first stop was a nice little hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the mall called LeVille, where Hubby was delighted to have a big fish and chips dinner and I had a nice shrimp and vegetable pasta dish, with lots of leftovers of both. Lola came in with us and immediately lay down under the booth, her usual place when it's too hot to leave her in the truck. Of course, she has her Therapy Dog Please Pet Me vest on, so no one ever minds. Then we went into Walmart and did our shopping, and a quick stop at Rural King where I found another tire inflator that claims to go to 150 psi (we'll see!), then back to camp. Another quiet evening after that! Loving it!
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