Hi Babe!
Had a good night sleep, beautiful sleeping weather here right now! Got up and did my chores and breakfast, spread out the tarp to dry since I had been planning on getting hay today (which didn’t happen, won’t be baled until tomorrow! Getting low!). Meanwhile, a man named Dan rode by on his bike, he had stopped by yesterday and we chatted for a bit, turns out he used to be a rider, so I invited him to come ride with me if he wants. Always helps to get both horses exercised at once! He stopped by again today and we chatted a bit more, made arrangements to ride on Friday morning. After he left, I saddled up Flash. Yesterday, I had got his boots out, because it looks like some of the trails here are graveled, and put several layers of Lexol conditioner on them and rubbed it in. The Cavallo people told me that I might have to break them in, though I’ve never had to do that before, but since I knew it rubbed Flash’s bulbs last time, I thought I’d make the effort. I had put them on for a few hours yesterday as well, hoping that it would help. I also got out the pastern wraps Cavallo sent me (they actually sent me two pair, didn’t realize that) and put those on, hoping to avoid any rubbing. It seemed to help, because he didn’t spend nearly as much time avoiding the trail as he has been lately, didn’t seem to mind many of the rocky sections. There really weren’t that many, but still, it was an improvement. I did forget to put his breast collar on today, that’s been helping a lot, but the park on the east side is so flat I didn’t think it would be an issue, but the park on the WEST side is quite hilly, so I wish I had remembered it. Anyway, it was a lovely ride, just under ten miles, including a tunnel under a busy road. I didn’t take Lola because I was worried about crossing that road, wish I had known about the tunnel. The only time I met other horses on the trail was at that tunnel, a couple was just coming out as I was just getting ready to go in. Flash is really getting into good shape now, he was quite happy to go quickly most of the way, especially the way back. Saw a few hikers, but other than that, we were on our own. Enjoyed it a lot, just wish they had more trails out here! This ten mile loop pretty much covers most of them, there is just a couple more short loops around camp to do. Of course, we’ll go backwards at least once here, just for variety, but we’ll have to do the same trails most of the time while we’re here. Got back to camp, and was planning on getting hay, but the guy contacted me after I texted him and said it wouldn’t be ready until tomorrow, darn it! Oh well, that’s the way it goes. I got out the pads I had bought for the Cavallo boots and cut those according to size and put them in both pairs of boots, will try them out next time I ride either horse. It did seem like the pastern wraps did a good job, there didn’t seem to be any rubbing. Then when I put the pads in Apollo’s boots, I decided to replace the velcro straps, they were pretty beat up, and I had spare, and wouldn’t you know, when I opened the draw to get the new straps, there was a pair of Cavallo pastern wraps in there! I have no idea where they came from, don’t remember seeing them, but evidently they had sent me some, maybe as a freebie with my last set of boots (or more likely the set before, since I had no memory of it) so now I have THREE sets of pastern wraps! Guess I’ll be trying those out on Apollo, too, though his boots are already broken in. I also decided to raise my stirrups a notch, just because there are times when I feel at certain speeds I don’t have enough leg control, we’ll see how that works. Grilled a nice little steak for dinner, now I’m sitting outside waiting for it to cool down, not sure if I’ll have enough battery power to watch a movie tonight, I didn’t run the generator at all today, and there were a few clouds so I didn’t get quite as much charge today as I hoped, but we’ll see! That’s why we’re testing the system! Won’t be long out of bed, though, so I’ll say good night, my sweetie! Love you
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