A wee plod...

Camryn here:
As blog friend Zoe would say, "we had a wee plod".  I like the way she says things!  Anyway after our little play session yesterday Jesse and Me had a lovely little ride thru the woods back home.  Kind of romantic actually, to bad he's a gelding SIGH

Danette on Jesse.  This is just behind the boarding barn....

I think maybe Jesse is winking at me here?

The area used to be heavily wooded, but it's been cleared to enlarge pasture.

Just beyond on the left is a long wall of split wood, I come into the trail from our woods just beyond the wood wall... 

The bridge is just beyond our place, it's one of two bridges going to Danette's home barn where Jesse lives...

Hey, Zoe I had Mom take this one just four you.  Doesn't Jesse have a handsome behind!!!  Poster boy material for sure.
Normally Mom n Me come over thru our woods, then we ride with them back to the home barn.  Mom n Me than ride home via the road.  It's kinda scary cause we have to ride between trailers, ATV, and cars, parked between the house and garage.  There is a small pond with scary plastic Blue Heron that I'm not overly fond of.  But, Mom always reminds me that it's not real so I just keep on going with my eye peeled just in case it isn't fake.  I think riding on the road home is Mom's fav, she thinks my hoof falls are very musical. 
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It's mine now...

Camryn here:
Headed over to neighbors to play with Jesse n Teddy.  The newest boarder a little Icelandic named Landii was there too.

First we played some groundwork stuff.  Then I spotted one of those big horse balls tucked in the corner of the bedding bags.  I wanted to play with it really bad and kept asking Mom if we could.  Finally her said yes, I was soooo happy.  I went over and picked it up and carried it into the middle of the arena.  Everybody was laughing about how I certainly wasn't afraid of it.  Sadly the ball shoulda been afraid of me though...

How was I supposed to know the darn thing was so fragile? 

So, now I got my own ball, cause Mom said "you broke it, you bought it"!  Her's gonna buy Danette a new one but, I won't be lowed to play with it SIGH  Mom took this picture after we was done playing and the ball was nearly empty of air.  Good thing about my emptying it though, Teddy wasn't afraid of it after it couldn't move about so easily!!!

After the ball, they got all these hoola hoops out.  I'd never seen hoola hoops and coupla of them rattled.  Mom laid one of those down near me, I picked it up and it eventually ended up over my head!  Then Jesse did the same thing with his, good reason to like him hee hee.  Mom was kidding around and put it over my butt, I didn't care but the boys was all looking at me.  One of the girls said I could be a circus pony someday!!! 

Landii and Teddy weren't to fond of the hoola hoops, so Danette and Mom led us over them with those two followin and before you know it the hoola hoops didn't bother them no more either. 

There were some pool noodles too, one was sitting way up high on the stacked bedding bags.  Mom went over there to get something so I reached up and pulled it down, course that got them laughing again cause I was walking round with this big ol noodle in my mouth.  Mom said something bout me being a Golden Retriever?  Oh, I think we bought the pool noodle too, seems they weren't meant for retrieving so much!

Next Mom mounted up and we played with my new broken ball some more.  Very fun day for sure!

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Dr. Tony #4...

Camryn here:
     Dr. Tony just left, I wasn't grumpy at all this time as Mom left work a tad early to make sure I'd get to eat some lunch before our appointment.  Again no pix, but I getting to eat is what really matters anyway!
     Dr. Tony says he's really pleased with the changes he's seeing and feeling.  So pleased he's not coming back for 2 weeks!  Then if he's still pleased he'll stretch it out to a month, he expects to see me 3 more times.  My neck was only a wee bit ouchie, my shoulders are feeling much better.  The dips behind my withers are filling in noticeably! He says that's cause I can now use myself better! 
     Dr. Tony gave Mom some stretching excersises to do on my legs.  He held off doing it till he'd done it a few visits, he didn't want Mom to try and get hurt.  While I don't particulary enjoy my rear legs getting all stretchied behind me, I don't object and allow it to be done without over reacting.  He says I'm a very good girl.  So anyhow, Mom is to lift and stretch all four of my legs once a day.  He says doing this will get/keep me limber and better able to use myself.
     While Dr. Tony and Mom talked afterward, I stayed right with them offering my head for scritches.  This isn't the norm for me actually, ecspecially when I know Mom has no treats.  Mom can't wait for Sherry to come to my trim next week to see if her feels the differances too.
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Play Day with the boys...

Camryn here:
We was hoping to head out and hit the trails this weekend.  Yesterday was lotsa rain, today cool but, sunny.  Instead of trailering out Danette called to say we'd be hittin the trails out back.  Mom n me were "game on"!
When Mom came back to tack me up she noticed I was acting a bit worried bout something.  Didn't take her long to realize it was Brad just behind our woods, in their woods chopping wood.  The noise didn't bother me none, it was that I could see him, then I couldn't, I'd see him, then I couldn't.  Mom explained to me that when I saw him he was chopping, & when I couldn't he was bent picking up the wood to stack.  Mmmmmmm, I wasn't to sure bout that!!!  So, Mom & I headed back slowly to the back gate to the woods.  We took our time so I could watch Brad more closely.  Once we got into the woods, I got all high headed and snorty.  Mom practiced my whoa, back n stuff with the clicker in hopes that my thinking side would kick in (oh, Mom was leading me from the ground).  Her shouted up to Brad that we was coming & asked him to stop & talk to me.  That helped with him not ducking out of sight so much.  However when we got to a certain place there was so much brush he dissapeared again.  He n Mom kept talking so I knew he was still there.  Once we got outa the brush and we was close I was fine.  Whew close call I tell ya.
Mom n Me continued on  walking and snacking to the arena barn.  Danette had assured Mom that there wouldn't be no more "let the horses loose together".  But, soon as we got there, one said "hey lets turn em loose so they can let off steam"!  Mom said "we'll step outside while you do", her friend didn't understand why, but Danette backed Mom up.  So, since Cameron & Maybe were in their stalls Mom turned me out in their paddock while the boys played a bit.  Guess they'd been in their stalls and needed it.  Mom just had her cell phone camera but, it'll do at least she remembered pix right!

My tail needs a trim & bath I think!

Watching Brad chop wood further up the trail...



Mo-om Brad is chopping wood!!!



Mom just called me in.  Being a good girl I didn't hesitate, being in a differant paddock aided in my haste at listening!

The boys were done, so I came in and did some groundwork stuff.  Then we all retacked and headed out into the woods.  It was really quite fun & relaxing at the same time.  Funny how once surrounded by the boys the wood chopping was no big deal at all.  We rode by them several times.  I think I might like the cute hunk Jesse next door, liked being behind him lots.  We tried touching noses coupla tims but, darn humans said "no visiting."  BAH I SAY!  Lori was riding behind us and commented that my tail was dragging the ground as I walked, which means a tail trim in the near future.  We played for a little over two hours.  After instead of riding to my pasture via the woods, we followed the boys back to Danette's home barn where Jesse, Eclipse & Levi all live right next door to me.  Then Mom n me rode up the drive, between the horse trailer and garage, squeezed between to cars, then out on the road and home.  Mom was like "you have no prob with all that, but a little wood chopping you think will kill you".  Then her laughed and petted me :)





Ohio's #2 crop is mud by the way...

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Snip canters over the Rainbow Bridge

Camryn here:
One of my friends "Snip" was sent cantering over the Rainbow Bridge today SIGH.  I didn't know him well, though Mom did. Being retired for the most part, I only rode out with him twice.  Snip was a 26 year old Thoroughbred, solid bay with a snip, hence his name.  He's been blind in one eye for as long as Mom has known him.  Sadly he suddenly and unexplainably went blind in his good eye.  He also began periodic nose bleeds of the kind that filled his feed bucket, along with stumbling.  Tests didn't show anything conclusive, his peoples wanted to just give him time to see what happened.  But, then the nosebleeds worsened and the stumbling started.  Plus he began just standing with his head down as if in pain.
Sooo, now Snip is young again, he can see, he can run and graze to his hearts content...

This is the only decent pic Mom has on her computer that includes Snip.  He's standing on the left alongside Mom's old TWH Mo.  Everyone loved Snip, he was always kind to other horses and peoples.  He may be gone but, will always be here as a Snip in everyones heart that ever met him.

R.I.P. dear Snip

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