After a reasonably pleasant evening last night, we managed to get quite a
good night's sleep, thank goodness, so we had better spirits this
morning. Those, of course, immediately improved when we decided it was
time to go for a ride. I had given Hubby some Alka-Seltzer fizzy cold
tablets before he went back to bed yesterday, and that improved him
tremendously, enough to be ready to ride today. We decided to take a
fairly short ride today, just to get the horses sorted out, and we
headed out about 1:00. We didn't follow the trail exactly, some parts
of it we took a main dirt road, but most of it was really lovely.
Footing was mostly dirt with a few areas of stone, but not enough for us
to be worried about putting boots on the horses, though we brought them
along just in case. In about 75 minutes, we arrived across the road
from the Visitor Center for the Kings Mountain Military Park, where we
tied the horses to a hitching rail and walked across the road to the
museum. We spent nearly an hour in the museum, looking with great
interest at the various exhibits, which explained the occurrences on a
particularly fateful day in 1789 when the local mountain men demolished a
good portion of the British forces in the area, and making it one of
the final nails in the Brits coffin in terms of American Independence.
It was a particularly telling lesson, particularly after our run-in with
our overbearing government yesterday. We didn't have time to walk the
battlefield, we'll have to save that for another day! Anyway, the
horses were brilliant, very well behaved, with Apollo especially good
since I put some extra padding under his saddle. He never jumps anymore
when going into a canter, confirming the problem has probably been his
saddle all along! I can't wait to try out my new bareback saddle, which
I would have been using today if horse.com had sent it to the right
shipping address, instead of my billing address, which was very
disappointing when I discovered it a few weeks ago. Anyway, it will be
waiting for me when we get home to Tennessee in a few weeks, I can't
wait to see how it works! Meanwhile, it was a very good ride, long
enough to give everyone a good workout, short enough not to tire anyone
out too much, about three hours of riding, so we got back around 5:00,
just in time to feed everyone! A relaxing evening, and still, no sign
of rain!
After a reasonably pleasant evening last night, we managed to get quite a
good night's sleep, thank goodness, so we had better spirits this
morning. Those, of course, immediately improved when we decided it was
time to go for a ride. I had given Hubby some Alka-Seltzer fizzy cold
tablets before he went back to bed yesterday, and that improved him
tremendously, enough to be ready to ride today. We decided to take a
fairly short ride today, just to get the horses sorted out, and we
headed out about 1:00. We didn't follow the trail exactly, some parts
of it we took a main dirt road, but most of it was really lovely.
Footing was mostly dirt with a few areas of stone, but not enough for us
to be worried about putting boots on the horses, though we brought them
along just in case. In about 75 minutes, we arrived across the road
from the Visitor Center for the Kings Mountain Military Park, where we
tied the horses to a hitching rail and walked across the road to the
museum. We spent nearly an hour in the museum, looking with great
interest at the various exhibits, which explained the occurrences on a
particularly fateful day in 1789 when the local mountain men demolished a
good portion of the British forces in the area, and making it one of
the final nails in the Brits coffin in terms of American Independence.
It was a particularly telling lesson, particularly after our run-in with
our overbearing government yesterday. We didn't have time to walk the
battlefield, we'll have to save that for another day! Anyway, the
horses were brilliant, very well behaved, with Apollo especially good
since I put some extra padding under his saddle. He never jumps anymore
when going into a canter, confirming the problem has probably been his
saddle all along! I can't wait to try out my new bareback saddle, which
I would have been using today if horse.com had sent it to the right
shipping address, instead of my billing address, which was very
disappointing when I discovered it a few weeks ago. Anyway, it will be
waiting for me when we get home to Tennessee in a few weeks, I can't
wait to see how it works! Meanwhile, it was a very good ride, long
enough to give everyone a good workout, short enough not to tire anyone
out too much, about three hours of riding, so we got back around 5:00,
just in time to feed everyone! A relaxing evening, and still, no sign
of rain!
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