Sunday, May 30, 2010

Riding and Bath Day!

Today I went to Long Grove Farms and hacked one of my favorites over there – Beau. His mom is out of town this weekend so I was assigned the lovely task of hacking him :-) He's a fun hack too!!! I'm just so out of shape it was embarrassing...Here are a few pictures:






And Choo got a bath today! Here's a photo of us on our walk after the bath (which he only had one and a half meltdowns during!!! Great for the first bath of the season! someday maybe he'll be normal for baths...one can only hope)


I love that I'm wearing crocs and it's absolutely not safe around horses to wear them...but let me tell you, bathing in those suckers was SUCH a great idea! They got my feet wet, and then my feet DRIED! rather than the paddock boot situation, which get sopping wet and never dry again, and the leather gets destroyed...or the muck boot situation, where you're so clumbsy and awkward you trip all over your own feet. Crocs win. And note that I wore my favorite – Kerrits performance tights today! PERFECT for this 90º heat!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beau looks fun - is he as big as he looks? I'm with you on the wet paddock boot thing, but I still wear them.

Jess said...

Yeah, he's giant. 17.2hh-ish. Just a monster. Haha. And always very unhappy. I rarely wear paddock boots anymore - I always ride in boots & breeches and rotting out that leather makes my skin crawl - I can't afford a new pair every year like paddock boots used to run me!!