IT'S DONE

The finished product!


Ryan Butler of R&B Custom Auto body/Paint did a fantastic job.


He was skeptical about the Seafoam Green color, but in the end it looks super cool!

Things I will not eat by Vashti

These are things Mom has tried to feed me that are disgusting...

• Pear
• Beer
• Lettuce
• Granola bar that I begged Mom for and promised her I'd eat
  
• Celery
• Peas
• Watermelon
• Canned Ravioli - no matter how hard the girls at the barn try to get me to eat it.
  

Walk

It's so hot I have just been going to the barn to hose Vashti down and keep her cool. Yesterday we went for a walk together up to the cemetery once she was nice and wet. She was completely dry by the time we walked back down. I got this pic on my cell phone - I like how hazy the cemetery is... hazy, hot and spooky.

Trailer Update

We dropped off the trailer for some body work and paint last Sat. It's been just over a week and Ryan emailed me update pictures of our progress!!

Custom Rain Guards to stop the water from getting in and ruining the tack storage area and floor of the hay area.


Removal of the dent from a jackknife incident


Welding of the wheel wells (both wheel wells had areas that had rusted through)



Looking good so far! Can't wait for the finished product and to get it back so I can work the floors myself and get new mats.

HOT

It's hot once again. So hot we like to lay down these days...


It's too hot to stand up, but not hot enough that we don't pin at our ears at other horses who come too close to us... "Too close" being an ever changing boundary.



A little cutie pie! She even let me sit on her for a while after this.

Trail Riding

We did another trail ride yesterday. Vashti will go out on the trail alone as long as Bill is with us on a mountain bike as "lead horse". First stop - the cemetery on the aptly named Cemetery Road.

We ride on regular roads until we come to a dirt road which leads to a trail cut through. Crossing over that trail we come back out onto road which leads us to a State Forest.

We met a nice man who came out of his house to greet us. Vashti was pitching a fit and refusing to go forward past his yard. He came out and talked to her and told her she was beautiful - that's all it took! She loves being admired by people, just loves it. He asked permission to leave her some carrots by his mailbox for our return trip, which we granted. So on the way home V got a lovely little snack.

The return trip - this is the back of her boarding barn.


All in all it was a successful ride. Here are the warriors recovering at the end of the trail.