Should have posted about last weeks trail ride, but was lazy. Who knows, maybe I'll remember enough to post it anyway at some point... there were definitely memorable moments.
In the interim, yesterday.
Thank you Tico, for the not-so-gentle reminder that I'm not getting any younger: yesterday (a day filled with big, chilly wind and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!), we were walking in the back field parallel to some swampy woods, when some kind of a bird took exception to our presence, about 30 feet away.
It took flight through leaves that already had been altogether much too suspiciously noisy and mobile to begin with (at least in Tico's estimation) and Tico executed a quarter of a second 180 degree turn.
I was at that point, shall we say less than centered on my horse? As a matter of fact, I'm not sure my head had caught up with the rest of my body for another second or so.
Since I was adamantly saying with my reins "there's no way in hell you're going to run back to the barn", he started crow hopping.
Miraculously enough, he stopped when I bellowed "CUT IT OUT!!!!!" so I shifted myself back to the middle of the saddle, and we worked on getting past that spot for the next 10 minutes or so.
Yup, didn't fall off. Still, my knees, back, shoulders, elbows and and neck hurt today like I slammed into a wall.
