trail ride with the girls

Today is a trail riding day planned but first Britt had to put in a shift at the salon from 9:30-12:30. I worked on another custom ordered growth ruler, this customer wanted longer marking on the ruler so again tried a new technique with a black paint pen and ruler. I was able to hand paint the numbers too before I got stuff packed up for our trail ride.

I had the horses caught and everything loaded for when Britt got home. She quickly changed, grabbed a sandwich for the road and by 1 we were off. We met Shaina just after 2 at the Bragg Creek mall and it was not long until we got to the trail head, tacked up and off on our adventure.

The day was odd because the smoke in the air made it look cool but it was 25! Perfect trail riding weather.

 off we go

 Britt always prefers bareback when trail riding with Pep

Shaina brought along a boom box so we had music the entire way

seems my focus sucked while trying to snap and trot

 back at the trailer it was time to bucket the sweaty (some more than others) horses

  brought out Shaina's fancy halter I ordered her years ago but too big for Baby

Britt shows the down side of riding bareback ;) .. laundry

We had fed and loaded the horses and headed home by 5. A black cloud started to roll in and not long after the horses were put out and we came in did a short lived squall roll thru but soon was gone. Sheldon was napping on the couch and only moved to TV room for football. B showered and retreated to her pre school packing. I put a coat of stain on the ruler then relaxed with Netflix and a bath. Ok relax is not true with our crappy internet service but it was doable.

Not a bad way to end August!