Where Has Time Gone and Chance Goes For A Ride!

Go, go, go....rush, rush, rush....crazy, crazy, crazy....Breathe Paint Girl, breathe! Seriously, I have no idea where time has gone....I have just been so busy and it has been extremely busy at work getting ready for U.S. Nationals and having photo's taken of the sale horses for our annual sales flyer. Something has been going on everyday and I just can't seem to get a break. I am literally exhausted every night and I have only been on the computer a couple times. I just haven't had the time, nor have I been able to get motivated to get a post typed up. I have also had some computer issues, which really wasn't a computer issue, but my cable company was having issues, so when I finally sat down at the computer, I couldn't get online.

Anyways, I am back. It has been one helluva week. I have been miserable in this humid, rainy weather that we have been having. I feel like I live in a rain forest, but without the snakes, parrots and monkeys!!! Okay, enough complaining from me.

One of the things I have been busy with is that I loaded up Chance and took her for a spin. This was her first "real" trailer ride like a big horse. Last weekend my sister came up and we all went out to play with the girls. It was a rainy, dreary day. Imagine that. (I told you that I live in a rain forest! I'm just sayin'....) While I loaded up Brandy, my OH held onto Chance. You should have seen the look on Chance's face when I came out of the trailer after putting Brandy in there. Her ear's were up, her head held high and her eye's open wide! She was very curious and interested in what was going on.



I took Chance from my OH and headed towards the trailer.



Chance hesitated for a second, I think she was wondering why there was another horse in the trailer.



Then she walked right in. I tied her up and shut the divider.




I shut the doors and my sister and I jumped into the truck. I was just going to go through the neighborhood, but I ended up going up the freeway one exit and then taking a back road home. Every time I stopped, I listened for pawing and scrambling. Nothing. It was so quiet back there that I almost pulled over to check on them to make sure they were okay! I am so used to Fritzy pawing like crazy in the trailer, and it is so loud and irritating. But Chance and Brandy must have been happily munching on their hay, not even moving a muscle.



When I got back to my house, I had to back my horse trailer down the driveway (we back it in so we don't have to back it out when we leave.) This is when Fritzy won't stop pawing. But since I left the impatient horse at home, it was the quietest backup ever. Not.a.sound. Once I got the trailer where it needed to be, I went and opened the doors. Chance had dumped all of her hay out of her hay bag, so she didn't even have anything to eat! I was also expecting her to get a little nervous and possibly be sweaty from the trip. Nope. She was perfectly dry. She didn't appear to be nervous at all. I opened the divider, untied her and walked her out. She seemed a little excitable when I first unloaded her. I am sure she wasn't expecting to be back at the place we just left.

It turned out to be a great trailer ride for Chance, and Brandy was a very good leader in hauling. I am planning on doing a couple more trailer rides in the next couple weeks with Chance and Brandy. Then I will take Chance for a ride, ALONE! I want her to get used to hauling by herself too. That is when she might get a little nervous, but we shall see!!

Thank you for taking picture's of Chance's big day, sis!