Weekend in the woods

Try as we might, we cannot quite get everything together at the same time. We got out of town a little after 4 pm on Friday and arrived at the campground around 5:30. Jodi and Ed had been there all afternoon, so were set up and relaxing. We were surprised to see how busy the campground was--we have gotten a little spoiled in that we have quite often had it mostly to ourselves over the past year, since our friend bought it. The word is out though that it is open, and it was pretty busy.


We hung out and had dinner and talked all nite. We expected Amy and Burt to arrive from Chicago Friday nite, but they hit a snag of some sort, and did not get in until Saturday afternoon. Linda and Randy arrived Saturday morning. We had a nice ride--not long, maybe 3 hours or so on Saturday afternoon.


I rode Gyro, because she is delightful. And after this, none of the pics will make any sense.


This Great Pyr came to visit on Sunday. I thought he was swell.

Amy brought her pack of dogs. This is Bopper.
Every time the dogs got a chance, they got their short asses right back in the Denali. Evidently, camping is not the best thing in their world--they prefer leather seats to sleeping in a tent.
This is Jodi, looking like she has been caught in a thunderstorm, because she had in fact been caught in a thunderstorm. Our Sunday ride went off the rails a bit, as it looked like the rain was over. It most certainly was not.
Only Eddie had a reasonable raincoat. I of course, had nothing, and was soaked to the skin.
Look how wet all the horses are. I had to use the flash too, as the skies were so dark.
Poor Amy had on a sweater, I cannot imagine how unpleasant that felt.

I did not mind the rain so much, it was actually kind of fun.
This is what Jodi looks like when she is not caught in a thunderstorm. Her horse is a pretty good boy too.
Here, you can kind of see Tequila's ouchies. And that her ass is shaved, so that her wounds could be treated. She discovered the couch in the trailer, but honestly, she was as happy having the mid tack and stud stall to herself--she could come and go and had two rooms to choose from. Not a bad way to live.
This is Barry and Head at the initial tree. We always stop here for a snack break.
Who knew that Bocephus had been there?
It was at this stop that Gyro got up close and personal with this tree. She spent the longest time trying to get it in just the right place to scratch her itchies--which evidently involved her udder or something else personal. I don't think you can see her face well enough to know how much she was enjoying this episode. We watched her do this for several minutes, moving that tree all over the place. When she got done, she picked up her off hind leg and tried to get it out of there--that required hopping on her other leg all the way around the tree. She never got the least bit bothered by any of it--she is a good girl, and kept us laughing for a while.
This is the big Weed. His real name is Tumble Weed. we mostly call him the Weed. When he is bad, he is the called Dick Weed. This weekend, he was regular Weed, which is nice.
I did not get many scenery shots, as I thought I would have time on Sunday--and then the down pour started, so I mostly have pics of rain, and a few rocks in the rain. That kind of sucks
This is Tequila acting like a good girl. She was an angel all weekend, and she is feeling very good. It does my heart good.
Ah--finally proof that it did not rain the entire weekend. This is Linda and the Dirty Cowboy. Saturday was hot and humid and other than it making me sweaty, it was really nice.
Barry rode Hawk on Saturday. Hawk got cut from the team last year, as he was pretty solid and did not need the work, and got bratty about the trailer. It was time for that to end though, so he was back in the lineup. He was excellent. Did not take a wrong step, was great about the trailer, and was all around swell in every single way. We were thrilled since he has been off so dang long--like a year or so--which is a long time for a young horse. Barry loves him.


I kinda like him my own self. He is such a handsome boy. He is going to make someone a great horse---if someone would just step up and buy him. You could not ask for more in a young horse with as little work as he has had--he is just such an athlete, but laid back enough to get along with everyone.

This is Barry's favorite activity on these weekends---sitting. He did not ride on Sunday, opting instead to go mountain biking, but he did not get to do that either due to the rain. So he sat and rested. I take my resting in the form of a nap--I slept so long Saturday evening, I missed dinner. I only was down for an hour or so on Sunday when Darrell and Paula showed up and I never ever ever miss the Logan show. You just cannot make that stuff up, so I got up for that adventure.
The other swell thing of this trip as baby Junior---Eddie and Jodi's pup. Is he not the cutest thing ever?

More costumes

Linda's old man Thumper dressed up as a reindeer. He had a reindeer headband for horns, and a Christmas stocking and a nice Xmas blanket for a sheet--and some ornaments in his mane. He was quite festive!
Gyro was so corny, no one got her, but they laughed when they figured out who she was. You cannot really see much of her decoration in this pic
Here you can see a few more---she had knives all over her. She had machetes, and a scythe, and a dagger, and a cleaver--all the kinds of knives I could think of, hanging off of her all over---even from her chinstrap for a while. She sorted like that as well---not much phases this one either.
Barry is part of her costume, but you cannot really tell until you see what was in his pockets--he had some Xrays of her hocks, and a training bill for an obscene amount, and some syringes, ....

can you guess what she was?

No? Not many people could. Then they rolled their eyes when we told them

Any ideas??????

She was a CUTTING HORSE!

Ha ha hahaha ha

It is not just me

who has these problems with animals. In fact, I am not even close to being the worst! My friend Linda is a saint...she gets calls all the time to take animals that need help. She just got in this teeny tiny fawn, which she is caring for until the wildlife rehabber can take him. She says he is surely only a few days old, and weighs less than five pounds. Is he not the cutest thing you have ever seen? He is currently in the bathroom, so you can see how tiny he is where he is lying next to the toilet.

Linda also has a rabbit (among many other things). She is named Melvin, for some reason, and she has to go places with them. It is not at all out of the ordinary for us to go camping for the weekend, and Melvin comes too, as it is pretty hard to get help to feed a person's rabbit. They dont just make rabbit sitters like they do dog and cat sitters, I guess.

People like this are few and far between. Linda gets all the credit for being the good one who saves all the animals, but her husband Randy who is constantly complaining about them all does his part too--he just does not want anyone to know he is as big a softy as he is. He is outed now, though!