I rode with the girls again today at Broken Wings Ranch. I hadn’t been in awhile. I have started taking anxiety meds after Dave passed and I was like a buspar commercial up on that horse today, super calm.
I rode Buck Eye again today. Karen said I have to master him before I can ride another. He never ever seems happy to see me. I swear he rolls his eyes and turns his head. Truly, I don’t think he likes taking riders at all. He had a hard time today. He had shoes on the front but not the back. He HATED the water. I had to MAKE him go in the creek. And he went as slow as he could get away with. Except when he took off trotting a couple of times. He likes to see what he can get away with. I would have let him trot longer but it truly hurt. My muscles are out of shape and it hurt today, my hips and legs. My feet even got numb. When they helped me down, I said, “Wow! It feels like I just rode a horse for two hours! Oh! I did!”
At one point while going through tall grass prairie, the girls one by one made their horses go in a tight circle. Buck Eye decided he needed to do that, too. He turned his head and kept it there til I pulled the reins then he went in a tight circle, too. Monkey see, Monkey too. Then he was ok to go on. I got a kick out of it.
Overall I felt peaceful and calm up there. There was no panic, no anxiety, only a couple of gasps when he trotted. He didn’t like the horse and pony following us today.
I took some video footage which I think will be perfect for the music video for Old Dirt Road.
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