You may find this surprising, but I think horses are effing awesome.
Every year some of us join the Northwood Farms Horsemanship Challenge. Participants commit to riding 1 horse 30 times for a total of 40 hours over the course of 12 weeks starting in January.
Getting riding plans together.
This year I’ve chosen Nigel — a fancy Lipizzaner gelding who is the perfect combination of well-trained enough to teach me a lot, but also patient and tolerant (also to teach me a lot).
I’ll be posting from time to time about our progress and hope you’ll follow along.
Suzie is doing the challenge as well, and she chose our little roan mare Journey (you may know her as Porkchop). Hopefully we can encourage Suzie to share her experiences, too.
One day into the challenge and I’m off to a rather inauspicious start with a total ride count of zero. Tuesday is Taco Tuesday at the Palm Tavern so my friend Shawna (our hay farmer and also owner of Maya — her horse that we use in our string) and I plan to ride and then go have Tacos and red beers at the Palm. Join us?
~T
