Equine Adventures

I had this past Saturday and Sunday off work and it was glorious weather, so I ended up driving four hours Friday night after work to go back to Marmon Valley for the weekend to work as a trail guide.
It was the best decision I could have made.

I rode through beautiful forest-paths with great friends, like Kate and her Malachi-pony.

And earned money doing it for public riders.

I got to see and ride my Rusty-pony.

 

He got his winter coat while I was gone and I barely recognized him.

This is what I'm used to his colouration being.

We love each other.

As a matter of fact, Saturday morning I walked into the stables where all the horses were milling around and a dark, hairy little guy came up to me and started rubbing his face on me and chewing on my clothes. It took me a moment to realize it was Rusty. He knows me better than I know him!

For those of you who are not horse people, this is all very boring, I know. I'll move on in a moment.

The only negative to my glorious weekend is that, as my brother warned, "feeding an addiction only makes it worse."

This is true.
And as wisdom for those of you with pony-crazed little girls and postage-stamp-sized backyards: the horse-craze might go away, but it might not. If it doesn't go away when they start wanting to paint their nails and get noticed by boys, then it probably never will go away. It'll actually just get worse. Even as they're getting out of training bras, when presented with the choice, a horse will probably hold their interest more than Orlando Bloom will.

Unless it's Orlando Bloom and a horse.

I speak from personal experience, here.

Regarding other things I want in life, I've decided that my goal for myself is to submit one thing to either a magazine, newspaper, blog, or online once a week. It has to be somewhere that somebody else has to accept it for it to be published, so this post doesn't count. 

I have little control over whether or not anything will be accepted, but if I get into the habit of submitting things regularly, that puts me in the habit of writing things regularly and eventually it might pay off. 

Posting here is good practice, but submitting things elsewhere is still a daunting task. 

Here goes.