E. rode for the first time in many weeks today - and said that it was her best ride yet! Having a professional work with Curly seems to have been money well spent.
We traveled far and wide during the last three weeks and towards the end I have to admit that I missed our guy. Our original plan was that E. would meet up with Curly at a Wilderness Summer Camp about 100 miles from home, but we received a phone call during our trip informing us that the camp had been canceled. Not enough participants. E. was quite disappointed but her trainer offered to take her on a trail ride today as a sort of consolation prize.
When the phone rang early this morning I had a feeling that something had gone awry. Unfortunately, I was right. Our trainer was thrown from a young horse and hurt her hip, making a trail ride impossible. She felt terrible about disappointing E. again. I was more worried about the trainer!
We went out to the barn anyway so that we could visit Curly and little sister R. could play in the stream. It was a very pleasant way to spend the morning.
Poor Curly is being plagued by mosquitoes. I am now searching for an effective way to treat current bites and repel the tiny bloodsuckers as well.
