A Trail Ride By Moonlight

Thu Aug 11, 2005

Went out on a trail ride last night with three other middle-aged ladies from the barn, and SOMEhow we ended up way out in the woods at sunset...anybody realize how friggin' DARK it gets IN the woods? All those leaves blocking any light left in the sky? Couldn't see the damned trail, could barely see the TREES, could barely see the woman in front of me on a dark TWH...I just say thank God for horses' superior night vision, because Quzqo performed like a trooper, in fact, he tripped less in the dark than in the light, probably because he knew he HAD to look where he was going, LOL!

Did not appreciate it when the woman leading the ride took off at a trot, which of course meant the other horses also had to run...nothing QUITE like the feeling of riding a crazy animal through the woods in the DARK! Arrrgh! Thankfully no low branches took me out!

Saw lots of deer (before it got too dark to see anything), and it was amazing how QUIET the woods are at that hour...no car noises, no birds, no wind, just total silence...spooky!

By the time we got back to the hayfields behind the barn it was 9:45, the moon was high in the sky, and the car headlights on the road below were actually kind of pretty. Quzqo behaved perfectly wonderful, not a spook or misstep the whole time! Was quite pleasant, that final few hundred yards back to the barn, out under the stars and the moon and all, the dark shapes of horses in the pastures whuffling at us as we went by...

Might have to do that again soon...er, without the trotting through the woods part of course!

That bitless bridle works pretty good!