This message is from: Linda Lottie User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Good story/sharing Carol.....I did same. Enjoyed days of driving Sven....gave an "intro to driving lesson" to a gal I met who wants a horse. She is a polio victim and while she wants to ride....introducing her to driving was eye opening. Sven was a sweetie....she loves him, of course:)
Hope to see many of you at the MN HORSE EXPO this weekend. We can always use help at our information table.....and, "heading" as we go in and out to present the fjords. Come hang out for awhile.....it's fun!!! This year we have our traditional and wonderful "brown dun" fjords, Phil Odden's gray stallion and, Susan Cargill's white dun mare. Next year, all colors? Working on it:) SEE YOU AT THE EXPO......Linda Baker Lottie & Kristin Lee On 4/25/06 6:22 AM, "Carol Makosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message is from: Carol Makosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > I hope all of you are getting out and about with your Fjords in our nice > weather in the midwest. I just have to tell of the wonderful weekend I > had driving my Heidi. First on Sat., I drove her about 5 or 6 miles to > our annual town meeting. Saving on gas you know. She had an hr. rest > there and then off we went to my friends place, which was about 10 > miles, I think. We did that in a little over an hr. Then on Sun. I > hauled her to my other friends weekend place with many acres and hilly > cross country ski trails for more driving. So our little group > consisted of me driving and two riders. We had so much fun and the > weather was perfect with few bugs, nice breezes and sunny. I am so > proud of Heidi and how well she did on all the up and down hills. I > love the thrill of her charging up a hill at a good canter or trot. > There were some short water places we could have crossed but I was leary > of the depth and other issues, so we went around them. After an hour or > so break and lunch we went back out. This time we headed for some state > land with many snow mobile trails. We could have gone on forever, but > some had trees down across and one had a steep grade sign or warning. > We decide to see just how steep this hill was and had a good laugh. It > was a lot less steeper than the ones on her property. So down we went > and traveled this trail until time to head back to pack up and call it a > day. I also had to go through a small rough area with only saplings in > the way to get around a gate onto the state land. Heidi does not bat an > eye or hesitate one bit when asked to go through. On our way back we > weren't quite sure where we cut through, but Heidi knew exactly where it > was. I held the lines up and very slack just to show the others that I > did not guide her. We call it a horses natural GPS. So in ending, I > hope everyone else is having as much fun as we did that day. Frankly I > had to almost pinch myself to know I was not dreaming of the great time > had last weekend. See you all at BE or Winona and that is coming up > sooner than we know.
