Today was the day to drive Midnight. I think it's been nearly 3 weeks since we were out last. Can't get anyone to drive with me, so we just went by ourselves. Hitched in the middle of the area, untied, as usual and she stood nicely. I had trouble getting the girth strap to buckle on the longest holes--how can this be when they are on dry lot half a day??
I ground drove a few minutes around the boulders and obstacles in the yard and then headed out for the road. Just to give a hint about trouble one can get into--I stopped to open the gate and laid the reins down. Took one rein and asked her to walk up through the gate. Oops. The slack reins wrapped themselves around the axle. She whoaed nicely and I had to unbuckle the finger loop, disentangle the rein off the axle, rebuckle the loop, and we were finally ready to go. What a good girl! Noticed she had gotten her tongue over the bit, so we had to unbridle and rebridle. She rarely does that now, but I watch for it.
There was quite a lot of traffic today, well 6 or seven vehicles passed us. That's a lot for our road! Because we had not been out recently, I turned her to face all the traffic. Of course, they all came from behind so she got some good practice turning. We did mostly walking.
She had worked up a little sweat by the time we got home and had a nice roll.
. Ponied Midnight behind. We went 2.69 miles. Lovely drive.
I had a blast. Never used horses for real work before lol. She wasn't too sure at first, but dug in quick.
