summer is coming and so is the fun

summer is just about here and its time to get out side and have fun in the sun. my favorite things to do in the summer time is hang with friends at the beach swimming, jet skiing, and playing volleyball. i also like to play basketball out doors of course go golfing and ride my horse.

probably my favorite of all of those is riding and showing my horse. i do speed with my horse, no not the drug, its a type of disicpline that includes barrel racing, pole bending, and other "games" on horseback. typically it is done in a western saddle, at very high rates of speed. in order to do this type of riding and do it well you need good riding skills, a well trained horse, speed, be able to think and make decisions in a split second and you have to be a little bit crazy.

6 years ago a bought a horse and she was only 6 years old and barely green broke. this means it was hardly riden and didnt know much of anything. i wanted to train her myself and that is wat i did. i trained her for 4 years and everything was going great till one night i went to a friends house to ride and when trailering her home something happened in that trailer that we will never know and it caused her to kick through and escape door. to make the story short she cut her leg all the way through her deep flexer tendon and had to be put down. it was the hardest decision of my life. but 2 years ago i got anther horse and i have been training her and she is great this past year we went to the state competion and took 5 top 10`s out of 6 classes.

another type of riding i like to do is trail riding. i like to trail ride because it can be both fast and also slow and relaxing. placing i get to trail ride are in the kettles, on my propery on friends property and also out west. my favorite place to go is out west. when you are out there it is so much fun riding through the moutains and letting the horse do its thing and watching them work. when you are out west trail riding you get to see things that you normally would never get to see and even if you are not a experienced rider i would encourage you to take a guided trip trial riding throught the mountains.