Same Stuff, Different Day

Georgia is still slowing showing signs of her demise and I am still struggling with a way to handle it.

I wanted some adventure today so I decided to ride on the road.  With no need for a saddle, I jumped onto her bare back and headed out. Needing to go up a fairly steep ditch, I gave her a friendly squeeze.  Not long after we began our incline did I feel my butt slowly moving closer and closer to HER butt.  Mid-hill I realized I was slipping off of her and I only would have myself to blame.  Putting Show-Sheen on her will be my Achilles heel for today's ride.

In a slight panic I grabbed a handful of mane, and pulled myself up.  Doing this, I unintentionally had "asked" her to go faster.  So as I squeezed and held on, she started running up this hill because she was responding to my request.

Needless to say we made it up the hill and onto the road safe and sound.  As the sound of hooves hitting cement danced in my ears, I noticed a line of trees.  Not only did I notice the line of trees, so did Georgia.  The trees were not "just trees" to her, they are there to hid the vicious animal who at any moment is going to jump out and kill her.  Now for everyone who does not know horses well a simple explination of them is, they are like deer.  They run from danger and do not stop until they phycially have to.

Riding bare back has it's advantages, including the fact that I can feel her entire body tense up, her back arch and her neck rise so far up it may have touched a cloud.  At this very moment... a squirrel jumped out of nowhere!  Yes, she felt that it had almost killed her... and me in the process.

Over all it was a nice and pleasant ride.  We can never complain and say our lives are boring, Georgia and I.  It is always an adventure and thats how we like it.