Driving Practice...

Hitching up Reba...

First a little leading...

Then ground driving...


And into the cart for Linda! Good job, Reba...

Now it's Madeline's turn...

Ground driving...

And again it's into the cart for Linda! Good job, Madeline...

David gets a turn...

A few more trips in "single driving", then the girls will be ready to be teamed up with a pole on their cart to do their team driving...

Till next time...

David and Linda

Sedona!

Linda, and K, another friend who was lucky enough to be on this trip, posted a bunch of pictures, so I will share them with you! WARNING PICTURES HEAVY and, if there are captions, they are copied from Linda and K!

The little ones stayed behind (on Saturday) to play with two little girls who were camped with their parents next to us...in their RV Motor Home for the weekend...


Then on Sunday...
At our first water stream...

Heading down the trail....with a stop on the rocks for pictures...

And off down the trail we go..




Here they come... a bunch of happy trail riders

Another water spot......











Through some pretty thick areas...



Checking out the minis



Dave and wild bunch

Welcome drink

Reba should we put on the brakes?







Almost the whole family

Jump I say jump Reba

Madeline would you scoot over it's a long way down...



The end - er, ENDS! ;)
I was supposed to go on this trip but it got rained out and rescheduled... for the same weekend as my Chaparral endurance ride, so I didn't get to go after all :(

Portrait...

Aaawwwwwwwwww

Caballo del Sol Ride 2011

An AzBCR post from Linda...
Madeline and her sister Reba camping out at the week long March 26th through to April 2nd 2011 Caballo Del Sol catered trail ride in Rim Rock, Arizona, with a little over 150 other trail riders. And waiting for their big brother mules to get ready! While Dad plays with his GPS......


And now the two little Teamsters are off with their big brother mule Earl for their ride , Madeline can't wait for her Grandma Susan (paintedpromise) to see her sister and her trolling down the path together . Dad calls it his half ass team!! Camera's came out from every direction as they went for their ride!


And... their off!


And later when they came back in........


Happy little minis


Uh oh... Donkey shrinking creeks , but we know whether we like it or not were going in!


And....... in they go .....



Till next time!!!

David and Linda

A Cute Team!

From Linda:

Last night, Reba and Madeline had their first side by side team ground driving lesson together in the turn out with David ground driving them as a team together . I think we got a good match, and will make a very unique mini team pulling their cart when Dad gets all done working with them. He has even found a way to take Madeline's Easy Entry Cart from single driving shafts to converting it to a pole, yokes, and double tree so we can use it for the two girls in team driving them.

A New Sister...

Linda told me that David's mother lost her husband recently... among other things, this caused a need for a new home for her mini horse Reba. At first the thought was to return her to the breeder where she was purchased, but they decided to see waht Madeline thought... and it went well, so Madeline now has a new sister!!

Merry Christmas!

Isn't she getting to be a big girl...





And this was her first parade at 2 months old...