Equine Event

Saturday was AWESOME to the max! I need to note that I am now an expert (well, almost) at backing up the livestock trailor!

A sweet man who, honestly, tried to help put the wrong light hook-up on the trailor and since I refused to pull the thing (again) without lights, I backed the thing up in Mom and Dad's front yeard for him to swap out the hook-up. Then for some reason Megan drove the truck and trailor to Grandpa's house (when her horse is at Mom and Dad's...). Again, I backed it up perfectly!

Got to where Megan's group was gathered - they had enough room to turn around, thank goodness! Parked at Dollar General, still didn't have to back up! YAY! Then, Mom and I see a family from church and the mom went on to tell us about how her 16 year old daughter barely made it to Woodville from Ivanhoe to ride and she wasn't sure how she'd get the horse back home and that all the numbers her daughter's group gave her are full or not going in that direction. Made me kind of think she wasn't going to ask, but wanted us to offer to take her horse home. Fine with me...really. I just needed to know if there was a place to turn around. And I meant "turn around" not "back up." "Sure, sure! Plenty of room to turn around." Good! I have nothing else to do, really. I'll take ya home.

Megan's horse Fancy is...funny...particular...kind of a dork! We put up the divider and wait for the girl to ride up on her horse. WOW! BIG HORSE! Poor boy...he barely fit, semi-comfortably. Get to their house...oh, there's room to turn around, but "stuff" every where in the way... By stuff, I mean: glass, tin, and other sharp and big objects! Backing up it is!

I did AWESOME! Again!

Mom needs to pick up her baby donkey on the way home. I know they have a circle driveway - easy peasy!

The baby they've been working with for a couple of weeks...?? Turns out, not so working with her...at all. No skills what so ever! Though, she did allow us to put a rope on her once she was hemmed up in the small stall.

Backing up...again. Down a hill surrounded by buildings, trees, stumps, and other obstacles. But you know what?! I did it! Backed up to her shoot and got that baby donkey loaded and went on home.

And to wrap up the awesome backing up...I backed up the trailor perfectly straight where the trailor goes when no one is using it!

I. Am. Amazing. Just saying...