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Pepper & Puddles

Pepper & Puddles

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We’ve discovered that Pepper does not like getting her feet wet….. Well…when I say “we’ve discovered”…what I really mean is that Mary Constance found out (while whipping off of her during last season’s Fox Hunts)….. Pepper does Not like traversing anything that contains any amount of water….. She refuses to step in it…cross it…or navigate it in any way….. Usually after a great deal of “cajoling” (that’s what we’re going to call it…

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***Preparation For The Ball***

***Preparation For The Ball***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** As I’m posting this….. My fully armed chili is being distributed and dispensed….to unsuspecting riders….. They are partaking in my sumptuously prepared dish of multiple bean chili…(and sausage)….. Tomorrow is our last Fox Hunt of this Season…and we look forward to next year….. And after the riders have trailered their mounts home….. …..bathed their Hunt horses…showered themselves…and otherwise readied themselves for our annual Hunt Club Ball (this evening)….. Their gastric appliances have been…

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~~~The Fox Hunt~~~

~~~The Fox Hunt~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** There are just a couple more Hunts in this year’s Hunt Season….. Then there’s the All Florida Meet…(which is open to members of other Hunts)….. And then there’s the Hunt Club Ball…and then that’s it for this Season of Fox Hunting….. From what I understand…several foxes were actually viewed this Season…but still the vast majority of the chases were the ever abundant coyotes….. Those guys are so fast…it’s good aerobic training for the…

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~Hunt Club Halloween Tea Prep~

~Hunt Club Halloween Tea Prep~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Today my daughters and I are in a whir…baking and cooking….. Tomorrow is our Halloween Tea at a local ranch where we Fox Hunt….. It’s a Guest Hunt…so there should be more riders and guests than usual…maybe around forty….. …..it’s a little hard to estimate the amount of food to prepare and bring….. …..so it’s better to over-do rather than under-do………….too little food & drink is just a bummer….. We’re going to have…

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~Almost There~

~Almost There~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The Hunt Season has begun….. Pepper is still down at Mary Constance’s…but she’s fit enough to go out on several Hunts already….. She really seems to be enjoying herself…she already knows the in’s & out’s of being a Whipper-In’s mount….. It’s a little more complicated than what she would be doing with me….. My Hunt contributions really cap out at how many flasks I can hide all over myself and in my saddlebags……..

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So? When Are You Going To Ride?

So? When Are You Going To Ride?

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** And yes…you might be asking me that question….. …..and you have a valid point….. I guess…I’ll cut to the chase…it’s been so long since I’ve been in the saddle….. …..and to be totally honest…I’m a little afraid….. …..I know I’ll get over it…I won’t allow myself too much of a fear indulgence….. It’s been seven years since I’ve Hunted….. It’s been seven years in April since all our horses were poisoned….. *****(“The Final…

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*Riding Lessons*

*Riding Lessons*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** My daughters had a riding lesson with Mary Constance….. It’s a good start to the New Year….. But there’s a very dark side to riding lessons….. …..the screaming agony of the previously unused muscles….. I don’t envy my daughters the excruciating muscles which are guaranteed to follow…they are assuredly going to limp around with tears in their eyes….. Why is it…if you stop riding…even for the shortest period of time…you end up with…

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One Has To Question The Obvious

One Has To Question The Obvious

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We have two horse trailers….. A bowling alley named the Doozie…and my daughter’s three horse slant….. You’d think I’d be able to get ONE (1) working horse trailer on the road(?)….. Over the summer we battled to get the appropriate new tires on the truck…we just finished having the front ball-joints replaced (upper drag-bar linkage?)…along with the right tie-rod after the right caliper seized(?)….. Good times….. …..something still needs to be done with…

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And Now…For The Rest Of The Story

And Now…For The Rest Of The Story

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I need to make a disclaimer….. …..!Kids…Don’t Try This At Home!….. Remember my post about bringing Pepper home from the recent Hunt(?)….. And Remember I mentioned that there were a few “hiccups” in getting her home….. …..well…there were….. We ran into a bit of a snag when we were loading Pepper into the trailer….. …..we had known there was (a little bit of) a problem with one (a couple) of the welds on…

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~Pepper Comes Home~

~Pepper Comes Home~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Finally….. After such a long time….. I have a Hunt horse again….. I can’t tell you just how happy that makes me…I can’t stop grinning….. Mary Constance has been Hunting her for me…giving her experience…and mileage….. She told me that she even requested one of her lesson students to get on and off Pepper fifty times…in the clumsiest way possible….. …..the young lady dragged her foot over Pepper’s rump…poked her in the ribs…hung…

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