Andi comes home!!

Poor Andi. I pick him up and love him, I put him down. His life revolves around Sherwood's work schedule. So, he's had some time off because Sherwood has been back in work. I mean, he has always been my backup pony- Sher is #1, and now even moreso because he doesn't want to do eventing. I loved using him as my trail horse this summer while Sher was rehabbing but he doesn't want to work hard enough to be an endurance horse, and.. let's face it. I am an all or nothing kind of girl. I am either pushing- hard- or doing nothing. He's just... lukewarm all the time. He could take it or leave it. Which is what makes him so easygoing, but another way in which we are just not compatible.  

In any case, Sher had been in work most recently and poor Andi had been left by the wayside yet again. I just can't keep up with both of them, especially with him at Chelsea's, and now with Miss Fancy. 

NOT ANYMORE!!! Since Sher hurt herself in a moment of  "Sher stupidity" (I might patent that!), I've been kicking around the idea of switching her and Andi, and.. I finally did it! Andi came home today, and Sher went to Chelsea's! Take that, biznatch! To celebrate, the neighbor and Logan and I took the ponies out for a road ride... And by that, I mean, I was going to walk the dogs while Logan rode Fancy for a road ride, then the neighbor called us and asked if she could come with her horse, and Logan volunteered Andi to be group leader. I was like.. Um.. No. He hasn't been ridden in weeks. Absolutely not. 

As always, I got overruled, so.. I lunged him (it was terrifying- poor Lauren the neighbor was staring at him cavort around like a kite on the end of the lunge and clearly thought I was going to get her killed), put on my big girl pants (and helmet), and hopped on. And.. he proved once more to me, why I heart him. We led the way down the street, jigged a little, gnawed on the bit a little, but did absolutely NOTHING scary or wrong. Until the big rock. He did not like the big rock and absolutely refused to go past it- but then he followed Fancy around it with nothing more than a side-eye. I was thoroughly pleased with my young'un. Lauren was very pleased with how it all went- I think she might even go out with us again. 

I do get the feeling she will not be joining Shelby and Jess and I for future trail rides, though.. She just doesn't seem like someone who would want to keep up with that level of trail riding. haha Apparently I can't even trail ride casually- and I found a crew who like it that way! I am so lucky in this life!