Enjoying all the things

 Today Dan and I went for a walk hack. And it was lovely. We had lovely weather, lovely friends, and he was happy! We had a great time enjoying each other. 

 

We met Kelli but she rode in the arena first. I hopped on bareback and took Dan out to XC and we did a short walk to the lake and back while she did her arena work. It was nice. We saw Mackenzie and said hi to them and he got to see and snuggle with Jacel. Some other nice Dad whose daughter had a cute appy came up and gave him pats. I did warn him. Hee hee. Mackenzie laughed about having people sign a waiver before they pet him. Hee hee. She got snuggles too. (It wasn't today but apparently two days ago was "Hug a drummer" day and there was a photo of Animal... ha ha!). We carried on and hacked through raccoon loop and we had a talk about whether we should do surgery or not. I couldn't tell for sure but he seemed like he was willing to give it a go. He was pretty happy trail riding today though, so.. maybe it would be enough. But he also seemed pretty happy when I was talking about doing surgery and stall rest and potentially being able to do more. 

 

We got back to the arena as Kelli was finished so her and Marvin joined us and we headed back out. We had a nice hack and finished in the water complex and walked a few laps to help his shoulder out. Oh, we also did some splashing in the lake. It was just a nice enjoyable day! 

 

I had hosed him off as he was a bit sweaty because it had warmed up substantially and he's hairy! But I guess there's no point in clipping him if we're doing surgery. When we got home he rolled and he flipped over repeatedly... and was on his right side down when he got up and got up just fine. So... that helped me feel better about surgery and recovery. And I saw a big fat hawk sitting on the fence post on our way to Ashland and another flew over us (definitely a hawk, not a buzzard) on our trail ride... and then a crow hung out at the water complex with us the first time... so... maybe all good signs from God!??