Sunshine and Smiles!

 Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!

 

Today was a glorious day! It was 62 degrees and the sun was out! Minimal wind. It was glorious! I injected Lyric this morning and then Dan and I headed to Ashland for our virtual saddle fitting and a trail ride with Sharon!

 

We did our saddle fitting with the 'card" system and Dan should be getting his fancy custom Western saddle in .... 5 months. Ha ha! But it should fit him well! Although he is quite narrow. He's basically getting the narrrowest tree they make! Now to figure out all the trim options and color (a soft milk chocolate brown or a darker deep brown) and whether I want a quote on back or not. Sharon joked that I should find dinosaur leather stamps and have the back say "rawr". ha ha!! But no... Although it did make me smile! I am looking at celtic trim and maybe a celtric cross. But I don't know. I may just stick with the pretty little flower and spiral trim. But it was nice to have Sharon help me with the fititng because Dan is a wiggle worm and it was nice to have her hold the phone and Dan's head so I could measure. Then we went back and double checked Baylor. 

 

Then we tacked up and hit the trails! I went bareback because we double checked and Liz's saddle is too wide for him. Plus, I love bareback. We had so much fun! Dan was so glad to be out and wanted to play with Baylor. He was walking slow and kept stopping to let him catch up and then he'd try to get him to say hi. But Baylor tends to squeal and strike so we tried to not let them do that. Then because Dan was a slug, we let Baylor lead and then Dan kept trying to stick his nose on his butt and I was afraid Baylor was going to kick him. But we managed to avoid any misfortunes and just played musical leader so both ponies were happy. We even splashed in the lake! It was chilly but luckily he only splashed a bit and didn't take me for a swim!

 

It was so nice... to be back on his back... to see how happy he was to be out... and to enjoy the sunshine and company. Ahhhhhh.... Totally made my day. And reminded me how grateful I am for this... just this. Even if it's "just this".... this is good enough. 

He's such a goober. This is what he did on the ride home. :)