6 years and 11months

Today is September 1, 2014. I have been waiting 6 years and 11 months to go riding with my friend, Georgie, and her horse Glory. Of course part of that time was waiting for Glory to grow up and be trained. And waiting for my friend to go thru many changes in her life-health, work, training the rider. So here we are 6 years and 11 months to the day-and I get to go out on the trail with Georgie and Glory! Zoe and I were not there for her first ride out but now we have caught up with her about a week later. We did a short loop for about an hour. I had heard she had problems at a certain hill so we went there first. Glory hesitated at the bottom of the hill, then followed me up. Much better than her last attempt. We went past a tree that someone almost chainsawed all the way thru. The tree is down and I agree it is an odd sight. Glory wasn't sure about that. One step at a time and she went past it. She had never gone home on the trail across from FLEC. It has ruts in it that a horse can walk in and she did great with that too. Sometimes Glory was in the lead, in the middle, or at the end. All was good. Zoe didn't mind going out with Glory. Zoe doesn't know Glory and fox trotters (Glory is a fox trotter) move so differently than a square trotting horse. Sometimes the 2 different gaits don't work well on a trail ride, but today all was good. Georgie has put much time, energy, effort, preparation into being able to ride Glory on the trail and it was great to see it all come together for her and to share a ride with her. And to see the beautiful smile on Georgie's face was so satisfying. 6 years and 11 months-worth the wait.