My Little Adventure

Nicola suggested in her last post that I share my little adventure from the reunion with her family a few weeks ago. It all began when I thought it would be fun to bring horses camping. For the record, it was fun. As you can see in the photo below Katrina thought it was a blast to ride the horse.


All the little nieces and nephews had a great time taking turns riding the horses.

I took three horses up, but they were all barefoot and after a day and a half of riding, the paint stallion I was riding started to get a little sore on his front feet. I figured I'd run down the canyon and switch him out with the paint gelding even though I knew the paint gelding had a history of bucking and falling over on me. I was able to rode him up the canyon without any problems until I got to the camp. We had to walk through the campground to get from the trail where I was to the hitching post where the other horses were tied up.

The gelding is afraid of everything, so he didn't want to go through the camp. He started bucking, and at one point I thought he was falling over, so I kicked my feet out of the stirrup, but he didn't go down. He just kept bucking. When he finished, I got off, led him through the camp to the hitching post, then back to the trail. I mounted up so I could now ride him through the campground, but he threw a fit again. In the process of jumping and bucking he hit my face with his head which cracked open the outside of my right eyesocket. Then he fell over on me. This time I did not get my feet out of the stirrup first. So I ended up with a sprained pelvis, 10 stitches around my eye, and a pulled and bruised groin muscles.

Oh yeah, I had a bit of a black eye and some stitches visible in the family photos that Nicola shared belos, so we're going to get our photos taken again tomorrow.