After helping with some of the morning ranch chores, I helped setup the horses for the ride that we were going to take. The horses on offer were two being trained to be ridden and one old accomplished horse. Thankfully I was riding the mature Blacky, however in it was an interesting first thirty minutes as for some reason all the horses were a bit uneasy and not really cooperating. Well this had yours truly experiencing his first canter by accident and ducking to not get clothes lined by trees because I hadn't figured out how to properly give the horse directions.. :S Once I understood neck reining, rather than the traditional what you see on westerns way of controlling a horse, I was all good.
So the ride was around the ranch property. This is old mining land (like clay), so things are kind of bare, or are covered in some sort of brush and a couple of trees. This was still nice as the sun was out and it was quite tranquil. There was a geothermal like pond, but it wasn't geothermal, just coloured that was from the mining that took place.
After that it was helping immunize the goats. This meant that we had to catch them and hold them down. The kids were the worst as they would howl and scream for their mothers >:D so after that it was a quick clean up and then off home to catch the train.
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