Today was our first day of work and work we did. We had our first ride this morning; a two hour ride with 18 people on it then in the afternoon a one hour ride with less people on it. It was a different routine than before, but horses are horses. No matter what they are somewhat the same. The feed over here is quite different compared to our heavy sweet grains. They seem to feed hay chaff sweetened with a tiny bit of molasses. I don’t think I would want to taste this horse feed. Our herd seems to have some of the same problems as the Yellowstone bunch, but overall they seem rather great. One thing that took me by surprise here is the no worries attitude. Small mistakes that would have driven any of my American employers crazy were just shrugged off. Another different thing over here is that we aren’t going to be completely in charge of any of the rides on our own. We will always have someone else out there with us. Today I rode Jeffer (turns out it is actually spelled Jaffa… just with the accent we completely misheard his name) in the morning. He is a nice little chestnut quarter horse gelding. He has had a rider that let him get away with a lot, so he will try to barge through my hand, but he isn’t bad to ride at all. He needs to be told what to do quite a bit, but still overall he was rather fun. The other horse I rode today was a green chestnut mare named Delight. She is green, but willing. She gets a bit upset at times, but she is not at all dangerous. The other horses I can remember right now are Nelly, a tall rangy strangely brown mare; Mitch, a little jolly paint gelding; Woodman, a big appy gelding with a silly troublemaking personality;
These rides are a ton of fun because not only is the scenery amazing, but we get to trot and canter a bit as well. We split the group up into groups depending on their experience, and then have some of the group canter and the rest trot or if some people want to walk, one of us will hang back to let them walk.
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