> -> The arena's are just starting to dry out.. but they're still tricky.
 
> Dry?  Whats that
 
AHh that's when your socks and boots aren't wet any more.. ;)
 
 
> -> Yep.. had the same problem down in OC.. I ended up waiting till 8-9
> -> at night to use it.
 
> My horses seem to leave their brains and common sense in the stall when
> we ride that late.  Makes for a very interesting ride.
 
 
Well CJ is an interesting case..  I found in certain areas she's better off 
riding at night when she can't see all the boggermen waiting to get her.. ;)
 
It's either that or ride her in an arena where she can see forever.. she 
usually does ok then. ;) 
 
 
 
> I rode Smokey, during a break in the storms, while Dave was lunging
> Diva then got off and Dave got on him.  You could hear that horse
> grinding his teeth all over the ranch he was so upset especially since
> Dave, the stinker, rode him past the covered arena where we turned Diva
> out to roll after being worked.
 
Whew! Boy do you have some charactors..  Cj gets unhappy or even surely about 
me and the other horses.. but then I usually make it up to her..
 
Tonight  when I went to lunge her I had only gone about 10 minutes at a slow 
jog to warm her up and keep her head together so that she didn't blow up and 
get really silly and lame herself again..
 
Kim (Straws owner) came by and we stopped to talk  since I couldn't hear her 
over the wind... CJ relaxed so much... that I said to heck with it.. and let 
CJ visit while we talked..  that was pretty much it for the day for CJ.. will 
have a good amount of time to ride her tomorrow. 
 
 
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