Today we had a carriage job at a local eye doctors office (Dr Parish) he
had a Christmas Open House and hired us to give rides from
afternoon into the evening.
    I left work at 2:45pm and rushed home -- Buddy was all ready and we 
ooked
the trailer to my truck ...   He already had the carriage on the trailer and
hooked to the back of his Jeep.  I loaded up X and SEDONA and had just enough
time
to pour the coffee into our thermos before we had to leave to go to our job.
We took both horses becuase I do NOT want to tire out either horse nor break
them down.  It's just as easy to take both of them anyway ..... (like kids --
what's one more ).
    It was ALMOST desastrous as a strap on the harness broke - we didn't even
have any of those little rawhide strips so in desperation we WIRED the damn
thing together with a piece of bailing wire (where there's a will there's
way (most of the time ).  Of course I had failed to bring the other breast
piece from the other harness - my fault  .... NEXT time I'll have spare
stuff AND rawhide strips too !!!
    We hitched up SEDONA first ..... she did GREAT but since she really 
asn't
used to being driven for too long a time she started wearning out in 2 hours
(after all, we took 3-4 people each time we went around the block and it was
one trip after another).  So, I put X's harness on him, unhitched SEDONA and
off Buddy went again with X for another hour and a little bit. (Buddy's the
driver -- I handle the horses)
    BOTH horses were EXCELLENT!!  Traffic didn't bother them - horns, trucks 
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NOTHING ..... everything really went well!!  In fact, some people went home,
got their spouses, friends or children and came back for another ride 
    The editor of Callossa Belle Newspaper was there early on .....
She look LOTS of pics .... I'm sure that she'll put a good one in the LaBelle
Newspaper !!!   Also there was our State Representative, Joe 
Spratt
.... HE wants to ride in our carriage in the Swamp Cabbage Parade (that's in
February)
    Dr Parrish was so impressed that told us he was going to make this an
ANNUAL Event ..... soooooo, looks like we already have a job booked for next
year .
    I'm pleased with the way things went ..... this was the longest job we've
had ..... and at night too.  AND, I picked up a few more jobs (hour rides to
look at Christmas lights) before and after Christmas ......
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