Fall Color, Fun and Riding!

September 15, 2018 – Volume 13 – Issue 36

Greetings MMR friends,

This week was filled with cattle and trips to graze, and lots of horsemanship, both inside and outside the arena. The weather was a little cooler this week and we had more much needed rain- even a little hail during one of the downpours. These hard rains are not that common here so it was an event! There was a beautiful BIG double rainbow after the rain stopped that started in the meadow and ended right in front of Shayne’s arena!

Shayne had his horsemanship students working on a lot of movements at the walk, really perfecting them and moving with life. He also did a fair amount of cantering with our guests in the afternoon sessions included flying lead changes over a log!

Outside of the arena guests continued their practice while taking in the views. The logging roads provide a great opportunity to work on rate, transitions, leg yielding and keeping the horses soft. We had a lot of fun also incorporating a few games on horseback along the way.

Roby and Des spent a lot of time riding client horses and restarting some of our older ‘colts’. They are getting to spend some time outside the arena gaining valuable exposure to what the different environments can offer a horse. It is so much fun to see them trotting and cantering across the meadows just having a blast while they work on their horsemanship!

It was an international week here at the ranch. We had guests from North Dakota, California, New York,

Pennsylvania AND the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, and Switzerland. It was a fun group and everyone had a great time together– several took advantage of the hot tub to relax after a busy day of riding.

Jean, who was an intern here in 2015, came back to see us and brought his friend Nicoletta with him. Mom and daughter, Judy and Deb, got to spend a lot of time together this week. Lisanne spent another week with us and continued seeing the views and working on her horsemanship. Melissa came from New Zealand and will be returning here in March to do an internship!

Tanja was here for the horsemanship and she rode in class every day to better her riding. Meg had fun mixing it up between horsemanship and riding out. Joy spent another week here as well- she is such an inspiration with the way she studies her riding, so that she can along with horses in the best way possible- And we will get to see her for one more week 🙂

We will miss these folks when they leave, but we know that some are already planning their trip back for next year ! The photos really tell the story and I hope you enjoy them too.

Happy trails,

Janice