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Today was such a fun day for me, I took my gelding Mick and we went to Lake Texoma for a trail ride.  We met my daughter and some other friends and rode for about 4 hours.  The weather was wonderful and even if the trails were a little muddy, mostly everything was great.  I didn’t realize how MUCH I missed my rides.  I quit barrel racing because of my bad knee, and when I did I lost a really big portion of my social life.   It’s hard to find women of my age that ride, or for that matter have the time to ride.  I’m lucky that way, being sort of retired,(you know my husband is retired, but I still have all my housewife things to do) I have more time that a lot of women who are still working.  Riding here on the place by myself is just not as much fun.  I did a lot of that when I raced, had to keep Mick in shape to run.  I really enjoy just moseying along and not have to go if the weather is bad or something else comes up that I need to do I don’t feel like I have to choose—just go another day.  Rachel has found an association that does competitive trail riding–not the go as hard as you can for 6-8 hours kind.  But one that does short rides with easy trail obstacles that sounds like a lot of fun.  We are going to check it out.  I do need to get back to riding.  I can’t remember when I felt so relaxed and mellow.  Also another good reason to get on with the weight loss.          I hope you all had a great week end to.  Happy Trails.