SO proud!

Rachael came today and we had a fantastic time. We've only seen each other three times in the last 20 years I think but we just picked up where we'd left off! Obviously we never stopped talking, but that was always the case even when we saw each other all day, every day.

Wilson was in a super mood today and I worked him properly. He was so much fun. We ran through Saturday's test with Rachael calling it, and then she got on. She's much taller than I am and my stirrups weren't long enough for her great dangly gangly legs so she spent much of the time sans stirrups and I was jolly impressed at her core strength and ability to sit, and quite staggered at the way she never once used the rein for balance ... or indeed for anything. She told me later that she usually rides with a single lead rope rather than with a rein, which explains much!

And she was very complimentary about mah boy. (Who was indeed very good, if I didn't mention that earlier.) She said that when she'd seen me riding him she thought "Gosh, she's good" - but that when she rode him she realised that it wasn't me who was good, it was Wilson, roflmao!

He's such a babe.

After a rather delicious luncheon :fat: we came home and I inflicted videos of Rocky, Mysti and Joe on her. I wish so much that she had met Joe. It was always one of those things that you'll get round to doing "one day" but in this instance never happened. She'd have loved him.

Anyway it was a beautiful day. Thank you for coming over, Rachael my dear, and you don't live THAT far away, and besides visiting you is a good excuse to drop by RideAway!