Sunday, September 29

Today I am grateful for:

A good ride on River. He started out kind of tight and jumpy, and not listening too well, probably because it's been cold out. Horses often get a little jittery with the onset of the cold weather. So, I lunged him for quite a while to warm him up and get him paying attention again. Then some other riders showed up, and he was more settled because there were other horses.

The owner of the barn had a potluck supper for everyone, and that meant that as I was normally finishing my ride, a whole bunch of people showed up to ride together, so I decided to just have a longer ride today. It was a little nuts, because there was something like 15 people riding at once, but it was also a lot of fun. River seems to be happiest when there's a ton of riders around. We even organised ourselves and played some games and relays and so on.

The meal was great. There were lots of salad type stuff I could eat, though I normally wouldn't have had those types of dressing. That's the downside to eating so carefully; it makes events like this tougher to stay to your guidelines. I'm cutting out most carbs, and most sugar as well as already being a vegetarian, so sometimes I worry about eating at other people's homes and sticking to my food plan. I also don't want to insult anyone.

Really enjoying socializing with people at the barn.

Coming home and not having to make supper. We tucked in and watched a movie, "Siberia" with Keanu Reeves, which was pretty good, and had a surprising ending.