ride with Amy

Also, rode with friend & artist Amy yesterday. She was on Sweet Pea, a beautiful and beautifully trained BLM mustang that she adopted and broke to ride. She trailered SP to my place & we went down in the riverbed for a short spin. SP was full of pep in her new shoes & saddle. Butch dawdled the whole way, unhappy cuz I hadn't properly shimmed his saddle yet, I think. I am wondering also if his feet are tender? Glad the farrier comes Friday.

Amy and I got to talking about "The Ride". She has tons of experience horse camping both in company and alone, for many days at a time. And would like to do some distance riding same as I want to, at an artist's pace. Meaning, stop whenever feel like it to pitch camp for a while and draw, write, daydream, whatever... no rush. So we discussed combining plans. Amy might like to ride along part of the time in AZ/NM, and proposed possibly being on-call support if needed the rest of the time. Kind of an emergency backup in case Butch & I run out of water or suchlike. What a generous offer! All this is just talking right now, as I don't have a firm leave date (March 17, maybe) or route (east 66, maybe) yet and she doesn't know what she'll be doing either. But it was fun to spin plans.