What a perfectly pretty November weekend in northeast Ohio.  Of course, you could find me out on the trail with my Morabs.  I love this weather.

 Friday, I took my very last evening trail ride of the year.  The time changed this weekend, and I no longer have the daylight to ride on the trail.  Anyway, Cruiser made it a good one.  He was energetic and silly.  What else would I expect from him on a cool evening…?  I rode Cole in the arena, and he wasn’t too keen on working.  Before the ride, I turned him loose to play.  He ran and ran and ran.  I think he used most of his energy up, and didn’t have any for the ride.  We did get some things accomplished, though.  I will try them again, tonight, to see if he remembers them.

 Saturday, I rode Cruiser with my sister and her horse Ranger.  We went for about an hour and a half.  It was quite chilly, and at one point, we got off to lead to warm up our toes.  It was warmer when I took Cole out.  He was just so perfect, I couldn’t really believe it.  We mostly trotted—too and from home.  The first few times I asked him to canter, he didn’t get it.  Later, I asked him again—and we went right into it so beautifully…

 Sunday, I took Cole with Ranger up to the show ring trails—as we do most Sundays.  He gave me an A+ ride.  (We like to grade our rides, and A+ doesn’t come up that often.)  We trotted most of the time, and at one point, my sister asked Ranger to canter.  When I asked Cole, he agreed, and once again, we had a beautiful transition.  We didn’t get too far, because Ranger came back to a trot before we wanted him to.  Cole had to do the same—as I didn’t want him to run past Ranger.  Still, it was the first successful canter together.  I then took Cruiser out for his 5-mile sprint.   We met my boyfriend with Starry at the turnaround point, and we walked back with them.

 My sister has a day off, tomorrow, so I took the day off, too.  I am running out of vacation, but that’s the point this time of year.  We are running out of good weather, too.  Tomorrow promises to be another beauty.