Yutan Days

Last Saturday, Barb and I had the opportunity to ride in the Yutan Days parade. A couple of gals that live East of me often ride their horses by my house and happened to be riding by the prior week of the parade when they stopped and chatted with us for a while. They asked if we wanted to ride in the parade with them, and I hesitated as I have been afraid to ride with everything going on with my heart. It turned out that one of the gals is an RN! So I felt more comfortable in accepting their offer.

I got up early on Saturday morning and Barb drove out to meet me at the farm and trailer up Cowboy (we figured it would not be a good idea to put Ki in a parade just yet) and headed East down the road to our new acquaintance's (Vicki and Linda) place.

Linda and her husband Bill own the place, and Vicki keeps her beautiful Fox Trotter, "Fiddler" at their place. Linda has gotten into acquiring "rescue horses" and the horse she rides "Angel" is one of the rescue horses.

Linda was kind enough to offer one of her horses "Derby" for Barb to ride in the parade. Obviously, by the looks of Derby, he doesn't get ridden much. When Linda was describing him to Barb, she stated that Derby couldn't tip over if he tried as he is so fat! Derby was quite the character and he and Barb had a blast riding in the parade.

Cowboy was so excited to be out around other horses and PEOPLE. Every time the parade would stop for the little girls to do their dance, Cowboy would inch over to the sidewalk where the little kids were so he could lick them. I suspect he was inching more so to snag their candy they had collected from the parade participants!

Of course we were very last in the parade, due to the little dancers not wanting to tap dance in road apples!

It was a great day and we really enjoyed ourselves. So thank you Vicki and Linda for getting us involved!