Quarter Moon Ranch

Sandy V

Traveling Cowgirl

N. Dakota

Visited us in July 1999

Pictured above is "Cody", Sandy's sweet little mare...in her stall in one of our barns...as you can see she was very content and we made sure she had plenty of fresh good hay and water while she was here. In the same photo to the right and the photo below is Cody's traveling buddy and Sandy's wonderful gentle "Tony". He also looks quite content and was....he is doing what he lives for....eating..LOL!!! Tony is quite "buff" and is about 4 feet wide...haha!!! He is sooooo sweet. He got the whole time off while he was here, as he had thrown a shoe before Sandy got here. We got him shod the day before they left...but we were already riding at the time..so Cody had to do all the work for the 2 days we went on our trail riding adventures..as you'll see as you scroll down the page. Tony however did have to be ridden in the soft arena and get some retraining from Sandy...but we had fun in there going 'round and 'round. Sandy's first real experience at riding in circles...haha!!! She says she really enjoyed it and it did wonders to correct a few of "Tony's" spoiled behavior problems he had developed from other people riding him and letting him have "his" way...!!

OK..the next photos are on the trail ride...

....the first ride was an hour trailer ride from our place and I stuck all five horses in my "4" horse trailer...could've put another one in...away we went. We went to a trail called Molalla Forest Corridor. Nice trail until we hit the bee's in a nest under ground. But eveyrthing that happened, Sandy referred to it as an "adventure"...and she was right...adventures

indeed.!!!

Ok...from front to back...Julie and her horse Nicker..a long time friend and boarder...she has been with us since she was 13 and her horse was 4...she is now 26 and the horse is 17..guess that adds up right...haha!! As you can see, Nicker is a great trail horse...LOL, how many do you know that have to be looking behind them instead of in front, keeping an eye on the possible obstacles that could lie ahead...LOL, thats our Nicker boy....the dork..hahaha, but you gotta love him!!!! Next, to the right of the picture is Jenny, my friends 16 year old dauhter..riding Wee-Paw, her POA gelding...since their other horse hadn't been shod she rode this colorful little guy. The person sticking out to the left is "SANDY" on her sweet Cody mare..and last but not least was Jenny's mom....my long time friend on her horse Pima...a son of our stallion.

Left to right in the above pics are my horse Clyde's lovely rump and tail...SANDY and Cody, and Wee-Paws colorful cute rump...the next is SANDY and Cody, Wee-Paw again and Denise and Pima. Below are Nicker, Julie, Jenny and my horse Clyde...softies even sweated..but I think it was the bee encounter...I was sweating from that one myself and I think Sandy did too..we we're bringing up the rear and those bee's were mad by the time we got to them...eeeeks!!!!

Below is a pic of Sandy's famous horse trailer...heck, it has so much character, we missed it when she left...!!

The next bunch of pics are the day we went to the Oregon coast...the wind was blowing 25 to 30 mph and as you can see Sandy's hair doesn't move....it was too short to..LOL!!! We loaded 4 horses up in my trailer and we hooked it to Sandy's truck..she was tired of driving and just relaxed as I drove the couple hours to the spot at the beach. We went to Nahalem where they had some really nice horse camp sites...but we only stayed for the days ride. It was great as you'll see while scrolling down throug the pics.