What the Well-Dressed horse wears in Western Washington!

Khari in her new Weatherbeeta "brown" blanket :-)

Khari managed to hang-up a hind leg in her "everyday" rain blanket trying to hit the bugs that were attacking her belly.  While trying to free it, she ripped the back corner & stretched the buckles to the breaking point!  Good news, she freed her leg!  :-)  

Today we went shopping for a new spring blanket & fly mask with ears!  The gnats have been terrible in the evenings, unless it's raining -- which is "most" of the time.  I'd like to get her into a bug sheet, but no point until the rains let up.  Instead I have to use wipes on her belly & had been rubbing "Swat" onto her ears.  

Khari gets a bath!

HH Khari-Me-Home

After that hard ride yesterday & since the sun was shining today -- I gave Khari a "spring" bath :-)  While the mood was upon me, I headed into the laundry & washed up her saddle blankets & the blanket she'd been wearing.  Now, she's clean & happily eating her mash!

Khari

It's hard to believe that we're coming up on seven years since Khari arrived at the Homestead.  Home On The Range will be the start of our fifth season of endurance together.  We started at the Bryce XP in 07.  Khari did her first 50 on day one, then we went on to finish every other day of the five-day ride.  It was one of those experiences that I'll always remember & hope to someday do another!

Arabian Horse Association - Competitive Distance Program~

AHA Mileage pins

Here's another way to gather some nice memento's for the miles you do in Competitive Riding.  You must be a member to participate.  http://www.arabianhorses.org/activities/incentiveprograms/cdp.asp#ref3
You log in your miles at sanctioned events, with the AHA on-line form, (Endurance rides count!)  Then - at certain levels, similar to the AERC, you receive not only the mileage pin, but something useful like a water bottle, or rain slicker etc.  I've not even finished logging in my own!
Beautiful red barn & gray mare pins are by Rhonda Guilford at;  http://www.cloisonne-art.blogspot.com/