Last night one of my biggest fears turned into reality.
MIL is on River City Roundup, a week long trail ride (insert jealous jester here), so I had to fill in for her at drill. I was going to take Abby, Cat and Lu but decided to leave Lu at home so that Cat wouldn’t have any trailer buddies to stand next to her while I was riding.
On the interstate I noticed the truck was pulling a little different then normal but I couldn’t put my finger on it. As we rounded the exit ramp onto the highway I noticed that my temperature gage was all of the way over on the red. Right about then my “dummy light” came on. I was a very short distance from a friends house so I babied the truck down the hill and then over to the side of the road. When I popped the hood you could hear the water boiling.
So here I am on a busy highway unloading horses. I’m so glad my horses are calm! I had to call DH (I was trying to avoid that) to come get me. I don’t remember what they said was wrong with the truck but pretty much it is toast. We were able to unhook the trailer and had a friend haul it home for us. Luckily I was able to leave my horses in a friend’s RP overnight and she’ll be bringing them home for me tonight.
I’ve seen people on the side of the roads with trailers behind and I’ve always worried about having something happen when I have the horses in tow. I’m just lucky that it happened when it happened and where it happened and not while I was out in the boonies by myself.
Practice ended up going well. MIL has Abby bracing on the bit and has been letting her anticipate the pattern but I’ll give that pony credit – she sure does try. By the end of the night she was tucking her head well and while she was still ducking corners she wasn’t doing it to the extreme she was earlier in the night.
2 comments:
That is scary. Glad they are all safe.
that didn't sound like fun at all and i hope i never have to do it. what good ponies you have!
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