Wendy, Bingo, Walker and I had a good time at the barn yesterday. Poor boys, cooped up now for days thanks to all of this crazy rain here in the Houston area, they really needed the time out of their stalls. When they have to stay in them this long, we are sure they think of them more like jail cells.
We decided Liberty would be the best way to go. No need to go from the stall to a halter and rope in the arena, and riding them would probably not have been a good idea with all the energy they had pent up. Walker jumped the barrels with virtually no argument at all. Bingo did a very nice yo-yo at Liberty! Good job on that one, Wendy.  Walker and I even managed to get a bit of weave pattern in, and then Bingo started running and . . .
Once they got started running, they really got some exercise. Walker did a very good impression of a fire breathing dragon, minus the fire He got very tall, bowed his neck, flaired his nostrils and piaffed across the arena. He can really show off his stuff; all Arab when he gets his energy up. Bingo tore across the arena several times, but came up a little lame when he grazed across a damp spot in the dirt. He looked OK, though, after walking it off a bit.
After that, we sat on the barrels and fed them cookies, which of course, made them extremely content. They love their horse cookies! They were both nuzzling us to get that last cookie including the crumbs in Wendy's fanny pack!
So, imagine this, two women sitting on barrels with two horses loving all over them for their cookies. There is just no better stress relief, not if you love horses.