OETRA Mary Ben ride - Saddle Revenge

This weekend was the annual Oklahoma Equestrian Trail Riders Association's Mary Ben ride named for a pioneer in trail blazing in Oklahoma. Mary is 89 years young and rode on the trails. Oetra works very hard to keep trails in great condition and open new trails in different areas of Oklahoma. They have many work days - I vow to start working more this year!

The ride was at Bell Cow Lake - only a few miles away from our Chandler ranch. I waited until 10pm Friday for the wind to die down so that I could haul Bruce from Edmond, but gave up and drove out in my car. (Semis were blowing over on the highways - 50mph sustained winds)

I ended up riding Shaw Mead, who is the best ever, and Cody rode Cleopatra. I received payback for having Cody ride in my dressage saddle a few weeks ago. None of my saddles are wide enough for Shaw Mead and I rode in Cody's very laaaaaarge roping saddle. I'm a little sore today:) Beautiful weather, sunny, barely any wind and we had a wonderful time visiting with all sorts of folks from all over Oklahoma. It was the kind of day that you just don't want to end.

After our ride, we had a wonderful dinner at the pavilion, then enjoyed a great band and dance in the starlight and cool evening.

Woke up to pouring rain and reality.... laundry, shopping - yuck

Very thankful to have these breaks in my life to enjoy with great people and horses!

Hugs to all,

Adena

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