{"id":54893,"date":"2013-07-24T05:32:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T11:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=54893"},"modified":"2020-06-20T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T02:11:21","slug":"chaparral-ranch-milpitas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=54893","title":{"rendered":"Chaparral Ranch, Milpitas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m living my dream. I’m doing my dream. My dream is to ride horses.<\/em><\/p>\n

Over and over in the backseat la Ni\u00f1a<\/em> was singing about horses. We were on our way to Milpitas to do a trail ride. This activity is one that she’s been refused too many times, because she’s too small<\/em>, too young<\/em>, and does taekwondo<\/em> (I couldn’t understand the logic of this one). The first two were also rather mystifying because in Alberta kids are on the backs of horses as toddlers and I thought I was a bad Canadian because my child can’t ride a horse, skate, or ski. <\/p>\n

(But she does know that if you want light in a snow fort you need to put glass bottles into the walls as you’re building it.)<\/p>\n

So, I did some searches and made some calls and we spent Saturday morning on the back of a horse.<\/p>\n

It was a trial run to see how she’d do… to see if we should pursue some lessons. And, ever since last summer and the “kayak incident” where she hopped into a kayak and just started paddling like a pro, I was curious to see how she would do on a horse. I often wonder if there’s something to Carl Jung’s genetic memory theory that people retain racial memory. I wouldn’t surprise me… we’ve already had success with storing data in DNA.<\/p>\n

The outcome of her very first horse ride with Shilo<\/strike> Shasta was no surprise: she hopped on a horse, did some sort of horse whisperer thing, and then moved the horse backwards, sideways and forwards until it was where she wanted it to be. <\/p>\n

Me? I’m sore. I haven’t been on a horse for years and had difficulty finding a posting rhythm when my horse decided to trot. Plus, whenever I am around horses I miss Michi<\/a>; this ride is dedicated to her memory.<\/p>\n