Wave your cowboy hat at my better half

in horses •  6 years ago 

A South Bend radio station has done a profile of Pokagon State Park in northeast Indiana:

http://www.wndu.com/content/news/One-Tank-Trips-Pokagon-State-Park-488533701.html

Part of their profile includes the Pokagon Saddle Barn, where my wife works. She's only on screen briefly: She's the woman in the cowboy hat saying "My name is Emily, but if you forget you can call me Horse Lady". I think I'm going to call her Horse Lady from now on!

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In this photo (which I took while trying not to fall of a horse myself) Horse Lady is in front, looking around for the coyote that just crossed the trail.

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You didn't leave the poop on the path, I hope! :)

Hey, it's a horse trail: That's where the poop goes.

Well, I dont know... I can just imagine how it would go around here.
Some people who take a walk in the forest would complain that they stepped into the poo and that its unhygienic and gros and all, at the forest management department. Then some mountain bikers would support the complaint of the hikers, saying the poo gets flipped up into the face of the following biker when they drive though it.
Of course the hikers refuse the support of the mountain bikers, saying they shouldn't drive around in the forest to begin with, a notion that finds support among the horse riders again.
Usually it ends by putting up a dozen signs along the path, saying "3 mph speed limit for horses and mountain bikes", "caution, horse manure on path, watch you step" and "caution, hikers crossing", and a few more.
Then everybody is satisfied, and all carry on doing what they did all the time before. :)

I'm sure how that's exactly how it would go in most of this country. But here in the rural Middle, you'd get laughed out of town for complaining about horse droppings on a horse trail.