Yesterday my man surprised me by suggesting we go Geocaching before the sun goes down. I went to get in the car and he said "We can walk." I said, "If we can walk, Baasha can go too!" so I ran to get him. 
Baasha has forgotten all about politely staying behind me as I lead him - he charged ahead and wanted to drag me along the entire time. I swung the leadrope to remind him, and obviously we need to repeat those lessons. I'm the boss mare, you can follow me! But he was so enthusiastic to get out and explore with us, it's hard to be strict with him about it. (The pic is what I saw today as I looked out the window - big sky!)The Geocache was 200 meters from our house. We missed it and made a HUGE circle around our neighborhood, and we had to laugh about it. I was enthralled with the creative gardenry (?) of homes I'd never seen, and we crossed through dark woods and over grassy paths between horse fields. Horses cantered around in alarm: "Foreigner! Horse from another land, look everyone!" We saw some of those shaggy cattle from Scotland sharing a field with some horses happy to finally be on grass.
The neighborhood hunter drove his jeep by us, and I stopped him. I wanted to know if he's the one who's been medicating the wild pigs in our field, yes, it was him. But I didn't understand his German at all. The conversation went to my man as I stood there puzzled. The hunter noted that Baasha was scarfing up as much green grass as possible during this chat break, and asked, "The grass is always greener?" or something. My man answered, "Yah (like people), why do we go to restaurants?" *giggle*
When we finally found the cache, (really close to home, making that entire hike superfluous) Baasha put his nose on it, his little brain clicking into comprehension of the reason for our walk. "One of those hidden boxes again, I see." I asked my man if he would please log Baasha's name in the book, cuz he's a Geocacher too!
We saw a yard full of sheep and their new lambs, and I'm convinced they're the cutest animal on earth - newborn lambs jumping around crazily, and wagging their tails as they drink from their mothers. ADORABLE! There were two donkeys there too, explaining the Heehaaawing we hear from time to time.
As we walked up a hill, without warning my man sprang onto Baasha's back. First time bareback! He said "What do I hold onto?" I said "His hair." In the end, we both had white hair all over our jeans. It's really fun to walk down the street holding hands, with "our son" on the line.
Today is LILAC DAY! WOOOO! Finally my lilacs opened up. I love them so much! As you walk around this town, you get these sweet wafts of perfume from all the neighbors' lilac bushes. 
Everyone loves lilacs here! Gotta get some in my kitchen!
Behind our apple tree is this big purple monster bush - I have no idea what it is, but it's deep color is beautiful. Happily, it doesn't taste good to Baasha, whew!
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Lilacs just smell so heavenly.
You always know it is truly spring when they bloom :)
(yesterday when I was "test driving" a new horse I saw our first crocuses!! another sure sign of spring)
Ooo I miss Lilacs Lytha. We had them all over in Tundra Country, and the sight and smell of them blooming really let us know that Spring HAD come to stay. Here in the Southland, we have crepe myrtles. Very pretty colors.. but.... I miss that SCENT!!
Baasha looks great!! His feet w/ the little rocks sticking in them... hmmm.. Let me think on that a bit, and see what I can come up with. Might be he just needs to be leveled off a bit more often, to prevent any areas from developing where things can get in there.
Awesome..to have a Geocach so near to be able to take the Baa!
I read in a horsey mag last year that there is an Equicach GPS thingie bob to have and use for trail systems here...have to look into that!
I am still waiting for my White Lilacs to bloom...it could be that my shearhappy husband pruned part of the tree at the wrong time??huh..he does that!
The Dandelions are good for the liver in horses...not the false one though(one that are thicker and flat with hairs)
P.S.
I waited as long as I could....Sometimes one needs to break the rules...specially if they have made them up themselves!
Please accept the "Itrepid Riders Faction" award from me Lytha!!!
You totally deserve it!!
Kacy
Geocaching sounds fun, I will have to do some research and see if anyone has done it around here! Plus it will give me a reason to learn how to use the gps better! Sounds like you had fun on your walk!
So did you ever picture yourself at this point in your life, living in Germany with your pony and your main squeeze?
Sadly, Texas is too hot for lilacs.
I keep thinking of doing some kind geocacheing for equestrian parks...not sure if there would be enough interest. I may have to brainstorm some more. Our lilacs are out to...smell so good.
cdncowgirl you must live up in the rockies cuz crocuses are a february/march plant. hehehe
mrsmom - i have no idea what a crepe myrtle is but it sounds tasty. just like nm's merlot trees. mmmm.
allhorsestuff - thanks for the award, but we mostly led our horse around as if he were a dog! wait til you see the pic of baasha standing in the parkling lot of the grocey store as i transferred items from my shopping cart to his saddle bag. i felt pretty intrepid yesterday doing that, and got a picture too!
reddunappy - you live in geocaching central. although the sport technically began in oregon, the headquarters are in washington. go to geocaching.com and enter your zipcode, you'll be surprised what is hidden near your front door. ok i just did a search for you and found 200 caches hidden within 7 miles of downtown washougal, and 2000 hidden within 20 miles (not sure where you are!). of course many of those are on the "wrong side" of the river, hehehe. you live in a spectacularly beautiful area (i looked at some of the pics of the caches near there) so the geocachers local to your area have made it easy for tourists to see the pretty spots by hiding caches. that's how we always see a new town! if you look at the descriptions you'll probably see park names or landmarks you recognize.
leah, i never thought i'd leave the seattle area, cuz of my family and the natural beauty of the area. and endurance riding, my beloved sport that does not exist here (in any way recognizable as my sport, that is). i never thought i'd marry, and then i met him and realized this was it! i wonder if i'll still be here in 30 years! you mentioned TX being too hot for lilacs - but what it's not too hot for: WATERMELON! my dad's from texas and he told me stories about how they'd just eat the centers out of the watermelons in the field. that's my favorite god-made food, and even i can't imagine a whole field of them. or eating out just the middle cuz you have so many. sadly in germany, seedless watermelons are very hard to find. i'm totally spoiled by seedless watermelons, but i know that every year when i arrive back home, my mom has a huge seedless watermelon waiting for me in the fridge. all for me. mmmmmm!
photogchic - equus magazine had an article a few years ago about equi-geocaching. some people started a website that lists geocaches that are accessible by horse. that's cool, but in my opinion they are stealing from the hard working people at geocaching.com, cuz they basically just reprinted the cache listings. oh well, they'll probably get in trouble for that if they haven't already. geocaching by horse is awesome cuz it combines my passion with my husband's. first time i took him riding - ever - we were up on tiger mountain (cascade foothill) for 5 hours, finding geocaches. it was unforgettable!
Crape Myrtles are what we have in the south to remind us northerners of lilacs !! They're a mid-late-summer bloomer and they are very pretty, but I miss the acres of heavenly smelling purple and white lilacs growing wild in every fencerow in eastern Ontario, blooming their heads off from mid May through early June. When I went back to Canada one Memorial Day weekend I took some photos which I have in my collection.
There are a very few lilacs grown in middle Tennessee. Our local storekeeper must have one because there were blooms in the store the last part of March and it was GREAT !
Enjoy your lilacs while you can !!
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