We need water! The hunter pace hits 90 degrees!

Amy, Angie and I had a great time at the hunter pace at Bucks County Horse Park. The course was almost eight miles and baking hot, and we ended up on our knees drinking from a stream halfway through! The horses were great (Itty and Azi have the Arabian trait of being imervious to heat!) and Rusty got to jump a ton of cross country fences, including some of the bigger ones. The heatwave continues, and today found me shampooing Doc outside his stall here at the house. When he was all clean and cool I turned him loose to graze for a minute while I went to get the scissors to give him his Spring haircut. When I came out of the house there he was rolling in the newly rototilled garden!!! Of course when I approached him he took off round the garden and dropped and rolled again, before spotting an escape route and galloping off through the brush in the lower field into the woods (there's no fence, and we back onto thousands of acres of private land!). I could hear him crashing around and sure enough, he came thundering back up through the garden, leaving huge footprints before stopping on the lawn to graze. I finally managed to catch him and found myself caked in dirt as the sweating, mud covered brat shook himself all over me!