Kara's first ride for the year. I took Kara out to ride Bubbles as I was planning to on her birthday but it rained so the next good weather day I did. It was quite windy when we went out though since we had to wait for Matt to wake up and watch Logan. Kara stood outside the corral while I went in and haltered Bubbles.
Kara helped me brush Bubbles to get her ready to be saddled.
We decided to take Kara into the arena to ride, so it wouldn't be as windy, which was great, but the wind shook the chains for the door and for a single second I let go of Kara's leg and she ended up falling from her horse. It was the weirdest thing.
It still happens in slow motion to this day in my mind.
- We stopped Bubbles to lead her back the other direction.
- I momentarily took my hand off Kara's leg to look back at the door.
- Terri was leading Bubbles and I heard her say "you should catch her"
- Next moment, I am watching Kara slowly fall to the ground.
- She hits the dirt and gets up spitting it out of her mouth.
- She didn't cry and she wasn't hurt.
- She told me that she didn't want to ride anymore but I explained to her that if we fall off a horse we need to get back on.
- She said okay and preceded to ride for another 15 minutes.
This is our picture being taken at the end of Kara's ride.
Video - Kara feeding Bubble her treat after we finished taking off the saddle.
I learned my lesson with Kara after thinking about her experience on Bubbles. I had brought her bike helmet for her to wear, but left it in the car. I always do ground work with any horse I ride before getting on their back, but didn't with Bubbles this one time. I shouldn't have gotten distract while Kara was on Bubbles back.
Lesson learned to listen to the Holy Ghost and not put it off that everything is going to be alright.
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