Ever ridden to your house?

Awww lovely pics! Danny is gorgeous and you look very proud of him :)
Unfortunately, my yard is 30 mins drive from home but we do ride to my friend's house and stop for a cold drink in the summer. Also to the pub, where we stand in the car park and have crisps and a shandy. Very nice when it is hot :D
 
Yes, they used to graze the very large garden. OH made the drive way into a hard standing with outside electrics (for clipping) and a tap (for bathing), proper tie rings and built a huge shed for all our stuff.
Neighbour took the hump though (she was horsey too, but I recon just jealous because she couldn't afford a horse of her own) and complained to the local council about it, who stopped me grazing the ponies there. They couldn't stop me bathing and clipping though, and the field was only a minute's walk away.
If she hadn't been such a snotty cow I'd have built stables up the top of the garden.
Mind you I don't think a three year old dartmoor going loopy in the garden and kicking a hole in the fence helped matters :o
 
My mare is kept at a livery yard just up the hill from our house, and the summer grazing comes right down to the back of our house. So quite often in the summer I don't go to the yard at all, but just take her out onto our track, tie her to a tree, tack up and go :D
 
Years ago I did, when the roads were a lot calmer not so much traffic,it was about five miles to my parents house and we had to through an underground walkway as well to get there but was great to have done it. No chance down here now to do that far to busy on the roads :mad:
 
Our first horse's field gate was about halfway between his stable and our house, so as we kept his tack at home, we often used to lead him to the house to tack up. I once rode him to the doctor's in the next village. I tied him up outside while I went in. I can't remember why I needed to see the doc but can only imagine that it wasn't for a bad back,lol!
OP Danny looks lovely, very similar to our gelding although he did have plenty of feather.
 
rhino said:
To my house? Yep
To my work? Yep
To my friend's house (where her mad old granny was determined to make my horse a 'wee sandwich')? Yep
Through the drive through McDonalds? Yep

I ride everywhere :D Lovely pics :)
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Lol- Thats me and that hacking buddy's plan for this year! Hack to KFC drive through!
Priceless!

Would love to hack the boy to work- but the M8 is and M74 are just the wee bit "hazardous?" :P

Was always my dream to hack to my house- again had visions of a beautiful black warmblood :p
But I've hacked upto the house on little Highland plenty of times. Did the same as you 4 years old, with not a lot of road or house experience, he was an angel!

Sounds like you did great congrats :D:D
 
We often come up to the house to let ponyboy have his own private garden munch...even in the foul weather that seems to be our constant climate these days! (Never let it be said we are fairweather riders!) OP your pix are lovely, you look like you thoroughly enjoy your lovely boy. :)

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yes, when I was 15 I was lucky enough to keep my first pony 400 yard away from my house so I used to take her home frequently. I used to let her graze the front lawn and sometimes would lead her through the utility to she could on the back lawn too :)
 
blessss, cute pics. That's exactly what you should be doing - not worrying about whether he likes you, just getting out and having fun (and proving that he does!).

Never ridden mine home but I do box them home in winter to clip as I've got no leccy at the yard. We were pretty close to my house when me and dafthoss did our epic 7 hour hack, but didn't have time for a detour. Have ridden to Morrisons before though and given the ponies ice creams out the front :p

gratuitous photo of Fergs trying to come in the patio doors...

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Yep! When I was a kid the horses I rode were about twenty minutes ride down the road. The woman who owned the horses was a family friend, and she asked me to relay a message to my father. Instead of waiting until after I was finished riding, I just rode the mare on over! The mare enjoyed 'mowing' the front yard, though my family was somewhat surprised. She really seemed to enjoy the change in our routine, too! My siblings even came out to say hello to her, though one of my brothers was convinced she was giving him the 'eyeball', and was thinking about biting him. :rolleyes:
 
Not done the drive through one as the horses are a bit highly strung but wish I could.
When we were fortunate enough to have them at home , daughters pony used to come into the kitchen and pinch sandwiches off her high chair table to squeals of delight from daughter
 
rode my old TB to my house which amused the neighbours, middle of a housing estate and the only thing that spooked her was the bubbles running down the road where someone was washing their car lol.
Taken the big grey thing to the pub, had a half while she cut the grass in the beer garden and then rode back to the yard:cool:
wouldn't want to ride to where i live now, in the middle of a council estate with too many gobby little kids around who i may be tempted to accidently squash;)
My daughter is dying for me to walk her pony up to her school so that she can ride home:D am tempted to borrow a trailer to take him home and then walk him up to school on her last day:D
 
Funnily enough my OH suggested I do this today! The back lawn is a foot long and too wet to mow!! Might borrow my friend's alpacas as well! ;)
 
All the time, I am lucky enough to have them at home, the barn is behind the house, the house is surrounded by paddocks.

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In Wales we lived in a row house with a very narrow path up the side of the house, I used to take the welshies up there to bath them, they'd spend the night in a garden shed! We also had a mini mare that lived in the garden and had her foal on the back lawn!
 
I'm not jealous at all Enfys... :-)

I haven't ridden home. I don't think the M20 is particularly horse-friendly and I'm not sure if the drivers would slow down to pass me.
 
Tinypony said:
I'm not jealous at all Enfys... :-)

I haven't ridden home. I don't think the M20 is particularly horse-friendly and I'm not sure if the drivers would slow down to pass me.
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:) It isn't all sunshine and roses having them at home. I rarely have time to ride because I am so busy doing everything else that has to be done, I have to sort out hay etc, pay all the bills, if things get broken then I have to mend them, I can't stay in bed if the weather is horrid. I have had four nights away from this place in 6 years !

On the other hand, 3 trucks and a couple of tractors along our road in a day constitutes busy. No, I think the M20 would not be horse friendly at all :(
 
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