God looks after me in strange ways I think

Very windy day at the ranch. Got Taylor in to doctor his ongoing leg problem, hobbled him to get used to the hobbles and quit pawing.

Left the halter on Pedro so was able to catch him and put on the side hobbles in the pasture while I took Willie to the Arena.

I eventually got Pedro from the pasture and you should have seen how happy he was to actually let me catch him. Hmmm...maybe I'm onto something.

Pedro and Willie stood in the barn quietly NO PAWING, for quite a while, and waited til I groomed them and had my meat pie for lunch. I saddled Pedro, and it was then that Robert brought his two horses Cisco and Kelly to the Ranch. They got all the horses running around like idiots and challenging each other, it was a hoot. I put Pedro in the round pen with the saddle on while this was all going on. Of course it turned out to be seconds too late when I spotted the saddle slipping on Pedro. By the time I got to him it had slipped a lot to the side and he got bucking! Well, there wasn't much I could to but watch at this point. I tried to calm him down to no avail (ever try to calm a bucking horse down?!!!). Well both cinches decided to break at the same time, and the saddle came off. Luckily, cause if the back cinch was left on it could have been serious problems. It took a bit to get him calmed down.

The good thing was, that I was NOT on him at the time. Karen, one of our riders has been off over a month with a pretty good injury because this happened on the trail. I was thinking of replacing the billet strap with a nylon one on the off side, but thought it was good enough. WRONG! Well I bought a new one tonite, and Ross is getting me a new back cinch from his saddlemaker friend. I am going to replace the latigo too, cause I sure don't need it to break either. Like I said, God looks after me in mysterious ways...I probably would have been on him when that happened if it wasn't for these circumstances. Thank you God!

I did a short round pen with both Willie and Pedro and called it a day. Always need to leave a positive impression cause horses remember the last thing you do with them.