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Saddling up Alice...

We were not sure what Alice would do with a saddle because we had no idea when she last was rode. So we got her out and we went to put the saddle pad on her and when it touched her back she tried to run away. After showing her what it was, then putting it on her back again she did fine. Then came the saddle, we showed her right away what it was and she sniffed it and went back to grazing so we stuck it onto her back and she didn't seem to care at all. Then we tightened it up and got everything adjusted to fit her right. Then came the fun part... we led her around the yard for a little while till my dad got brave enough to get on her.  He stuck his one foot into the stirrup and started putting weight onto it...that's when Alice put her ears back and started to do little hops and spinning. That went on for a few minutes my dad trying and trying again. We then called it a day and took the saddle and saddle pad off and put them away in the barn. We were happy with how she did for being the first time in at least a year or two without being ridden at all.

 

(will have pictures of her with the saddle soon)

Finally...

My family and I went to the flea market Sunday in search of a saddle for Alice. We stumbled upon a bunch of saddles pretty quickly. The prices on the saddles were okay but were a little high for us. We asked the lady if she had any cheaper ones and she showed us one and started gathering up stuff to make it complete.  She also asked us if we had a saddle pad and gave us the choice between the one pictured above or a thinner one for $10 less.  We chose the one above because of Alice being older and we wanted her to be comfy.  Finally she told us how much it would be for everything...$90, we just couldn't pass that up!