ride4acure

I’m feeling the razor sharp reality of having 50 hours to go until ‘this boat sails’!

I have a ‘mud map’ in front of me  on a huge poster size peice of paper that has aproximately 100 tasks under 15 different headings  on it with blessedly 90% of those things now have a big fat green line through them!  A few last minute preparations and we’re good to go.

Today Friday the horses are getting reshod, final checking of all equipment lists for horses, humans, dogs and truck.

Clarke Horseshoes have generously donated our shoes and nails again for this trek.  This time we’re trialling tungstan studs in the shoes to help prolong life of horse shoes.  Last year on my trek I was reshoeing the horses each fortnight!  Hopefully this will slow things down a little!

I’m doing two presentations about ride4acure and the trek,  at two local schools Kinchela Primary and also St Joseph’s Primary Kempsey this morning.  Kinchela Public will be following ride4acure and using our trek as part of their cirriculum for Geography and PDHD (physical and human development?) the Principal at Kinchela was Hannah’s teacher for a couple of her earliest years at school and made a deep impression in Hannah’s heart and held ‘best teacher in the whole wide world’ status!

Joe has his final day at school today for the term and is ‘pumped’ about what’s happening and ahead.  His rat Emily is coming and has her name painted on the side of the truck as ‘Emily the Adventurous Rodent’!  My question is what would this big adventure be like from a Rats perspective? Hmm.

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