As a self proclaimed horse girl ™ (who hasn't ridden a horse in almost 6 years :'( ) I highly highly encourage the horse riding endeavor! A nice long, slow trail ride through the cool forest in summer is such an awesome feeling. Bathing with horses also cool (you can lead a horse to water, and it either splish-splashes or says 'no thx'). Personal bum heater in the winter when you ride without a saddle. Super soft muzzles. Anywayyyyyy also big yes to mounted archery, sexy as fuck. Have a great day <3
Perhaps the most bittersweet thing about Super Rad high-investment hobbies as far as cost or equipment or setting go, is that unless you’re tremendously lucky or do it for a living, you are so often missing them!
I live somewhere with some Horse Culture and I have now (mostly) abandoned my romanticized fantasies of having a little horse, in part because my place is not well-suited to it at all, and in part because I now have Horse Acquaintances and understand keeping a horse these days is basically financially like owning an ambulatory boat. But all of them love it.
Anyways, fabulous sell on horses anon, and I hope you get to go for a ride again sometime soon 💛 I am gonna see if I can talk any of my friends into going on a trail ride - thank you for the encouragement :)
