Gil

I can't believe we are doing this. But I don't think Banjo will be a beginner horse--his speed will scare a new rider and he has a lot of energy. And we'd like a horse to ride with our quarter horse friends. Recently, a palomino quarter horse came up through Big Springs Horse Market in Wisconsin Dells. He's 14.1 hands, 6 years old and was listed as beginner safe. So we decided to take a look at him. Once again, we decided not to take the trailer with us to check on a horse. It would be too tempting to bring just anything home.

I left work at 2:00 and Bob and I headed south. The weather has been wet every day since Saturday but we managed to dodge the raindrops long enough to check out "Gil". He's friendly and very responsive. He's only been trail ridden and has camped and best of all, likes to just plod along. How nice! He is easy to catch. He hasn't had a lot of ground manners, but we'll work on that. We put half down on him.

On the way home, we tried out some new names. We have a Sparkler, why not Glitter? Too feminine. Glitter Man? Absolutely not. Guitar? After all, we have a Banjo. No. I think it's either Gilligan or Gilly. We'll have Jo deliver him next week.