This morning I was awake at 3a. I laid in bed until 4a and finally just got up for the day. By 6a I was missing Gwin and decided to take a ride over to see her. Gwen was at the barn already. She was preparing the horses' morning meals of soaked beet pulp and supplements. She showed me how the horses come in and go into their stalls to eat on their own. So cute.

Then she put them all out to pasture. 
It was so beautiful to see their silhouettes in the sunrise on the field.

What a way to wake up. 

Gwen and I visited and then she headed back up to the house. I brought the horses in after a total of 30 minutes.

I took Gwin to the round pen and worked her at a trot on a lunge line in little circles all around the pen, both ways. Then I rode her bare back awhile, also in the pen. She did great. Lots of leg work, again.

Just as the sun was starting to get hot I turned Gwin back out to her friends and was back home taking my morning shower by 8:30a. 
It was a wonderful start to a potential summer weekend morning ritual.