Mila on Apache, Rita on Styx, and Gates on Toy,...and Ranger's ear. Riding at the Grasslands, Saturday, November 6, 2004. Notice that Mila and Rita (and I, but you can't see me), were wearing blaze orange vests--it was opening gun season on deer. My husband, Bob, took his spike buck that very morning, with his black powder gun, somewhere out there on the Grasslands. Apache looks pretty clean, doesn't he? That's because he (and Ranger both) had a bath at the local car wash that morning!