Never ends

The excitement never ends around here. I was going for 14 hours straight yesterday. I didn't even get a chance to check e-mail midstream. I taught a lesson in the morning. Then Paula and I went across town to check out a couple of horses for sale. I got home just in time to teach evening lessons. My Intermediate kids had a very good night. We were working some gymnastics to establish rythym for all of them as prep for this weekend. Amador still believes he has to get the big horse distances, so is a bit quick down the lines. But, he truly has given Paula his heart. He hasn't offered to stop with her since the very first time. After this weekend I will ride him a few times (with her permission) and really force the slow down with him. Sean and Maggie are doing fantastic for novice riders. When they have a funny landing she will still think about a small buck, but man when they get it together they are almost unstoppable. LEt's hope all pistons are a go this weekend.

Speaking of car repairs...Dan was working on his brakes last night after I came in for the evening. I got in the shower and had just sat down when I heard a scream out the back door. I look out and he's hopping around on 1 foot with a wealth of colorful vocabularly coming out of his mouth. Before he even had his shoe on there was a knot the size of a raquetball on his foot. I gave him some ibuprofen and had him get cleaned up in the shower. Then we went to East Cooper. I whole heartedly expected it to be broken...Good news it was just soft tissue damage. Needless to say he's home for a couple of days with limited mobility, and the car is laying on it's rotor. I know not good, but not something I can deal with right now.

I'm on my way to meet Diane to go to North Carolina. We need to make a new addition to the family. We're picking up Danny who is the camp pony that Paula learned to jump 3 foot on. He can't do that sort of height anymore, but she is still very excited to have him coming to the farm as a lesson pony.

Finally, you will find I added a couple of features to the blog page. The important one is an SMS sender. YOu an send me text messages if you need anything. Yes, I do in fact have a new phone, and yes I am in fact carrying it. I won't list the area code. If you're local you should know it. The rest is 408-7500.