Since the pandemic isn't getting any better I finally just asked my dad about doing a contactless pick-up or drop off. He chose drop off and swung by this morning. I was filling Jolene's waterbucket and everyone else was inside. He passed slowly as he left and saw me, waved, exchanged some words and away he went ( Read more... )

Baby stuff so I remember ( Read more... )

The day of the Draft Expo Marty mentioned she had someone interested in Hershey and Dakota. By that evening they were loaded up and gone. I didn't even see the truck and trailer. Dad hasn't sent me anything relating to them. We'll see if they've canceled the board payments or not next week. If not I get to mail them back ( Read more... )

Yesterday we hooked up Kitt again, this time with the shafts rotated upside down. I'm sure there is some driver out there who might have a coronary about that, but the enclosed shafts let us cheat like that. It put the cart level and I could actually put the shaft loops on the backband rings rather than my usual jury-rigging with carabiners * ( Read more... )

As usual I start with reviewing and commenting on last year's goals.
( Conveniently under a cut )

Yesterday I got my first hair cut in two years. Maybe more. I can't quite remember ( Read more... )

Thursday I had another lesson with Carrie K. from the North valley. I admit I haven't done nearly so much active riding this pregnancy as I was with the last two, Regardless I'm trying to get what I can from these lessons. I wasn't able to make any last month so I'm going to try and double up this month. I'm not sure if I'll try for one in ( Read more... )

Pilfered from flirting.

( Memeish )

The morning started out with a very lame Charm-N. I fed the horses loose so I could clean the stalls and she was hobbling pretty good from pile to pile. It looked like it was mostly her right fore, but she looked a little ouchy all over ( Read more... )

Some writing with Kallon.We stayed an extra day because my grandparents flew in yesterday afternoon. We spent the day in Provo canyon before they arrived and visited for a couple hours. They were happy to see the boys and the boys them ( Read more... )