Update

Not much happening on the home front. Gettin up at 5, dragging our feet to the barn in the pitch black cold. Feeding & letting the horses out. Muckin out some stalls if there´s time, hurrying home to wake the kiddos, get them fed and ready for school. Hitting the shower while gulping down your own breakfast, jumping into your socks and hopefully remembering the kids when you speed out of the yard heading for the ferry taking you to the mainland and the office.

Oh yeah, the dog hopefully loaded in the back...

The mutt by the way likes cake! He apparently thought it was ok to stand on the kitchen table gulping down my fathersday cake on Sunday!

Home around 6pm, finish stall-muckin duty and maybe have time to ride Brady, work with a filly or two and oversee Ida riding her Elton. Dinner fixing (Annelies doing mostly, thank god) and then get the brats ready for bed, crash on the couch for a bit before heading back to the barn feeding and lights out at 10pm, phew! Wonder why I´m tired this time of year? Thank god for weekends! We definately need more of those!

Polly is weaned by the way and is doing really well. Cat is getting better and better also but has sustained some trauma to the extensor tendon aswell as the pastern she sprained earlier. I don´t think it´s major but still something to keep our eyes on.

Gearing up for the clinic next weekend. People seem to look forward to it and so am I. Gonna be fun and if I can help some folks out, great!

The cowhide, Rosie is now 4 strands of very unevenly cut string! It was a bit to moist when I cut it I think and I had a hard time getting evenly cut strands. Will probably cut the tamales and use the good parts for the bosal projects and scrap the reata plans for now. No use braiding a reata that couldn´t hold a mouse!