I love spring!

The weather has been absolutely gorgeous lately! We have been in the mid to upper 70's with an occasional 80 - something degree day in between. I've been going out to gallop in the morings 4-5 days per week now. "Aunt June" babysits for Hannah from 8am to noon most days. Hannah seems to like her and June thinks that Hannah is "hers." Ummmm....whatever! Anyway, most of my rides have been fun and relatively uneventful. Except when the redneck neighbors let their dogs chase us. They really could care less where their animals run. So the other day Sharon and her friend Pete were riding the cowponies when the dogs came running at them from behind. Pete and Sharon spin and chased them off with the ponies. I wish I had had a video camera handy. The dogs tucked their tails and ran home.



Hannah is becoming quite the chatterbox. She has me laughing pretty much everyday. Most of what she says saounds like "eeewww----oooo---eeeeeee-----ohhhh." The only time I hear anything remotely sounding like "Maaaaa....muuhhhh...." is when she cries. Go Figure!



Michelle called me a few times to let me know that Blake is doing well in his training. She said he's got the best mind evah and he tries his little heart out. Here he is with her boyfriend aboard. He's learnging about flexing here. It took a while because his mouth had been badly torn up when I first bought him. His teeth were in desparate need of being floated and he had lots of sores inside his mouth. So he did resist for some time. But so far so good!

Sealy is still playing "pasture pet" because I never seem to have anyone to watch her for alng enough to get a chance to work with her. So if/when Blake sells I'm hoping to send her to Michelle for training as well. I'm pretty bummed about not being able to ride her much. I was hoping to have her ready to show by now. Problem is that Hannah only seems to like to have only certain people watch her and those that are available are not currently on her "list."