Hey there!

Okay, back to blogging. I just wasn't really in the mood to write. Odd but whatever, I'm back on track now. We've been fairly busy in the barn. We currently have 14 racehorses which means me are FULL. We have two other stalls but one is occupied by my father-in-law's quarter horse and the other by my Lego. The stalls are small and these two don't seem to mind.

Speaking of Lego...he is feeling much better. After working on him a bit the other day, FIL found his jaw and upper part of his neck was out of alignment. He was really quite painful to the adjusting gun. I haven't had time to ride him this past week so he's been trotting on the machine or I run him around in the round pen. He needs to keep up with the exercise and I've just been running out of time. So today I worked him in the round pen again. After being adjusted he seems to be a new horse! He was forward and happy to be moving out. His rear end was not "hocky" and I didn't have to chase him to get him to keep going. Hey....I have a pretty nice horse after all!

The racehorses are doing well (knocking on wood). We had a second at Philly Park last week. Tonight we are in the 10th at mountaineer....then we are also running tomorrow night and Sunday night. Please cross all crossable parts for some good races!

Hannah is zipping around the house on some much less wobbly legs. She is very proud of herself! She's figured out how to stand without grabbing onto furniture now. It's been fun watching her discover all the things she can do. She gives her rocking horse hugs and kisses too. It's adorable! Today we "walked" over to the barn to visit the horses. I hope her love of them continues to grow. It would be fun to someday ride together.

Oh...that massage I had? Well I was wicked sore from it for a week! I'm still sore all over but I'm not sure if it's due to galloping or what.

Last new news. Assumed Risk was not adopted from New Vocations. They called and told me he needed to go. They need the stall for others coming in. Well, that was a bummer. So Kimberley from MD said she could take him in if we could find a way to pay for his shipping costs. Kimberley has taken in several of our horses in the past and they do well with her. My good friends at exracers donated money as well as some from the Alex Brown Forums. Enough money (and then some) was raised to ship Risk commercially....in less than 24 hours! You guys are Da Bomb! Thank you to everyone who helped out!! Risk will enjoy his retirement much more now than if he'd been headed to Ohio State for the vet students to practice on!

Now...on to some pictures. Just a few of Hannah in the bath. I took some tonight of her in her carhardt bib overalls. They were given to us by a friend of the family. She looks so cute in them!

I have to do some downloading and will post those in my next update.