Waredaca Recognized Eventing Show

Sara made the plunge to participate in a Recognized Horse Show. She was doing well and dealing with the stress in stride until...... she found out that Phillip Dutton and other professinal riders were participating in this show. Fortunately, she is not competing against Phillip Dutton, but she is now rubbing shoulders with the big boys and girls.

So many things she has to do: braid Satchmo's mane (fortunately, she found someone to do that for her), give him a bath, clip his muzzle (to get rid of that 5 o'clock shadow), clean his tack and get the trailer loaded up on Friday evening before the show. No ride times, yet, but we are hoping for times that are not at the crack of dawn nor at the end of the day. They should be up around 2:00 today, so stay tuned.

We went cross country schooling last Sunday; after the falls I have had, I was a little nervous, but I persevered and made sure I used those legs! Amazing how well things go when using the right aids for jumping. My confidence level went up a lot after that trek to the schooling field.

We had a short visit with Dave's niece and her family, who were in this neck of the woods to attend a family reunion from her father's side of the family. She and her husband have three lovely kids. We saw them on Friday with Dave's parents and Sara for a Chinese dinner, then again on Monday for homemade pizza. That's it in a nutshell; you really don't want to hear the boring details of it all!

If this weather ever gets cool enough, I will run outside; so far, I've only done TM work. I ran one 5K in July, but fortunately, it was one of the cool mornings before the temps went out of control. Speaking of which, I've signed up for a 5K on October 6 in Washington, D.C.

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