Boy Saturday was a long day... I worked ALL the horses and I also did a full body clip on Dancer because I'm tired of taking forever to get her dried out after work outs... (MUCH better after the body shave!) But BOY was she a bugmonster during our training session on Saturday... it was NOT a particularly FUN day, but at least got it ended on a good note.

She had Sunday and Monday off. Today she was a VERY good girl. Her warm up jog was PERRRRRRRFect!!!!! It was slow, well cadenced,...

The fires rage on in California and I keep worrying I'll learn of more friends who've lost homes, thankfully, not so far...

Today I was able to help assimilate information of valid assistance organizations for animals in general, horses and dogs specifically. It is not a lot, but it is something and maybe other people will see the information and be able to donate money or other types of assistance.

After a long but relatively productive day at work today and managed...

I had a long weekend... I worked 3 long days (left house at 8am and got home at 10pm Friday and Saturday and left house at 8am and got home at 8pm on Sunday,... VERY long days) at The Mane Event Horse Exposition in Chilliwack, BC Canada...

During that time, I was pretty much out of touch with the rest of the world... No TV, No internet, so no idea about how very bad the fires had gotten in Southern California over the weekend.

I lived in Orange County and LA County both...

Yesterday was a LOOOOONNNNGGGG day... I worked 9 hours, ran home to let dogs out of the house, found out my NEW turn out blankets arrived from Schneider's Tack (yippeee), so grabbed Dancer's plus her new headstall and drove the 25 mins out to the barn and tacked her up and worked her for about an hour... then while she was standing drying in her cooler (had to rinse all the sweat off of her) I spent 45 mins making up her feed mix for the next two weeks (bagging it all so barn only has to dump concoction...

Well, it became official, today I am definately a Full timer and, sigh, unfortunately, am working Mon-Fri's mostly although she is willing to let me work some 4 10s on the weekends I need a Friday to go to a show, etc...

I am going to be one tired puppy for awhile until I get used to not sleeping ever , lolol... since I was going to be able to sleep in a bit on Fridays, lol... Weekends never seem to be open for sleep, too much to do... OH well, at least I should be able to afford my...