Saturday!

Horses:  The girl in the picture is one of Equestrian Girl's friends with her 4 year old green broke horse - this was actually taken at his first show this spring.  About 20 seconds after this photo was taken he spooked at a reflection on the announcer's booth and dumped her.  She was fine.  But since that weekend which was followed by a big Paint show the following weekend that was even more disastrous, they've had him back in training and taking him to lots of shows even if they don't show - just to hang out in the environment.  They were at a small 4-H Open show today with quite a few others that we know that work with our trainer so Equestrian Girl and I went to watch for a while.  It was so weird to be at a horse show with all our riding friends and not be showing!  I sort of felt a little lost not having a job to do!  But our friend's young horse was doing well and bringing his girl lots of ribbons.  Her little sis was riding him in walk/trot classes and doing very well too.

Motocross:  Dad and Motocross Boy are on the road!  Rain changed their plans a bit since the place where they had wanted to go is notoriously muddy after just the littlest bit of rain (which we had) so they found some other place to practice today which has gone good.  They'll head up to the track where he's racing tonight to camp over.  

Camping at motocross is a bit different than at horse shows - no electric or water and we've only been to one track that had bathrooms with flush toilets and showers - but they also had a pool!  (I really liked that track for obvious reasons).  So that means if you want to run more than just the lights you need to also run the very noisy generator.  Yes, to make a pot of coffee I need to run the generator!  But motocross races are inherently noisy.  Nobody is up at the crack of dawn like horse shows when the announcer tests the speakers at 6 a.m. blasting you out of your cozy cocoon but come 8 a.m. you start hearing generators kick over, bikes motor up, golf carts running, and the announcer comes on followed by the non-stop rock and roll and head banger music!  

Equestrian Girl and I might head up tomorrow morning but I doubt it.  I'm a bit nervous to drive the Dodge that far after the fiasco at the beginning of the week.  And I'm still not feeling all that wonderful but only needed a 45 minute nap today!