It's Raining...and cold

Horses: It's pouring rain right now. And cold out. And we are due to load up to leave for a horse show in six hours. Ugh. Our last show was in the rain and cold...but that one was also totally outside with shed-row stalls and an outdoor arena. At least this time there are enclosed barns and a huge indoor arena. At least in the section of the fairground where we will be has that stuff. At the other end of the fairgrounds is another show area that is like the one I mention above. This is where 5 or 6 high school equestrian teams will be competing in a regional meet tomorrow including a few girls we know. I feel bad for them. The equestrian teams have had really bad luck with weather on their meet days the past few years. Hopefully most of this rain will move out of here quick today and tomorrow will be dry...and Sunday since we have two days.

Stanley is clipped (mostly) and ready to go. We'll bath at the show since they have warm water and it's in an enclosed area to keep it a little warmer. He's already gotten so shaggy even with having him blanketed. Equestrian Girl and I had to work a long time on trimming his ears! They were big fur balls after not having shown for 5 weeks and the cold weather setting in so fast this fall but I'm sure he's not the only horse that's going to be a little extra fuzzy.

Equestrian Girl has a BAD cold. She's starting to feel a little better but the nose is a faucet and she's coughing a lot now too. Poor kid - and now to subject her to this cold wet weather. I have feeling I'm going to be doing more than my share of show-mom duties this weekend just to keep her warm and dry. And then of course I'll catch it for Monday...

Motocross: Next weekend Motocross Boy does something new in racing. Some people have gotten together and built a track at a golf course/ski resort up north but it's not a normal course, it's more of an enduro type track that is much narrower and winds through natural elements. It's also a race against time as opposed to other riders - they won't all go off at the same time in order to spread them out around the track. So there can and will be times where riders are racing "each other" on the track but the winner is the one with the fastest time overall and not necessarily who crosses the line first. The neat thing for us is that its about 15 minutes away from our cottage so we don't need to stay at the track in the trailer!! We'll be able to go out for a few hours to watch and then leave to our warm, comfy cottage. Hopefully the weather will be good...

Homeschooling: It's been a rather rough week with Equestrian Girl not feeling so good and Motocross Boy being only motivated by getting a new street hockey stick. We also had some computer issues with Motocross Boy forcing me to put a very aggressive parental watch program on his laptop...