When I was a kid, this is what I thought 2012 would be like.
Its a new year with new adventures ahead. I find myself excited for the year 2012. While we aren’t flying around in little space ships like the Jetsons, we do have some pretty cool technology at our fingertips I didn’t imagine when I was a kid. I feel like great things are going to happen in 2012 for our family and for our friends. I’m excited for 2012!
Our first big adventure of the year starts next Friday when we head South to Arizona to do some riding. We leave 10 horses, 2 dogs and 6 cats here for Murray’s Grandparents and parents to look after. I wouldn’t be sad if we didn’t come home to 6 cats – just sayin’
We are all driving this year (Grady and I flew last year). We will haul 4 horses with us in our trailer. Our friends Corrie and Dwayne already left with our stock trailer and one of our horses. Danger Bay is already on her way and we will take Glory, Laila, Gringo and Juice. We have a camper trailer there that sits on Joe Lucas’s yard at Maricopa. We really enjoy it there and we get a lot done with our horses.
Glory is doing really well (she had her pastern fused in June). I am finding that she is traveling more elevated, using her hind end better and stopping better than ever. Murray has noticed she stands really good to shoe and her front feet look better than ever. I just put back shoes on her this week since she has been barefoot on the hinds. We think that this may be from being more sound she is traveling more balanced which in the long run is improving her feet. Hopefully by the end of our time in AZ I will be able to run her at a jackpot. I still have some legging up to do.
What’s the Itsy Bitsy Spider got to do with this post? Well, I’ve been singing a lot of kids songs and nursery rhymes lately being a Mom and all. I got to thinking about the Itsy Bisty Spider…. he’s a pretty resilient spider, much like some barrel racers I know. He may have been washed out the water spout, but when the sun came out he was sure to climb back up a again. When training horses there are lots of ups and downs, lots of rain, lots of sunshine.
I’m going to remember to keep things light – When the sun shines….climb back up the spout!
