Late on my Woodside wrap up because of transportational complications. Arthur drove his buddies truck up and had a right front blow out. (Blessing before loaded horses) After discovering he has no spare, spending 4 hours on the side of the road and AAA cant help him, he takes a dually tire off the back, puts it on the front and limps home. Leaving me with 8 horses and a four horse trailer. Now Ive had 5 horses in 4 slots and a pony in the tackroom before, but I wasnt gonna pull this off, so I loaded up 4 and headed home, unloaded, turned around, drove back and picked up the other four. Terri, Kelly and Katy stayed to help me (heart heart) and everyone was home safe in 6 hours. Hell, my poor Southern California eventing friends were still driving so I cant complain. Alls well that ends well and we ended pretty well. Everyone in the top 10 except for Kaya. You remember she was eliminated when Connor wouldnt go near the grob and sombrero dude, well, we got permission to go cross country and Connor spooked and dumped her on the 4th fence. TRA 500 meter sprint. Kaya was up and fine. Just a bruised arm. What a little trooper. Poor kid got beat up this weekend and made TRA history being the only kid to get Eliminated twice in one event. Definitely something up with Connors eyes. Steinbecks finest will check it out and we will figure something out for Kaya. A few benign rails here and there for the showjumping crew, Jenny finishes 7th in the YR Prelim. Kelly 5th and Ally 9th in the Jr. Training. Novice Cross Country all double clear. Jordan 6th, Katy 7th and Angela 1st. Always a Sunsprite on the scoreboard. They all loped around beautifully and Angela kept her stirrups. Little Ella had an educational drive by at the turkey feeder that I told her Frog wouldnt like, but she is young and has lots of time to believe me in the future. Still, she actually moved up to 9th with half her field having educational moments too. Its all good. Probably the easiest event I have ever done with my veteran parents. We were packed and ready to go in record time (lotta good it did us) and were laughing about the fact we had two doctors, one nurse, a financial advisor, a spiritual advisor, a therapist, 2 food industry persons and a vet. We were set for a Zombie Apocalypse. Everything but a tire salesman.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 03:22:18 +0000
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