Catching Up

I am really behind on writing on my blog so I apologize. I have made a nearly complete recovery now from pneumonia and I have been busy outside.

I did get to go to the Stanton show last week end and it was a really nice show. Vera mentioned Tristin Curtis and she is one of my favorites to watch ride in the show. As you could see from the photo Vera took of her, she is really classy the way she sits a horse and the training Wilda has given her is 1st class. That is the only way Wilda knows and it shows with her students that really take riding seriously.

I had several horses in the Stanton show but I think the one that had the most fun was the yearling colt I own called WOF Mountain Spirit. Due to a tack malfunction, the chain on the lead broke, Spirit got loose in the arena while he was showing in hand for the yearling colt class. Spirit had a nice romp in the arena before he allowed himself to be caught and put back on the lead. He put on quiet a show with his nice little canter around the arena. At one time we all thought he would jump the gate and head for who knows where but he was soon back in hand and the class continued. Of course after his little escapade he did not win the class but he may have won a few fans for his antics. With only two in the class S T and Spirit left with a red ribbon and I think S T s face was a little red as well.

Oh well that is show biz.

In her best showing yet, Rockin Andi won a 2nd place ribbon for a very nice showing in a large class. I was very pleased with her showing in that class and it just proves she is getting better and better. Jamie was very pleased with her performance in that class as well. She is really getting it together.

While I was in the hospital, we had a second foal. We had waited and I had worried over this foal for some time. We were figuring a due date for the last of May but her udder was filling up and her milk veins were really gorged with milk. When I went to the hospital, Wind Socks was so on my mind that the first thing I ask Mike on the first morning in the hospital was if Wind Socks had her foal yet. He hurried to the barn and came back to report that yes there was a new foal and it was a filly. Her name will officially be WOFs Celine's Risin Star. Celine is the name of one of my granddaughters and is such a sweet young lady of ten.

The first place I requested to be taken when I got home from the hospital was to the barn. She is such a sweet little and although she has not yet made up with me, I am working on it. It was so easy with Blazin Star. I was in the stall with him and his mother before he was on his feet and he comes to me in the field. He wants to be rubbed and scratched everywhere. I think it will soon be that way with Celine too once I get her over her shyness around me.

I have almost finished the book that my friend Michael Brummer sent me on Mountain Horses. It is really a good book. The pictures are outstanding. I know many of the people mentioned in the book and I know many of the horses. One picture that is very sweet is of Kaylee Tipton on Iron Man. She is just a small child and doesn't look over a year or 18 months old. She is sitting on the stallion with no one holding on to a lead line and no one in the picture with her. This is a breeding stallion and he has such a calm demeanor that her Daddy lets her sit on him alone. Is there a better testament to the calmness of Mountain Horses than that?

The name of this book is Rocky Mountain Horses by Bonnie Hodge. If you have an opportunity to get a copy of this book it will be well worth what you pay for it. It gives a history of the breed. And has many interesting stories of people who just wouldn't let the breed die. The book is filled with pictures of some of the foundation stallions of the breed and people who was instrumental in promoting the breed. It is a book that I found hard to put down. Thanks Michael for your kindness in sending me this book to read and enjoy.

Thank you all for your prayers on my behalf. God has been very good to me to bring me through this illness so quickly and so completely.

Later Everyone

God Bless and keep you in his loving care