Riding

So these are all backwards. :-P But please bare with me and just scroll through them from the bottom up. :-) At the top is Bonchimon going for her first ride outside the pasture and very excited about it! The pictures of Elzear are of his second ride! He's doing very well! Loving these race horses today! :-) Thank you to John Arcand for taking the pictures!

Off to explore the farm! She was so excited to be out and exploring! I had to hold her back or she would have given me a jockey's view of the farm! LOL!

Wait up there, I have to get ready! And that's be me speaking! She couldn't wait to go exploring!

She's ready!

Blurry as it may be, I love this picture!

He's so soft in the mouth and lovely to ride!

How's the brakes?

Checking out the flexion.

Almost riding.

Half-way!

Checking and making sure he's alright for riding.

Giggles are possibly good for the soul??

So today Vicki took me in to Wal-mart and there I met up with a good friend by the name of Bekah. Some of you know her, other don't. Those who don't are missing out on knowing a very sweet young lady, who is a inspiration to me every time I'm in contact with her. Anyways, we had decided to go shopping together. :-) First off I got some pictures printed there at WM then we headed off to a Christian book store where we dug around in all sorts good things, like Bibles, books, music cds, and last but certainly not the least we dug around in some of the delicious cheese cake, carrot cake, iced cappuccino, and iced mocha, as served by the cafe in the store. That was just the start of the fun!

I had never been mini golfing, so Bekah decided to take me to Market Mall. The first thing we did there was go mini golfing, or maybe that would be hitting the balls around 5-8 times to get them in the holes and giggling the whole time. We did get through the 18 holes and then went shopping.

We got all sorts of stuff. As you can see by the pictures. :-) Bekah said it (the hat) looked good on me. :-) So at mix or match 5/$10, I got it, the necklace, and the scarf along with some other things. :-)

After a few other stores, we got some food and then headed home. It was so fun! We giggled over just about everything, but got some really good conversation in as well.

On Friday evening John, Vicki and I went in to see the Jazz Manouche in the Broadway theater. It was featuring the Hot Club of Edmonton ( http://www.hotclubedmonton.com ) and Les Imposteures [the imposters] ( http://www.christinetassan.com/ ). I knew three of the band members for The Hot Club of Edmonton, Clinton and Freddie Pelletier, and Daniel Gervais. The bass player, Keith Remple, was an amazing musician! Les Imposteures were great musicians as well! It is an all female group, while their music wasn't as lively as the HCoE, they are very pleasant to listen too. :-) Jazz Manouche is also known as Gypsy Jazz. It's very different from regular jazz. The concert was put on by CBC, it should soon be on CBC On Demand. Check it out sometime. :-)

Saturday, Freddie came out to give me 'a few pointers on my guitar playing'.... It turned out to be a 4 hour lesson. My head was about exploding by the time we were done. I have a LOT of theory to learn and practice. :-)

The colts are doing pretty good in their training. I'm riding Bonchimon, and hope to soon be riding Elzear. :-)

I'll sign out for now.

Lydia

Some News...

So, this morning around 6:30 Martha shot herself a cow elk! I talked to her on the phone and she sounds really excited, even though she says that she's only 'a bit' excited. :-) I'm excited for her!

I'm reading a book called Growing UpCountry by Don Mitchell. I'm about 3/4 of the way done reading it. There was one chapter that I didn't really appreciate, but other than that I have really enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anybody wanting to read about raising kids and a flock of sheep in Vermont. It has lots of humor and also good knowledge about both. :-)

The horse training is coming along. I have both of the colts saddled, and I'm working on the right before riding stuff. :-) Like being able to bounce beside them... being able to put my foot in the stirrup and bounce, etc. Getting closer and closer to actually riding. 15 days down, with 15 to go. I'm now getting anxious to go home and start hunting! :-) But I'm still enjoying my time here.