Views of Fall

Talk about late to the party….

Whew doggy, the new header as we all know, Dear Reader, is supposed to be up on Wednesday and here it is Sunday!  I keep waiting for the not so busy season to arrive.  It hasn’t, and now I’m not so sure it will. 

Catching up on the blog day, just some fun family-ish stuff that has occurred since I last fell off the face of the earth, (personally I’m glad the earth is flat it is easier to find an edge to grab onto as I’m falling and chinny back up)

A week and a half ago my second oldest daughter and son added to why October is my favorite month, a baby grand girl was born on the nineteenth,

 two weeks early, and not a second behind gorgeous!

Her name?  Ruby.  Ruby Stone.  Her mamma hopes she doesn’t end up with red hair, I hope she does.  But it looks like mamma might get her way.  We’ll see, hair color changes a lot in our family.  Momma had very dark hair that stood straight up when she was born, we loved it but it did cause some embarrassing moments, then it finally laid down and went blonde.  So who knows with Ruby Elowyn Stone’s hair.

We, Dirt, Bet and I, haven’t spent a lot of time with her, only her first evening.  They live in town, New Dad had this last week and a half off to be with his girls full time, so… we’ll bug her starting… now, with a morning-ish visit tomorrow!

Dirt wanted to call Michelle (the new mom) up last Saturday and ask her where she was, we were missing her.  We were all at the annual October gaming day with the horses.  She needed to be there too, she is the one that started us on this unshakeable tradition, Dirt didn’t think that having a baby was really a good enough excuse!

We had lots of fun, the rain wasn’t as bad as predicted, but we were prepared for monsoons. 

Very prepared. 

Dirt has ramped up his camp set up.  Mind you, Dear Reader, we’re only there for a day, seven o’clock until six or six-thirty.  So far Dirt only makes lunch/dinner in his camp.  This year it was chili, burgers with grilled onions, all the fixin’s and chips. 

Next year we figure he’ll add breakfast and maybe fries to the lunch menu.

The Bowerman girls joined us as usual and Justin brought Anna down from up north.

And guess who rode along with the girls?! Me! I risked life, limb and hip!  Bet had me practicing and accumulating rear-side blisters the two weeks before the show, so I wasn’t in too much danger of physical calamity.  But I was riding Ivan.  That alone on any particular day can leave a person a fine line from a fracture.  Sorry, no pictures of me, I had the camera on my belt.

But lots of the girls, the arena is rather dark and my camera isn’t fancy so the pictures are blurry, but you’ll get the picture…

a fun day, all of us rode in three or four events,

and Bet rode both Holly and Ivan, training for all three of them. 

Bet offered to let me ride Holly in the last event, but I’m not that crazy, Holly likes to run in the game shows, Ivan prefers to barely lope.  Right now that is my speed, gone are the days that I would willy nilly throw myself on my horse, Easy, and see how fast we could go over land and logs. 

But I have been bit by the bug.  Next purchase will be a helmet.  I’ve experienced a mighty whap on my noggin’ back in o’ three on asphalt and I don’t care to experience that horrid feeling ever again.  I saw a gal with a helmet that I really liked, when I got home I looked up the brand, Tipperary, and they weren’t all that expensive so it’s on the Christmas list.

I won’t keep you too long today Dear Reader, I’m still experiencing the “busy season” with lots to do.  I do believe that I’ve reconciled myself to not ever seeing a not-busy season again, so I need to stop waiting for a good time to catch up with blogging.  The housework on the other hand, it can still wait.