I was getting ready to leave for Alabama Sunday (for work), my sweetie was driving me to the airport - I showed her my new book to read on the plane (Same Sex in the City - Zerbie, it's great - don't agree with everything but very entertaining!), anyway... getting off track...
I called her from my stopover in Denver and she asked if I saw what she put in my book - then I realized she was the one who put the picture of us in it, I'm using for a bookmark, it's one of my favorite pics of us together.
I haven't shown a horse in 2 years - I've barely ridden anything in 2 years, and my trainer let me show one of his horses in a class at a show in my hometown on Thursday morning. I've only ridden this horse 3 x before the class and haven't ridden at all otherwise in 3 years. I was a little nervous (about screwing up!)...but rode confidently into the arena, we were great together, it was actually one of my very best rides ever! AND, we came away with 2nd place out of about 7 or 8 other horses! AND AND, my girlfriends' parents were there to watch and they and everyone else watching me said we should have won it! It was awesome to be back in the show ring!!! What a wonderful incredible gift - my trainer and his wife are also some of my very best friends!
