After a month+ hiatus, I'm back. 

Florida was warm. I returned to cold and snow. That doesn't really bother me.

I rode in Jean's arena. Daisy was a good girl. She got along well with Dixie, and actually lost a bit of weight because surprisingly, Dixie was the alpha mare and though she's really not very aggressive at all, Daisy still respected her and her food completely.

Jean trailered Daisy home for me on Tuesday. Daisy is happy at home :) and I'm happy to have her home. We've been road riding again, starting to build up her muscles again. We've only gone with the bareback pad this week because it's fun. All the snow melted, and then we were dumped with over half a foot again on Wednesday, so until it melts, I'm going bareback. Because that's my excuse. 

Daisy has started shedding (oh goody). This means our appointment for a spring vet check will be right around the corner, along with a visit from her dentist. I'm planning on going the new "alternative" root for deworming this season as discussed in the February issue of Equus. If you didn't read that edition, get your hands on it. It's important. It talks about doing a fecal exam instead of deworming "in case" they have worms because worms are becoming resistant to dewormer.  This is not a really new piece of knowledge, but this year I plan on putting it in action. 

Yesterday was my 16th Birthday and I recieved a new camera from my dad. I love it! It's a Kodak Easyshare M580. These pictures were taken with it yesterday and today. I'm really enjoying it.

I'm in the process of joining Pony Club with my friend Lydia. If it works out, I'll be able to ride the mile and a half down the road weekly for mounted meetings and lessons over the next few months. It's pretty exciting. 

I'm keeping busy. Hope you're all well,

Happy Mother's Day!

Slideshow of Ft. Lauderdale Trip 2008

This is a slide show overview of our trip to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida...lots of pics, a little long...I hope you like it!

If you're wondering about the picture of the dog at the end of the slide, check out http://abbydogdays.blogspot.com .

We had a wonderful trip, I'm glad to be home! I'll post something about Daisy soon, just want to say, she shed a lot of hair while I was gone, so she's really slender and pretty---no more fuzzy bear! :D The cats are good, too...lately they are killing snakes...they killed three just in the week I was gone. I have a feeling the snakes will be no more by the end of the summer!

OH, btw, you can hit the little "X" in the corner of the music video so it goes small and you can see the slide. ALSO, if the words don't come up on the slide, move your mouse over the slide. ;-)

Boots and a Show Shirt

Florida is nice....I don't know how else to start posts, lol...

Today my father surprised me by driving us to a totally western store...I can't remember what the store is called. Anyway, it sold western boots, show clothes, western hats, belt buckles, and western and English saddles and other horse supplies. The entire back of the store was cowboy boots and my dad bought me a pair...I feel REALLY blessed and oh so spoiled...I am spoiled. The pair is shown in both pictures. The boots are handmade with lizard skin (ew) but they are really cool. Then we browsed western show shirts and my dad bought me the one above. I'm really excited now-I'll wear the shirt and boots when I show this summer...sorry, I didn't have a pair of jeans to finish the look, so I had to wear khakis... :D

I'll post this coming weekend-we fly back on Wednesday and I'll be busy with school on Thursday and Friday. I'll share pictures and stories this weekend.

Just an Update------AND A TAG!

Hello, ladies and gents!

I'm enjoying Ft. Lauderdale quite a bit...it's HOT here! LOL...I don't have any pictures because I'm too lazy to put them on my mom's laptop, upload them, take them back OFF the laptop...so you'll get a slide show of pictures when I get back...so far we went to Emeril's with a friend for lunch on Thursday, saw the movie Expelled yesterday, today we went to our favorite church for a service, spent the morning at the beach...more next weekend with the pictures....I do worry a little about Daisy and our kittens, and the chickens, and the dog (in the kennel, check her blog here for more info), but I'm sure it's ok...I know though, when I get back, I'll have my hands full with Daisy! She won't have been ridden for a week! The person taking care of her tried to lead line walk her today, and she wouldn't do it! My horse is SOOO stubborn! You think she'd behave better with someone else to look good...but no, she doesn't...it's amazing that I love her so much, yet she's so stubborn sometimes...well, I'll figure it out...anyway, I'll post more later. If you'd like to see pictures of where where we are as a kind of 'taste' of the awesome pictures I have, check out my mom's blog...her pictures are alright, amateur compared to mine, but it's ok for now, I guess! :-P (JK mom! LOL)

OOPS! I JUST remembered, Strivin tagged me! Sorry, I don't have time to do links, but I'll do my tag...I have to make a poem thing with my name. Here it is:

M-mighty....GOSH, I don't know!
E-energetic
L-loving
L-loyal...wow,I sound like I'm a dog...
I-impulsive
M-uh huh, another 'M'...umm....manlike----by that I mean I'm human. :-P
A-awesome
U-ummmmmmmmmm-er (Hehe, I'm being lazy)
S-silly

Sorry, no one left to tag for this one! :D

Spring---and HERE I COME FT. LAUDERDALE!

Hello! Spring has sprung here in our neck of the woods, and I LOVE it! We did have (gasp, choke, hack, scream) snow on Sunday, but it melted during the day, and this coming week we're supposed to be in mid to high 80's! GASP! OOPS! I just mixed Florida weather up with NY weather! Haha. Yes, tomorrow morning we (my mom and I) are leaving to meet my dad in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. But don't worry, little New Yorkers, there will be high 70's while we're gone! Not too bad! Anyway, we have a nice 'young lady' taking care of our animals for us.

First picture is of sun over our house, second is of our indoor (fat) cat, Freckles, lying in the sun, and the third is of Genevieve lying on a lawn chair outside. She looks like the perfect little cat. I added the little picture to the corner just for fun-it's her about to pounce on her brother (brother cut out of the picture, though). She's a cutie. I'll post more when I get back, right now I have some last minute packing to do. We're leaving our house tomorrow morning at 8:30am. I may or may not post when we're in Ft. Lauderdale-I'm bringing my camera and my mom is bringing her laptop, so it all depends on if I'm lazy or not. :D

Talk to you sooner or later, I guess!