Irish Day with Irish Ponies

Today I celebrated my great horse Autumn's birthday by being extra Irish and riding some genuine Connemara ponies. It is kind of always St. Patricks day around here because of the Connemara ponies, and the main color of Knox Farm is a lovely shamrock green. I thought about decorating the tack room then I realized there are already like 4 permanent shamrocks in there. So, perma St. Patty's it is then.
In other not so joyous news, as you probably know there was a crazy giant flooding of the Knox's basement. Mountains full of snow, plus a 20 degree temperature rise in a few short hours resulted in rivers running where they haven't been in probably a hundred years, including into the backdoor of a walk in basement.
The upside: I now know all the neighbors, as the whole town came to help with pumps, generators, hoses, backhoes, and even a crockpot dinner was brought for the workers. Wow! My faith in humanity was restored! Even when everyone left around midnight, I had to keep the pumps going even if I am mechanically declined. I couldn't get one started, so a great old ranch hand awesome man named Dub (appropriately) came at 2:30 in the morning to restart them. What a gem.
The downside: Can I be a negative nancy for once and say just about everything? Nah, that's no fun. We had been drying out tables and tables laid with relics that antique roadshow would die for. Old samurai swords, English china, romantic letters, fun 1980's toys, more letters, depressing newspapers from WWII, and funny photos were only a scant few fun finds from the basement. You could charge admission for sure.
I made a move into the barn!! Seriously, childhood dream complete of living with my horses. Basically amazing, and I had to suppress little girly screams when I was officially all moved in. I am one happy lil lady. One of my best friends ever (Ben) came all the way from Utah to lend his muscles in helping me carry boxes of canned food, and helping me relax with a joyous bike ride through Chesterfield Oh, and this great fella from Peru named Juan is back that Chris has had work for her the past few years, thus my stall cleaning days have come to an end, for now. My agenda for the week is ride, ride, ride that pony. Also, I get to go visit Utah for possibly a full week for my birthday ! Happy me! Ah, and I found some great rock today less than five miles from my homestead! So excited to get some climbing in. Ok, all for now, going to practice some guitar :)