Circus Flora

The crew continues East! Currently leaving lovely St. Louis. We stayed at Chris's friend Laura's Three Creek Farm. Talk about the antithesis to Knox Farm! Not in a bad way, but seeing at Laura and her husband run this amazing traveling show called Circus Flora, the farm was settled over 200 years ago, and they have a menagerie of animals including peacocks, a Bassett hound pack, goats, and Connemara ponies... There is just a lot of STUFF around. Not quite how Chris runs her place :) Three Creek Farm really has oodles of character, to say the least.
We played with the Bassett puppies for a much too short of time period. I didn't even know people hunted with PACKS of Bassets, what?!
She has a chicken that plays the piano in the circus that lives in her office. Anyone who knows me understands that this could pretty much be my dream home.
Anyway, so far so good! Knock on wood. Should be in Lexington by this evening yay!

Wonderland Continued

Wow! Only 1 week until we head cross country to our Kentucky adventure. But, that will be another blog for another day.
Currently, things are just going swimmingly on all fronts of my life.
Horses: to be discussed first because they are most consuming and all important. A few weeks ago I went to my FIRST dressage show, if you can believe it. Besides all the little events /!; dressage rally at Pony Club, I have never really ridden in a dressage how. How embarrassing, yes. If I ever become a total Dressage Queen, I am going to pretend I didn't know anything until now, ha! Either way, Bindi was a STAR and got a first and a second place in two different tests. We only it second because she decided a puttering moped going down the road behind her warranted a canter/leap/fling across the diagonal rather than a trot. Oh well, she was awesome! I also got to ride the driving pony Aly in Training test 3, and First Level test 1. We got two firsts and the highest score of the show. Not bad for my first show eh? But seriously, I watched my videos with Chris and wooooooaah nelly bell, I have got a lot of work ahead of me this winter. Also, it is about time to sell the Bindles, so pictures and videos are in the works, coming soon.
Uhhhh, what other fronts are there to my life again?
I DO have a great friend who is willing to drive a truck and trailer to Utah this weekend to pick up my little guy Gilbert. Dad is saying, "I am really going to miss this horse. I even want to hug him! Is this how you feel about your horses?" Yes Dad, that is a tiny taste of the disease I have been struck with since birth. Wanting to hug horse.
Winter is quickly approaching and with it means lots of prep for the snowed in period of the year. We had a big gathering of folks and closed the townsite for the winter. That means putting away items that can freeze or be eaten by critters, and boarding up the widows. And of course, a mountain of scones was prepared along with at least ten crock pots of different soups. Yes, we do things right around here. The pictures of the embroidery are from a quilt that is over a hundred years old! Totally fashionable though and could be sold in Anthropologie I am sure (for hundreds of dollars).
The people out here are really just incredible, incredibly funny, and really just funny. Oh! I have a friend who has been teaching me how to fly fish! Totally. Awesome. We caught a big beautiful rainbow trout the other night and cooked it up with lemons, butter, and peppers. Amazing. Loving life yet again and can't wait to see the fam this weekend!

My New Kentucky Home

And we are off! Once again it is like a large army is on a high tech cavalry caravan. Pretty much the same routine as getting ready for the other shows, 14 hour days leading up to it are no big deal. We did add some extra work by deciding to body clip all four ponies. Lots of prickly hairs down the shirt, and many peach fuzz feeling ponies were the result.
Tonight we stay in Nebraska. How joyful that should be. I am pretty excited though as this will be my first cross the country trek. Next time, it will be with my dog and climbing gear.
But I did make it to Utah this last w week to get my boy Gilbert!! Thanks to my incredibly helpful, up for a road trip friend Brett who also supplies the truck and trailer. Forever grateful! It was pretty dang great to have some of mom and dads Sunday dinner. Gilbert was a perfect, sane, lovely gentlemen and loaded within 5 minutes. It is a whole new world working with a horse that hasn't been ruined, let me tell you. So he got in and out a few times and then we were on our way. He is so happy at Knox Farm and I am so thankful I have an awesome job where I can have my horses with me.
Updates will be many as we drive for the next three days and I have nothing else to do. Yay!
Oh and apparently I can't use technology and thought I published a post last week. Alas, now I have two today. Silly.