Hope your holidays were wonderful

Hello everyone,
Okay, so we need to revise and call this a periodic blog, not a daily blog and I need to make the posts shorter, so that I'm more likely to blog more often. Just wanted to take a minute before tax season hits and after the holidays to say I hope you all had seriously great holidays. Ours was very nice. We had dinner with friends we've known for nearly twenty years and everyone made it into town and back out again without incident. The weather was glorious. Since then? Rain, rain and more rain. We are going to have that glorious spring that the earlier rains promised and now will come for sure. I'll take and share a picture with you soon. Even as I speak er blog, the mountaintops are socked in with clouds. There was this serious rainbow three days ago. The colors were nearly neon as the sun slanted through near sunset to our place where it was just pouring. Wow!

We got to ride Saturday and the horses were just high on life, they wanted to see (and smell) everything and talk to everyone. Their feet barely touched the ground--made for a very interesting ride. Me to husband, "Watch out for that hole." Husband, "What hole?" Me, "Never mind, it's way back there now."

I remember a couple of years after we moved here and friends gave us a marvel of a horse named Star. My son claimed her, so we three were out riding. I suggested we stay on hard pack road, but my husband is an adventurer. He and his horse danced their way over to the arroya (his horse doesn't know how to walk) and ours walked and then SUNK TO THEIR CHESTS. Their feet were literally underground. They started struggling. So what do I order them both to do? STAND. Now, you could see by their faces that they thought that was pretty dumb, but being really nice horses, they stayed quiet while son Martin and I got off. Then we stood back and said, "Giddup." They obligingly floundered like hogs in a wallow until they could get a grip and got up. We very carefully walked them to the stream bed where there were large rocks assuring us there were no sinking spots and got back on, took deep breaths and nearly laughed until we cried. So, folks, mind your footing, make sure you're on solid ground, and go forward for a great year. See you next time. (I know there's a book in there somewhere).