My dad is in the hospital- to start out- so excuse me for not writing lately. I haven’t particularly been in the mood because I’m worried about him. If everyone could wish the best for him then that would be awesome.

I did want to write a little something though. I went out trail riding with Julie, her husband and some of her friends the other day. I did this with a sprained ankle mind you, because I’m dumb and don’t understand what the word “rest” means. Lol. The trail ride was fun… god the florida heat is so humid. Sickly humid. I ate and drank lots of water before I went but I was literally dying by the time we were done. Not to mention Fancy worked herself up into a sweat about an hour in. She was being a tad bit bratty though.

*click to make them bigger*

It was alot of fun because I haven’t went trail riding in forever, and it’s hard to find people who trail ride without riding western, because I don’t like western all that much. There were a few awfully cute turtles along the way, alone with some weird looking bugs that had 5 inch long wings and thoraxes. Extremely scary. Aside from that, and the heat trying to kill me, it was extremely pleasant.

For the 4th of July we had some friends from Miami stay with us. It was really fun. We spent the weekend relaxing, hanging out and celebrating. We went down to city walk and wandered to the Hard Rock Cafe to see the fireworks. They were beaaaautiful.. yet short, because we failed to get there on time. We went on a mission/adventure for fireworks, and we even had our own (Which chris proceeded to abruptly light and toss out the car window at any given time) that we were dying to play with. After toiling through the busy and jam packed drive-in parking garage (not that there’s any other way to get into a parking garage except driving) we just got the the little river thing in time to see about 5 minutes of fireworks. The journey and the dinner beforehand were fun, so I guess that’s all that matters.

Then we met some people who were visiting from Ireland. They were fun to drink and hang out with until the girl decided to book it and be a weirdo, leaving her boyfriend behind. Therefore he took off after her, and we never got a chance to get their numbers for the glorious beach/surfing trip we attempted to plan the next morning. Oh well. After we got home, we proceeded to jump the gate to the pool, where I sprained my ankle. Funny though, I didn’t feel the effects until a week later… and it took that long to swell. It’s better now though.

And on another note, my cute little subjects, the ducks, were shot again. This time I managed to get the babies as grown ups. If you saw my last set of pictures, there were some little itty bitty cute and fluffy ducklings following their mom. Now they’re grown up and ADORABLE! All the pictures are in my flickr, and I was kind of too lazy to edit any of them except three… but here’s a taste of them.

Click the one below, it’s really big and pretty but I have a feeling wordpress is gonna chop off the side of it. If you click it (or any of the pictures for that matter) they’ll open in a new window.

ANNNND in this one below, it looked like one duck is attempting to kill the other via beak, but they’re really just pruning eachother.

aaand I’ll throw in one more. LOOK! CUTENESS PADDLING IN THE WATER!

Enjoy :) and wish the best for my dad please.

so I just wanted to throw this picture on in case you don’t want to stare at my flickr to see it. It’s a picture I took of Dixie.. I edited it in photoshop for a few things then enhanced her eye color. I LOVE HER EYES!!!! Anyway, enjoy. Do not steal. I have my copyright on it :) … not that anyone would want to steal it anyway… haha.

There’s a fundraiser going on for a group that I’m a part of, to raise money to prevent horse slaughter, cruelty, and just to promote the well being and research to keep horses healthy and protected.

They were able to get a hold of a professional tarot card reader who will conduct readings and donate everything towards the horse fund. It’s a more entertaining and interesting way to raise money than just the regular ways. You can get a 250-300 word email reading, or a 25 minutes phone conversation. The email is $25.00 and the phone session is $50.00. Like any tarot reading, this is purely entertainment, BUT keep in mind she IS a professional, so if you believe in tarot card readings for direction, then you will be getting a glorious and serious one. Please donate! The link is here to sign up.

http://fund4horses.org/info.php?id=1054

I went out to ride yesterday after slaving on my essay for a few hours. I’m a little hesitant to ride Fancy hard because I know she’s in pain, so what I did was just hop on bareback and ride around working on her headset. Boy was THAT different, I haven’t ridden bareback in years! I used to ride my horse bareback all the time, I LOVED it (that’s one of the joys of owning your own horse) and I forgot how slippery it was. I must say though that Fancy is really nice to ride bareback. Her gaits are a little flat (which is NOT ideal, but it worked out in my favor) so I just trotted and cantered her around for a bit. I think I’m gonna ask Julie if I can ride Dixie today. In a few months I have to try out for the Equestrian team and I need to start practicing ASAP. Plus, Dixie is just amazing. Anyway, I know this wasn’t the most thrilling post on earth (and probably torture for you non-horse people) but I’ll come up with something a little later. I did want to write about the earthquake again, and stupid Hillary Clinton’s ego. I have a few thoughts on women’s rights… you’ll see. BYE! :)

I got bored and started editing some of my pics from yesterday. They’re pretty much just for fun because my eyes are glazing over from messing with photoshop so much today. You have to click the pictures once, let it load, then click the second picture to get the huge version of it. It has more impact when it’s bigger. trust me.

So, I had shane come out yesterday and he took a video of my jumping, so I can finally see what the heck Fancy is doing and why she’s dragging her feet over the jumps. After watching the video I have come to the conclusion that she is just being lazy because she knows that she can get away with it. Julie and I came up with a solution. Tomorrow when I go out to ride, I’m just going to set up some 18 inch-2 feet jumps and trot (instead of canter) her up to them so she HAS to pick up her feet and actually put some force and purpose into her jumps. She had said that Fancy has jumped that high before but last time she did, she had fallen. Hopefully this time she doesn’t. I’ve jumped higher before but I’ve been trying to take it slow with Fancy because I figure that until she can jump the small ones she shouldn’t be put over the higher ones. But I’m throwing that plan out the window and have situated a new plan of attack. bahahaha. You can be sure that I’ll be posting something on here about it. I want to try to record again but Shane will be in class so I might have to mount the video recorder in a tree or something. Haha. My flickr has some pictures on it from yesterday, and I might upload a video but I’m not sure. I’ll wait to see how many views this post gets first. I’m off to relax with the boy now. bye bye.