Been A While

Sheesh, it's already been 9 days since my last post... Apologies to my hordes of readers ( ;-D ) - I do have a good excuse though. These last couple of weeks have been truly rough ones. It seems like my whole extended family is having serious health problems, for one thing. We are also helping a couple different friends who are planning to move to other states in the next month or so, and I really don't like saying goodbye to people!!! I don't want to vent all over you guys, so I won't go on and on, but one last thing - there are a couple people in my life doing the passive agressive thing lately. Yikes!


"God, please don't ever let me do that to anyone!" I do not want to put people through that kind of stress ever...



There. Rant over. :-) I am grateful for all the good things going on too, though, and there are many. Like getting to reconnect with a good friend I don't see all that often, and spending a good long afternoon with her. Like the new Todd Agnew "Better Questions" CD coming out! (I am expecting it in the mail any day, but I've heard several songs online and LOVE them - of course!) Click the link and you can hear them. I would recommend you listen to "Our Great God" first, and then "Martyr's Song." The CD "Better Questions" is about the questions we all have for God, that we often aren't quite sure how to express. Or, we feel like it is not "allowed" to ask them in church, because they're too "messy" of questions. Lots of good messages in these 16 songs...

Oh, also! I want to start teaching Mira how to do a "salute!" Any suggestions would be welcome - I do have a good book on trick training, and I am somewhat familiar with clicker training, but I've never tried something like this with a horse before. What I want is for her to lift one of her front legs on my cue, hold it up, and bring her nose down toward it, similar to this type of equestrian statue pose.

This is just a completely frivolous thing that I think would be fun to work on with her, and I really believe she would love having something like that in her repertoire to wow people with! (She adores any chance she has to show off) At one time I wanted to teach her to bow, but realized that probably wouldn't be fair on her old joints, so I want to try this instead. What do you all think?

L