Margaret's last chance to post this week - The Orange County Horse Show Association Year-End Championship, Oct. 15-19, is the biggest show event of her barn's season. Twenty-two horses have already been shipped to the showgrounds. Twenty-one riders will be readied for a number of classes each over the five day, three ring, horse show. For two of Margaret's littlest "pony girls" it's their first time showing away from home so nerves will be on edge, the kids and their parents! It's a long, hard, but always gratifying week for everyone involved.
Fall started a little rocky on the health front, but the news is all good now. Margaret's throat infection has passed and she's feeling much better. Larry has completed four weeks of physical therapy for a pinched nerve in his neck and has felt great improvement. Another month's worth of PT has been prescribed, which we hope will bring improvement in the carpel tunnel diagnosed in his right wrist as well.
The fires blazing in LA County are far away from our home, but as the Santa Ana winds gusted in our area yesterday, we could certainly see the grey haze in the air and smell the smoke. (The Santa Anas somehow find their way into our stove-top vent causing light grey dust and ash to fall on our black glass cooktop!) Early this morning we swept away the debris that the high winds had dropped in our patio, hosed the soot off the plants and soaked the parched ground. We are grateful that Orange County has been, so far, spared the devastation that our northern neighbors are experiencing.
Look for new posts next week. Maybe by then we'll have decided when we can take our long-awaited, three time postponed (!) getaway to Central California.
Fall started a little rocky on the health front, but the news is all good now. Margaret's throat infection has passed and she's feeling much better. Larry has completed four weeks of physical therapy for a pinched nerve in his neck and has felt great improvement. Another month's worth of PT has been prescribed, which we hope will bring improvement in the carpel tunnel diagnosed in his right wrist as well.
The fires blazing in LA County are far away from our home, but as the Santa Ana winds gusted in our area yesterday, we could certainly see the grey haze in the air and smell the smoke. (The Santa Anas somehow find their way into our stove-top vent causing light grey dust and ash to fall on our black glass cooktop!) Early this morning we swept away the debris that the high winds had dropped in our patio, hosed the soot off the plants and soaked the parched ground. We are grateful that Orange County has been, so far, spared the devastation that our northern neighbors are experiencing.
Look for new posts next week. Maybe by then we'll have decided when we can take our long-awaited, three time postponed (!) getaway to Central California.
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