Mon. Misc.

I'm back after another week of constant rain. 13 of 25 days of rain as of 9/25 in Sept. and 12 inches of water or more, certainly an all time monthly record since I've been at this farm since 1993 in the last three weeks. When we think weather is unable to get worse it does.

At any rate, when the farm is a lake for weeks at a time this dampens the enthusiasm as well as the training, and hence the awol of the blog last week. Somebody asked me who is the gentleman in the photo last post. This is the governor of Nevada who was hospitalized after falling off a horse last week. Reportedly breaking a two year old.

We've been without training since Monday. It looks like we now have a break from rain coming and we started up again last night.

Training:

Sun. 9/26. Numerous problems including a horse escape and lost shoe keeps us from starting till it's nearly dark. Passed on tack work. Horses surprised me with a spirited effort in brisk weather. We just let them go on their own: riderless 4 x 2f very snappy + the warm up and warm down.