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    Christine


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    About Me Love horses obviously, want to pursue Eventing, enjoy photography, painting, and spending time with my husband and pets
    Music Classic Rock, Led Zepplin, U2, Pink Floyd... you get the idea. Not so much on the new stuff but recently listened to Amy Winehouse, Coldplay & a few others
    Movies Original Star Wars Trilogy, LOTR Trilogy, Princess Bride
    TV not too much, laughing over Two & Half Men recently. Love MASH reruns & Jimmy Neutron
    Books LOTR, James Herriot, D*ck Francis ... hee hee it won't let me put the full name! Anyway he's an ex-jump jockey turned mystery writer :)
    Likes peace, quiet, time with family, horses, my pets & friends.. working in my gardens
    Dislikes DRAMA & abusive people
    Hobbies riding, painting, photography, veggie gardening and flower gardening... also currently attempting a butterfly garden and a bird garden
    Vices chocolate
    Virtues honesty, loyalty
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    members.horsecity.com/mithrilmaid

    Of ponies, tile and dragons......

    Friday, September 19, 2008, 03:28 PM [General]

    Well, it's been quiet....

    Wow. that is irritating! Does that happen to anybody else? Every time I hit the ENTER key, the whole screen shifts back to the top. Very irritating!

    Anyway, *it did it again!* lol... Not much going on. Been getting back in the swing of working full time. And trying to remember all the stuff I learned about Tile! Gads, there's tons of stuff I know just can't recall! Thank goodness I have time during the day to read up and do some research on the supplier sites!

    So the other thing I've gotten hooked on is this great site called Dragon Cave. You adopt/steal dragon eggs and by getting other people to visit your Scroll you help the eggs hatch and then grow into mature adult Dragons. It's a bit nuts I know.. but totally addictive! Like, it's killing me that I don't have internet at home right now so I end up going the whole weekend without checking on my eggs/hatchlings to see how they are doing! *shakes head* But anyway here is my scroll you can check out if you want! Click Cave to go to the entrance of the Cave and be able to Register and Get Your Own!

     

    Mithril Maid's Dragons

    SO on the Horse side of things... Cheyenne has improved greatly. The abscess is gone and the infection too. Now we are working on rehabbing the tendon so it doesn't contract. She is doing great with this and I have vet permission to ride her again. Rehab tack walks. FUN. *sarcasm* But I dont ride her too much since she's basically retired. I just make sure she gets walked everyday. And she's on 24hr turnout so no worries about stall stuff. :D

    Was starting to get back in the game with Cat and then she lost a shoe and I couldn't get in touch with my farrier for three days! GRRRR >:( But now the shoe is on so I"M GONNA RIDE TONIGHT! WHOOOHOOOOO!

    So that is pretty much all that has been going on with me.

    Thanks to anybody who bothers to read this!

     

    *waves bye*

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    Update

    Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 10:35 AM [General]

    Well I haven't been on here in a loooooong time! A lot has happened.

    Let's see... okay, so I own The Cat. YAY! And almost immediately she gets a month off work!

    Frustrating. But on the plus side, I now have a new job!

    The tile company that I used to work for has opened a store in my home town! And I'm the manager! WOOOHOOOO!! I'm a bit freaked out since I've not really done this sort of thing before but so far all is going well.

    We've been open two full weeks officially. I've been working here at the store for three or four weeks. There have been a couple installers from the main store here putting tile on the showroom floor and taking down a few walls that were in the way. I'll have to get some pictures up at some point!   Basically we have all these mini-squares of tile samples, designs and patterns sort of scattered all over the floor and then that will be surrounded by a neutral field tile. It will look like a tile floor with persian rugs scattered all over it. The people who have come in the store are really amazed at the transformation from a lawnmower dealer/service store to a beautiful showroom. And we're not even finished with it all yet!

    So back to horse stuff. I did ride the Cat this past weekend. Even with the time off she remembered most of what we were working on. Which is good. She's had so many start/stops in her training I was worried she would revert and I would have to start all over from scratch. It's frustrating to work with her sometimes because she tries to be too smart. She'll decide that I am asking her something and go with that and then we sort of get into a battle of wills. Me patiently asking the same thing again until she decides that , OH I GET IT! and then we can move on! lol

    She really tries hard but with so many start/stop issues in her training I'm still trying to figure out where her head is and just what she knows.

    I sort of have a goal to go to a schooling Horse Trial the end of October and do the Hopeful level... We'll see how she progresses by the time of the opening/closing dates for registration.

    Well I need to get back to work I guess! Happy trails!

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    Man, I can't wait for our "summer" to kick in. Unfortunately, we wont get any really good, consistent weather until late July or August. The sun's out here, at least, but that cold wind blowing off the ocean is freezing me to the bone! And trying to ride in it? Yeeesh.

    Jessi
    June 11, 2008
    03:30 PM CST

    Don't get too jealous of me and the beach! LOL. First off, it was freezing! And second, you can't ride too long inthe sand unless your horse is used to it, or in good shape. So our rides are pretty short! Which is good, otherwise we'd be popsicles! LOL

    Jessi
    June 05, 2008
    11:21 PM CST

    LOL. That's OK! I'll probably be the same age as your sister before I'll be able to get back to English riding again. I miss it a lot. I also recently heard the top English trainer in my parts is moving. Bummer!

    Jessi
    May 30, 2008
    03:20 PM CST

    Great photos. How old is your sister? Has she been riding long?

    Jessi
    May 20, 2008
    08:49 PM CST