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!