Holy storm!

Ok, so about 3 a.m. it was pretty damn scary! Wind, lighting, thunder, crashing rain! I was not able to get back to sleep so I had to read part of midnight sun! Finally when it settled I could sleep again.

We show up at Parelli at about 9:40 a.m. Oh my gosh!!! There are like 8 trees down! So I give Blue her breakfast and I put on my riding gloves to help drag tree branches. We worked with all the Parelli faculty and externs and more volunteers. Crazy how the trees roots are so shallow, it's like I coulda pushed them over!!! And a lot of them were hollow! But super tall trees at that. It's pretty sad to see a lot of them gone :( I guess it's time to start planting some! It was perfect before the storm, if they get another storm it's going to start looking empty :( At about 12 there wasn't much more to be done without the big machines, so then I took Blue out.

Blue I had had a blast. She took me around and did all her things that she knew would get her some grain. She's a total one trick pony! Once she gets it, she wants to do it over, and over, and over again! She understood I wanted 4 feet in the water, so that's what I got, 4 feet and then she'd turn and come back out and get grain. She did this about 15 times! Then she took me to the carwash and went through it at liberty about 30 times! Grab a cookie and turn around and do it again. She is so stinking funny!
I also took her up on the hill for a workout. we did traveling circles at the trot and canter. It's funny, the more she canter the more uncomfortable she gets. If I don't have her check in then she starts getting worried. But we worked through it and she blew out and was my little Blue Bug again. She really doesn't enjoy getting worked up! And the girl is hard to get sweaty!
This week we get to ride :)::):):):):) Woohoo, now we can really canter all over the place :):):):):):) Woohoo, less running for me!!

Anyway, it was a super nice day and I think I got a wee bit sunburnt.
Dustin called and said he made it safe back to Korea, so I'm happy about that. Not that he's in Korea, but that he's safe :)