The Holidays Already??!!

Wow, I can't believe next weekend it is Thanksgiving, it feels as though last week it was July 4th. Time flies I suppose.

I've been busy, but honestly I can't tell you just what I've been doing. Two mornings a week I work at the barn with Igor tagging along chattering behind me and generally being a menace to the barn cats. Igor is loosing his fear of horses and will touch them on the nose when he is held. I don't want him to loose too much fear however or I might look up and find him in the pasture under hooves. So far the horses are turned out when we are there, with the exception of two stallions, but they are kept in an area of the barn I do not work in, and they seem to be gentle souls regardless of their frisky reputations.

I had my first and second riding lessons this last week as well. The trainer put me on a Tennessee Walker. It was the first time I have ever ridden a gaited horse - if you don't know the difference google it, as it's hard to explain. Anyhow it was a different experience and not really what I thought I was getting, nothing like the training I had before, however it IS a totally different style of riding, the horse is trained differently, and adjusting to the rolling gait is a bit unusual. The barn is a MUCH bigger establishment than the one I worked at before and has some very nice facilities, but they also have practices that would send my old trainer through the roof like not cleaning tack after it is used which was a pet peeve of hers.

Igor's new glasses came in this week. Though they are a much stronger prescription the lenses are a lot thinner as the new vision insurance would pay at least a percentage for the thinner lens. He also got new frames with cable temples that actually keep the glasses up on his face correctly instead of sliding down his nose like a little old man. While researching the vision insurance I got myself and Sonny Boy in as well to see the eye doc. Sonny Boy has an eagle eye where it appears my peepers are going further downhill and need a small adjustment to my Rx. Since the insurance will pay for a new pair of glasses I will go ahead and get them. I am a bit concerned as it seems the new trend is larger frames again and I'm not so sure about that.

Sonny Boy is being his usual run and go self. He's been a little mad the last few weeks as he hasn't gotten to go out to the barn while I work, and feels left out of all the fun that shoveling poop is. He did get invited to a birthday party at McD's and had fun there as most of his classmates attended.

Hubby finished the last of the drywall mess this afternoon. All we need now is a shelf/rod and we can hang some clothes up! I'll worry about paint later as I don't intend to paint the interior of the closet anyway. Yay, no more boxes in my bedroom!

My mother will be coming up for the holiday. I don't know if we'll do anything. Hubby's employer gave him a turkey so we'll cook that but only because it's here. I wasn't planning on a big meal and one of us will end up eating at a TV tray anyway as our table only seats 4 people (our dining room set is still in the other house, there is not room for it here) If the weather holds we might go into town as Mom has always wanted to see the St. Louis Zoo and that's a cheap enough day - it's free believe it or not. Personally I'm anxious to see the black Friday ads and see if there are some good deals for X-mas gifts for the kids. Sonny Boy is begging for a DS, Igor just wants trucks! I just want Christmas over, do you think the kids would notice if we skipped it?