Horse therapy

I rode Sadie with L on Lady on Thursday.    Got off and led Ms Sadie through a nice big shallow mud puddle.   She is so funny.  All scared to step in water but then she starts pawing and playing and is in no hurry to step out.    Later we rode across the irrigation ditch at a point where there was no puddled water in the bottom.   L has really learned and she held Lady up.  Sadie rushed through and up the opposite bank but it was not as dramatic as if Lady had done so and gotten far ahead of her first.   I let Sadie rush rather than start a battle that I might lose over asking her to stop and relax.  

The riding is keeping me sane I think.   My horse board that I get annoyed with but never to the point of quitting it altogether is annoying at the moment.   I should at least only stay on the horse page but then I think I don't want to skip wishing happy b-day and so on so I always go to the general life page and even when I skip the threads some of the titles and intro sentences one can see w/o clicking through annoy me royally.   

Have to go through pics and video for mom's memorial.  I think we will do a picture board and have a dvd with some clips from VHS tapes and some stills that we don't use on the picture board but we haven't mapped things out.   Not sure what to think for memorial in ND.   I don't know that dad finalized it but we are thinking Oct 21 for CO memorial.   Thanksgiving is Nov 22 and with my travel for work the end of Oct and then hunting season the first 2 weekends in Nov + the week between it seems like it would be hard to fit it in before Thanksgiving, but maybe we could just as well do it that weekend or the last weekend in Nov.  

I'll leave that call to dad and sis.   I kind of pushed that we might have to wait till spring but that does become quite a long wait.   Brothers wife offered that maybe they could come out for thanksgiving or xmas.  I don't really care to have them do that, don't need any physical stress on pregnant SIL and,  thinking maybe we could fly there instead.   or Maybe I can plan to do the Death Valley Endurance ride between Xmas and NYD and then we could visit them if I found a place to 'board' the horses for a few days before or after the ride.  Except I don't like to tow in winter.  

Kind of think I should go there and see if I can find a used car to buy for them.   They were leasing and can't afford to continue the lease I guess.    Would not shock me if SIL was one of the Jerry Brown votes that tipped Calif. into full on financial doom so I have to overcome the "well thats what you get" instinct.  I have not really talked to her about politics/philosophy just seems like she is probably socialist christian type.