First Day Of School

Today was the first day of school for Rose Mary and Rachel here at home. This is like our third year of homeschooling and we are learning more as we go. Rachel and Rose Mary both like their teachers which is good.

Today we canned 25 jars of pickled red beets and that was only half of our red beets. Tomorrow we hope to can the rest and maybe some pickled and some for cooking. Mom hasn't decided yet. Either way we can again tomorrow.

I rode, lunged, and did a bit of groundwork with Navajo this evening. It might seem like a lot but I lunged him before I rode and he did better with me riding him. He didn't run away with me although we did get two good gallops in:) That was awesome. We did canter and trot too. Monday I get shoes on his front two hooves and then we will be able to ride farther on the road and on the field lane too:) We rode a bit on the road to and he did good on there too. After we got back I did some groundwork. I got him to move his hindquarters away from me and also got him to back up. He did good with everything that I did this evening. Way better than sometimes. Well I must go to bed so I can get up tomorrow again. Busy days:)

In a couple of weeks I hope to have my friend over for a sleep over and then one or two more weeks after that I hope to be able to have my cousins here while the rest of the family goes to a show. Don't know if everything will work out but I hope so. We have done this before and my cousins and I have tons of fun. We aren't here all by ourselves since my grandparents live across the driveway, my uncle is in and out all day (he has his business here to and lives about half a mile away) and our neighbor has cattle here so he is in and out morning and evening. Well now off to bed. Have a great weekend:0