Winter Wonderland?!

Forget Fall Harvest, we went right to Winter Wonderland. Mother Nature dropped an early snow on us that just caused chaos. We got about 8 inches of very wet snow that took drown trees limbs, knocked out power and closed roads. Fun!! We don't normally get snow in October (sometimes we don't get snow until late December) and a lot of the trees still had leaves so the snow really stuck and weighed everything down. No pics because our cable is out so no TV, house phone or Internet (doing this on my cell). Luckily some sun and temps in the 50s will help to melt everything and crews can get in to clean up. No school for T - too many road closures to get the buses through.

Oh no, SNOW!

The weather forecast is calling for a Nor'easter tomorrow.  Good news - fast moving storm will only last Saturday.  Bad news - our area is on target for 2 to 4 inches of snow.  It is way too early for snow and I'm not ready!!!!  Oh well, maybe I'll have a good photo op....

Dash isn't ready either!

Under the Weather

Seems like I've been sick the entire month of October.  Caught a cold and just when I think it was getting better I started to feel sick again.  BLAH...will catch up on posts as soon as I can.

Please keep Maccabee in your thoughts.  He had colic surgery yesterday and they found 2 impactions.

Wordless Wednesday - Chillin'

Into the Trees

One of my favorite pics from Sunday's trail ride - in the cedar trees

Wordless Wednesday - Golden Light

Sunday Trail Ride

The 4H group scheduled a trail ride for this past Sunday in Green Lane Park.  It ended up being me, T, the club leader and his 2 daughters.  The weather was perfect and it was a good ride.  7.6 miles in 2 hours with all of the horses behaving and the riders having a good time.  Craig followed up the ride with pizza at the trail head.  We definitely need to do more of these rides - it was fun!  There were a lot of riders out enjoying the autumn colors.
I didn't take too many pics - I'm not very coordinated to hold the point and shoot camera while leading the ride and trotting along.

Rooster  & Zip

One of the many fields

In the cedar trees

Macro Monday - Rooster

Sunday Stills - Focusing on the Foreground

This week's Sunday Stills Challenge is Focusing on the Foreground.  This was kind of a hard one for me in that I didn't really have any ideas.  I was walking around the pasture with my camera yesterday trying to get some pics of the horses with the autumn colors and thought this one fit the bill.

Dash & Tiger nibbling on grass

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Opening Ceremony

T did the opening ceremony on Zip for the last gymkhana of the season.  Zip wanted to go, go, go!!

Wordless Wednesday - Making Dust

Last Gymkhana of the Season

Saturday was Buxmont's last gymkhana of the season.  Once again, T and Zip did awesome and finished the night as Grand Champion!  She did a phenomenal job this year and finished as Grand Champion for 5 of the 6 shows and Reserve for the remaining show.  She ended her year in the Junior division as Grand Champion!!!

Duck & Dive

Duck & Dive

Pole Bending

October 1st Buxmont Show

Saturday was show 5 of 6 for Buxmont Riding Club.  We took Rooster and Zip but scratched Rooster after one class.  He wasn't himself and we didn't want to take the chance of an issue.  Zip was a star!!!  T finished as Grand Champion for the night and is still in the lead for year end points.  It was overcast and rainy so no real pics.  Saturday, October 8th is the last show of the season.

Macro Monday - Moss

All of the rain has created a bloom in moss and mushroom.  This is a downed tree covered in moss in Fort Washington State Park.

Sunday Stills - Water Droplets

Every week I look at the Sunday Stills Challenge for the week with the intention of definitely taking pics but life seems to intrude.  But I'm here this week!

This week's Sunday Stills Challenge is Water Droplets.  This one was pretty easy since the only weather we have lately is RAIN.  We've set rainfall records for both August and September, over a foot each month.

Raindrops on a spider web at the barn

Show Day

Off to the barn soon to feed horses and get them ready for today's Buxmont show.  4 shows down, 2 to go to finish the season (the last show is next Saturday).  Hopefully the rain holds off.  We are going to need an ark soon if the rain doesn't let up.