Despite being at a show - I really enjoyed my birthday
as you can tell from the way I'm searching round the back of the car for pressies!
Every year I have a birthday and yes I know so does everyone but every year I get to spend mine at the Summer Classic Showjumping! I was always a little disappointed to have my birthday at a horse show until this year (well last year now) where I was extraordinarily spoilt. Word had gotten around it was my birthday so everywhere I turned I was getting Happy Birthday wishes. I got presents, the horses all jumped well and I even had Happy Birthday sung to me around a cake being sheltered from the heat in the boot of a car. Alongside a beautiful bunch of flowers delivered embarrassingly to the office (thanks Dave) and a none other than Miley card from my dear friend Kerry.
My flowers and card
And so that was Birthday, Christmas, New Year and the first week of January… All gone! The New Year hangs over us like a giant Piñata that might need to be belted around in the early stages before we can get to all the candy. Hopefully it wont be one of those Piñata’s that after all that energy exhausted you find is full of Carob or the Barley sugar that you used to eat when pretending not to eat on 40 hour famine. But enough about candy, clearly the last month that has revolved around eating, presents (and yes can you believe it more weddings) has got me a little one tracked in the thought department!
The summer holidays, or so they were meant to be, turned out a little more like the working holiday that you wish your normal life could be like – ha ha. Dave and I spent the weeks after Summer Classic finished in December having mini sleep in’s, teaching some lessons to the ultra keen hot weather riders and doing a property blitz to set ourselves in good stead for the year. We spent Christmas at home, played with our new foals and did a fair few laps in the buggy feeding horses. January has us looking into a month of clinics and the large task of getting all the ponies back in order. Looking forward to what 2014 has to offer!!
Playing with the foals
A short but heartfelt thanks to all our clients, our sponsors and our incredible grooms and staff. To friends, family and supporters and of course to our amazing horses without which none of this would be possible – thank you!
Wish me luck - Tal
