A Good Birthday

Tres Amigos

It's been a nice way to celebrate a birthday.  It started at the K-State game last weekend, where I was provided gifts and a homemade pie.  Today, Denny Anderson brought Sugarfoot back from her training trip to Fort Worth.  Whether she's been training Denny or he was training her is still up for discussion, but I hadn't been able to ride after my shoulder surgery and I thought they might be good for each other.  Denny brought his friend Johnny Johnson and Johnny's horse, Tex.  Denny rode Sugar and I rode Cowtown and we toured the big pasture for a couple of hours.  All the horses (and riders) did fine and the guys seemed to enjoy the tour.  We called Mom to come out and take a picture of us but forgot and unsaddled before she got there, so we're posing here with Angelfire.  Then we had lunch of Texas Star smothered steak, another homemade pie and lots of iced tea.  Through the day I've received many online and e-mail birthday wishes.

This evening the pleasant complication of feeding and watering big horses, little horses, cows and calves was a little more complicated by Sugar's presence and I couldn't be happier.  We'll wean calves this weekend and probably start a second round of hay baling thanks to 2.5 inches of rain while we were in Kansas.  Life is good.  Come pitch in, help, and ride a horse.