The Fun Continues

Now that I've returned home a bit of a catch up here.  I went out

to the country to isolate and have some quiet time, time to 

read and do what must be done to prepare myself for the

block week course I have coming up starting on Sept. 2. I ask,

where did summer go?  

I started out staying with a friend, the one who has the gorgeous 

horse, but this horse has been limping a bit so I got to meet

one of my second cousins who is a farrier. I've chatted with this

cousin via facebook, but never met him til now.

Handsome young man who knows his horses! 

Then it was off to a family pig roast, what an awesome time

seeing family I haven't seen in eons. 

There was something for kids of all ages... 

as you can see from the top right photo my inner 

child even came out to play!  Yup, it's been an awesome

week, good people, good food, tons of fun and I even

managed to knock off about 3/4 of my readings. 

Cariwest Parade

Last Saturday it was the Cariwest Parade, I love going to this

event as it's so vibrant and colorful.  You'll see what I mean 

through the photos I choose to share...

I am guessing this is Miss Cariwest of this year, she's

absolutely gorgeous! 

There was plenty of dancers and lively music. 

Plenty of pretty ladies...

Young and the young at heart...

Hmmm I have about 50 photos I've kept, too

bad I try to limit myself here to only a few, ah what 

the heck, here's a few more. 

I'm having a real tough time stopping myself 

from adding more, as I mentioned there was so 

much energy, I LOVED it! 

And one final photo...

this is exactly how I felt when I rushed back to my car

only to find the meter man leaving a $50 parking ticket

on my car and there was no way he was going to

let me talk him out of it. 

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend, 

my bags are packed and I'm leaving 

town... again! :-)

Life is busy, in a positive way

Now that my final practicum is complete, actually the day I finished 

I came home, loaded up and hit the highway. I was off to the rodeo, literally! 

I went back to my old home town, about a 4 hour drive and 

made it in time for the rodeo dance and what a good time that was. 

The following day I went to the actual rodeo and watched...

here I'll show you some of what I watched.

I took tons of photos, watched it all, went on a

few rides and had another wonderful day. 

Some real good lookin' cowboys ladies! :-)

The following day I went to visit my Mom and Dad at the

cemetery, it was 12 years to the date my Mother passed.

Afterwards I returned to the old home quarter and did a

photo shoot, some "selfies".

I got home in time to do a load of laundry, have a shower,

make a quick pasta salad for a pig roast and I hit the 

highway once again. This time the drive was only about

an hour and a half and I was off to a 3 day party. One of the 

highlights of this event... I was the photographer and look at

what I managed to shoot!

I had an amazing weekend; fantastic people, amazing food and Harley heaven! 

And tonight is my final class of the practicum and

then I'm free to roam about the countryside at my 

leisure for a few weeks before I hit the books for

one final round... 3 more courses and that's it! I'm 

3 courses away from landing that job which will

allow me to buy my bike, if I so choose to! 

I hope you're all loving what you do

and doing what you love. Cheers.