More on the Lake Oswego Dressage Event

This isn't Thing 2 either.... BUT.... Thing 2 took 2nd place in the first two rides and FIRST in the 3rd ride of the day!
I'm not about the placing. In fact, I would be boasting about her with whatever her score turned out to be. It just happens to be that she's wonderful.
Tomorrow, I'll include actual pictures of the wonderful Thing 2 and her ribbons... and her horse.
Good night everyone,
~ch

Thing 2

(this isn't Thing 2, but this is what she looks like on a horse)

Today my daughter (AKA Thing 2) is riding in a dressage competition at the Lake Oswego Hunt Club. Today's competition is only a practise for tomorrows recognized event. She requested that her dad and I not come up for both days, but just come to the Sunday show.

So far today, she's called me twice. The first time was right after the first ride where she said "I started out good and only got better!" She was very excited.

The second call was after her second ride and after all of the riders scores were posted. She said she place 2nd (!!) on the first ride and though she didn't feel that she did as well on the second, she placed 2nd again (!!!) She has one more ride to compete in today. I love it when she's happy.

I'm looking forward to going up there tomorrow and watching in person!

~ch

My Summer and Golf

This is the first installment to answering Boggywoggy's list of things I'm into.

This summer, I decided to take a Corvallis Parks and Recreation course in golf. I was very excited, because I thought, if I liked it, it would be a good way for me to get in exercise. I don't like to exercise to exercise. I like to have competition and a goal.

I've strayed...

Back to the P&R class. We met for 5 days for almost an hour. We practised hitting with different clubs etc. But on the last day, I was sad because we never got to play a game. I asked our teacher if we could play and he said "no." He also explained that Trysting Tree is really set up for men and that I would find it too stressful. All this did was piss me off. So, I called Marysville Golf Club and talked with one of the owners who invited me to join the Marysville Ladies Club. The idea scared the crud out of me, but I did it anyway. I'm so glad I did it. The ladies are wonderful, I'm getting better with my game, plus I'm getting a wee bit of exercise!

I'm planning on playing at Trysting Tree sometime before school begins. I think I can handle the stress...sheeesh.

I'm a bit sad that the season is coming to an end. I hope to be able to keep working on getting better for next summer.

Just one more thing to add to my list of nerdy things I like.

~ch

Keeping my Mouth Shut.

I am a parent of two great kids. Thing 1 is my experiment kid. I seem to do everything wrong on him and learn for Thing 2. Anyway, Thing 2 had great advise for me last evening. She said, "mom, no offense, but we've been hearing you and dad talk at us all our lives." "Sometimes, we don't want to hear you." "I think you should watch and listen and see what happens."

I'm trying.

ch

No Word on NW Corvallis Power Outage...

The Corvallis Gazette-Times doesn't have an article, nor did I hear anything on the radio... so what's up? Last night around 8pm, our family was eating on the back patio and my daughter looked up and said "hey, is the power out again?" Sure enough... Lights didn't come back on until 1:30am. Maybe I just missed hearing it on the news, or our area is just not news worthy.

So, whadya think? Will Corvallis see it's own baby boom?

~ch