Hi everyone...
Good to "see" you all again. Long story short, its been a LONNNNNG 3.5 months.
In September, my good friend and riding buddy died from a freak horse accident.

We had logged 30 miles that week, and it was her(our) day off.
Won't bore you with many details, but apparently she had been grazing her mare at her neighbors, less than 50 yards from her barn, she jumped on her bareback(she did often) to go home, but this time, something spooked them. What? We'll never know. The mare leapt the embankment, she went flying, and crashed onto the pavement. In an instant, she was gone.
It puzzles me. I wasn't with her, like I said, it was our day off. How? why? she held on for soo long and didn't bail is the question that goes unanswered. The only witness(of the "End") was the driver of a car, who saw them leap onto the road. Miraculously, traffic was lite that day(otherwise normally busy road).
Its been hard. I've not ridden since, mostly because of our fall travel schedule, and stucco'ing our previously wood sided home. I'm thankful for the distractions, but this month's calender had a bunch of "dates" we<she and I> had planned..
Sorry to go on, this is pretty short compared to a newsletter article I just finished for our choir, so...thats the scoop.
Not really have gotten to know alot of you, and there are many new "faces" , since my last post. I missed coming here(oh yeah, my computer had its own set of problems that NOW, in exchange for some Christmas photos, I had my geek friend come fix!
Hope everyone is well! Good to be back!
(photo used with permission from her family- can you believe, I didn't have any??)