Time Flies

     Where did the last week go?  The day after my last blog, I drove to Sacramento to pick up my niece, Sally, for a 10-day visit from Florida.  Sally's had riding lessons at home, and has really been looking forward to doing lots of riding while she was here.  I managed to clear our schedule so we had time for riding every day.
     It has rained the whole week.  We've had an extremely mild winter so far, with very little rain, but Sally has come and the weather is making up for lost time.  I'm not talking about some light showers.  Try winds up to 60 miles per hour, thunder and lightning, and periods of torrential downpour.  The creek out back is raging.  At least Kaela and Sally have had fun taking videos of this unusual presence of water and making boats to float through its rapids.  They even tried riding bikes through it, resulting in a dislocated bike chain, two hot showers and a full wash load of muddy clothes.  Next, they tried out the footing in the arena, hoping to get in some riding in spite of the rain.  I looked up from my desk early this morning and spied them out there, galloping around the barrels and going over jumps on foot, pretending to be horses.  When they returned to the house, however, Kaela's assessment was that the arena was "too slushy" for real horses.  Darn.
     Since outdoor activities have been thwarted, they've been doing lots of--you guessed it--eating (see previous blog).  I returned from a meeting at 9:30 p.m. last night to find them microwaving a pound of bacon.  Odd what boredom will make you do sometimes.
     March has turned out to be a month full of visitors, so blogging will probably continue to be sporadic.  Sally leaves next week but Jenny arrives 3 days later, and the day Jenny leaves, Jaime arrives with my 3 wonderful grandkids.  I know we need the rain, and I really do love it, but I hope it quits soon.