Show season pictures

     So I'm very behind on my posting....Molly has had a great year of showing so far.  The first show weekend was October 8th and 9th in Vermont.  The team stayed in Burlington at the Holiday Inn and had a great time.  The show on Saturday was at Middlebury, Molly got a 5th, the show on Sunday was at UVM and she placed 1st!
     The following weekend show was at Dartmouth.  I believe she got a 4th again.  Rode an awesome ride on a huge black horse.  The neat thing is that they just draw names of the horses they will ride...so you never know what you will get.
     The next weekend was their home show at Colby Sawyer.  Molly placed 1st again!  Another great ride. Sundays show was at UNH and she placed 4th.  Her horse took the wrong lead, but she knew it and made the correction.

Molly's teammate Krislyn

I think this was the team captain Meridith.

another teammate.

Chrislyn

Lucy, one of the horses owned by a doctor that I work with.

The coach Pam and some teammates.

Molly and Hahn ?sp.  student from Vietnam

Trying to contain Molly's hair in the net and get it all under the hardhat!  She's since had a haircut!

Molly and a teammate.

getting ready for her class.

Molly.

Molly.

Glad to get that helmet off!

It was sunny and HOT...

The battle with Molly's hair...again! :)

Looking Sharp!

Molly's 1st place ride on this buckskin.

I love this picture!

Can you see her smile?  

Hard work paid off!!

     Sundays show is at Endicott College in Massachusetts so they go down as a team the night before, stay in a hotel and show the next day...should be fun!  Had to invest in some new boots...her zipper broke recently so she ended up riding with them wrapped with lime green vetwrap!  Hopefully they will arrive before the weekend!  Anyway here are some pictures....

Rainy Fall

well it's been another rainy dreary weekend.  Mosquitos are viscious.  The sun is actually peaking out a little today.  It was very humid, not comfortable for sleeping.

Molly tried out and made the equestrian team again at Colby Sawyer.  She had her first lesson friday on a horse named Zucchini!  They actually have a horse there bigger than Ansel, its an 18.1 hand gelding, not sure what type.

Molly was chosen to be an associate member of Alph Chi Honor Society.  It's for Colby Sawyer sophmores with a 3.75 average or better.  We are sooo proud of her!!  She's home this weekend.  We had her favorite Tilapia dish (layered tomatoes, white wine, butter and parmasan cheese)  Friday, then Saturday we had roast Turkey, macaroni and cheese, acorn squash and apple crisp.  It was fun cooking during the day while she was studying.  She's been making flash cards for A+P (heart, endocrine and blood chapters)

Her lessons at school are on Tues, Thursday and Fridays.  First show is October 8th at UVM, October 9th at Middlebury College.  I have both days off yeah!

John is looking forward to deer season.  He plans on purchasing a new muzzleloader this year (my christmas present to him early)

Route 4 is open again.  Molly can make the trip in about 2 hours as compared to 3 when she had to go down 103.

Tucker is growing like a weed.  He's very smart, very good, still chewing a lot.  He's actually starting to lose those baby teeth now.  He's discovered chipmunks and they seem to know when he's outside and tease him with squeaks and chirps all the time.  He saw his first partridge the other day and actually pointed.

We also saw a fisher cat while walking near the horse pasture the other day.  It was huge with a long black tail and an arched back.  Very strange looking much bigger than tucker and he is 22 lbs now.

New Tucker pictures...getting big!

Tucker helping Molly with her Anatomy and Physiology!

You never said I couldn't get on this couch!

I think my legs are too long....

You won't miss one flower, right?

Our veggies!!  this was just one picking.  We've been down every day and get at least 10-15 cucumbers, squash and tomatoes.  My pumpkins are starting to get orange too.