Trying crazy things

Don't ya hate it when you are in the moment, working with your horse, and in the back of your mind you're thinking "This would be a great blog entry!" and you come up with a snazzy title and great witty content and can't wait to blog about it... and then by the time you actually get to sit down in front of the computer... it's gone. I knew I should've written it that night, haha!! I am so incredibly busy you have no idea, work is GO GO GO right now.  We are gearing up for training 5 new Helpdesk associates, and it's my job to facilitate the training.  The goal to train all five in a week.  YIKES.  I'm recruiting as much...

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Flood of 2013

What a week it has been for Northern Colorado... By the numbers: - Flood conditions across 17 counties - 8 deaths (including 2 presumed) - 11,750 people evacuated (OEM estimate) - 17,994 homes damaged (OEM estimate) - 1,502 homes destroyed (OEM estimate) - 1,120 Sq. Mi. affected in Larimer Co. - 875 Sq. Mi. affected in Boulder Co. - 385 Sq. Mi. affected in Jefferson Co. - Over 50 bridges destroyed or seriously damaged The town I live in escaped relatively unscathed, (and yes, I'm perfectly fine, I live up on a ridge and if the water levels ever got high enough to flood my house... well, in the words of my Business Management professor "I'd either be looking for an Ark or the Four Horses of the Apocalypse because it would be the end of the world.") However they did shut down all the bridges...

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Rain, rain, rain....

Oh my word, I have not seen this kind of rain ever before... Some parts of Colorado have seen over 10" of rain in the past 48 hours.  Folks, that is over HALF of our Annual Total Yearly moisture total (rain + snow).  Estes Park, Boulder, Lyons, and Aurora are all reporting extremely damaging and deadly flash flooding. About 12:30 last night my phone suddenly starting going off like crazy due to a Severe Flash Flood Warning that was listed as "life threatening".... yikes!  So glad I live on a ridge. What the weather map looked like last night....Yep, that's me in the middle! All the canyon roads leading up into the mountains...

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Pursuit of Perfection

I'm sitting here watching the test that Ingrid Klimke just put in on FRH Butts Abraxxas (you can watch it here!!), leaving them the current leader at Burghley, and I see her perform a collected trot shoulder in from the corner toan  8m circle at B to a half-pass to centerline to a transition to extended walk at C... whew! She did it beautifully and I can't help but lament my lack of a horse capable of doing those movements, back when I had Pie I could do those things! And it was SO MUCH FUN. I think that's a lot of my problem with Cash... I want so bad for him to be like that, to listen to my leg, and bend, and move sideways when I ask,...

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