[Rose of Sharn]

We have all the puppies indoors at the moment. they are inbetween feedings and it is SO HOT outside, even in the shade, I thought I would bring them in and let them cool. They have all gone to sleep! I did this yesterday at the hottest part of the day and it worked well. : )

As for fireworks, they make me nervous. They were banned from selling them in GA but this year I have seen them for sale in Wmart. I guess the law has changed somewhere along the way.........

[Rose of Sharn]

Just found this on it

Long illegal in Georgia, sparklers now are allowed thanks to a bill signed into law last month. Any small-charge sparkling fountain, as long as it doesn’t shoot in the air, is now legal.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

We've always shot off fireworks. I enjoy the night stuff as much as the kids do. The plain ole firecrakers I can do without, but the kids, especially boys love them. Charlie and my nephews use to run all over out here blowing up anything that seemed remotely possible to blow up:). Fortunately we've never had an injury beyond punk burns and an occasional cracker going off in a hand but those are short term hurts.

Becky

[AnAmericanMother]

Afternoon, all.

Fireworks are already starting to go off around here . . . they'll keep it up all night probably. Only thing I have to worry about my dog is her trying to RETRIEVE the darn things . . . if she hears a loud pop, she figures it MUST have something to do with a duck she's supposed to find.

I just got back from a friend's house. She has this cute little Arab pony that I am riding for her, because she broke her leg 12 weeks ago and she's still not back on her feet (it's a long story).

This was our first try with the new bit I bought for this little girl -- she had a Tom Thumb curb in her mouth that was WAY too much for a sensitive little Arab. I got her a nice D-ring French snaffle (the double joint in the mouth with a round copper barrel in the middle). It was cute to watch her - as soon as I put it in her mouth she started rolling the barrel on her tongue. We settled down to work right away. She accepted contact pretty well, she didn't understand what I wanted at first but we did tons of trotting circles and leg yieldings and she almost immediately understood what I wanted. She has a very rapid canter with her head up in the air, there's not much room in her paddock to work her down (I need someplace where I can do 20m circles with her) but she's starting to soften and not take such rapid strides. I started her over trotting poles, and she got the hang of that right away. Pretty good progress for a hot Sunday afternoon!

Got a picture of Gracie and me in the Hunter Pace --

We jumped the wimp panel, but what the heck. We'd been out for almost 2 hours at that point. . .