Well Apparently...

My blog about the hydra bull clinic, which I thought was quite interesting, did not count. So here is the post about the updated yard situation and just to commemorate the occassion I threw in a couple of pics of the progress on the barn.

Hydra Bull Cutting Clinic

So I spent my entire day today at a hydra bull cutting clinic/competition. A hydra bull is a motorized bull that is basically a superb training aid for a cutting horse that is just learning. The clinic was first from 9:00 am to 2:00 where each participant had 2 turns to practice working their bull. The competition started at 4 and each participant was judged on various skills that I wont bore you with here. Dave came and took some pictures which was really sweet, sadly he forgot that if you rotate the lens you can zoom in so the pictures are pretty far away but you can probably get the idea of what it looked like. We ended with a score of 68, high score of the day was 72 1/2. It was a lot of fun and there will be many more hours spent honing my skills at cutting :)

Progress Cowden style

as is better late than never. Well we have been here for over three months and up until this past weekend next to nothing had been done. But thats all changed now, the yard has been leveled, the hill has been built and nicely sloped, the front planter area in back of the shrubs has been filled pretty much all thats left now is for the ground below the house to be graded so we can put up our stalls oh and putting up the carport. Today they came and hydroseeded everything, amazing stuff really. They did hydroseed the hill area but plan to put some sort of ground cover there eventually as it would be next to impossibe to mow. Not sure when we will be able to fence it in and actually use it but in the mean time it sure looks much nicer and we were happy to discover how large the yard actually is now that it is all level. The dogs are going to be very happy :) As a bonus my new car is in some of the shots...

First day of School 2010/2011

Hailey is so super excited to be going back to school!! (She says dripping with sarcasim) She did dutifully get out of bed and get ready but she was openly indignant regarding our long standing tradition of first day of school pictures, whats up with that? She did it albeit with a sarcastic expression...whom does she remind me of?????