May Days

My daughter and I took our dogs to Goldhead State Park for a 3 mile hike. Don't laugh, 3 miles of hills and roots and some deep sand was pretty tough on this ole girl. The trails were very pretty and there were some creek crossings where the dogs could get some water. At one point we saw a little fawn that couldn't have been a week old, walking around and bleating for its mom. That was strange because normally fawns would be lying still, hiding. Even more weird was the little thing saw us and starting walking to us. The dogs scared it and it ran off. Jenny made sure to stop by the ranger's office so they could see if maybe it was abandoned.

After our walk, Jenny and I parted ways and I went on to the Clay County Fairgrounds to see Dennis Reis and his No Dust tour. I've always liked him on RFD TV, but I have to say, I was very disappointed in his "live" demonstrations. He was filming 30 minute segments for his show, then he would talk to the audience afterwards. He had just completed the first TV segment and his question and answer session, when he whips out his DVD package and proceeds to start selling his $1,000 system before we've really seen anything of what he could do. I thought that was a little premature and a backwards kind of selling techinique. But....maybe he was worried that people (like myself) would get a little bored and leave early. I still think he can do great things, but his style and the way he talked to his team turned me off.

Just for fun, I thought you might like to see my crazy cat that thinks he's a dog. He goes out with the dogs in the morning and sometimes he goes in the kennel with them. I had a VERY busy weekend - didn't get any riding in, but along with my Saturday walk and horse watching seminar, we spent some quality time with Mom and our church friends. Here are the rest of the pictures taken over this weekend. PHOTOS