SNOWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow we (my family and I) are FINALLY flying up to Jackson to see Grandpa and SKI! In the awesome powder that they've been having up there! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH I am so excited about this that it REALLY DOES warrant caps. We've been stuck down here drooling and bawling alternately over the snow reports without being able to go up there.

Going up to Jackson means two weeks of sheer cold, fires in the hearth, snow, and skiing, without horses or model horses or anything, but since it's such a great snow year that doesn't matter to me at all. But, I do have two SMs up there that are just ripe to be customized, and I think I might be able to convince Grandpa to help me make one of them (a G1 Arab) into a clock horse for Ruth (his "girlfriend" I guess), because one of the major things he does in wood are little clocks. Anyway... I'll probably do the horse in increments, maybe in the evenings after skiing-- I assure you, I don't think I'll take too much time off to do it.

I urgently have to go pack, so good bye for now.

Applications blues

I finally got some photos of Strapless or Black Tie Affair as the specific model is called. She's on the Strapless mold, as we know.

She is body quality as advertised. I hope to eventually make her into a black sabino, bay sabino, or some other type of sabino... in case you were wondering, I just really like sabinos. I'll probably make her over when I get some experience customizing. This will probably take a few years.

I have been working on essays for boarding school applications. If I had to choose three words to describe them, I would say: Annoying, necessary, and time-consuming, in no particular order. The most important word is "necessary" because if I want to get into any of these schools I have to submit the essays--and they have to be really friggin good (pardon the language). I've been trying to work on them for the past two weeks and I'm finding it hard for me to really concentrate. I dislike writing essays like that, but I suppose I have no choice.

There's nothing else I really need to say so... off to applications again.

Last real school day before Christmas Break.

Thank goodness. All that's left to do is to read with the rest of Honor Society at Lessons and Carols. We're the "Lessons" part.

I have very little time but I will say two things.

One, pictures of Strapless will be up tomorrow. Two, we have decided to buy the Beval Salem. It's a great saddle, leather is breaking in already after two rides.

Ah, I've been allotted a few more minutes by the parental units. I might as well say something about today's lesson. Jones was quite good. Though a bit slow (but nippy) to come out of the pasture, he was pretty good under saddle. Because he was going so well, we could focus on my eq (equitation to you, Sara). Basically since we couldn't really get my leg to stay in one place with the slick leathers, all we had to focus on today was hands and shoulders. I think I fixed my hands a bit, but as always my shoulders need more work.

After Jones was all put away and my tack was clean, I decided to make my move on cleaning the old leather halters hanging on the halter pegs. There are so many nice leather halters back there but none ever get used, let alone cleaned. Dust is literally caked all over them. So I took two of my numerous tack sponges and started working on them. They look much nicer, though they could all use a good, long oiling. After break I think I'll ask Kim if I can take them all home and oil 'em up. They bother me just lying around gathering dust.

I think that's all I can write for now. Good night all.