Monday, Monday

~~~Laurie and Lily at yesterday's Bonner County Fair Horse Show~~~

The show lasted a little longer than Saturday's English version, but we were still leaving the fairgrounds around 3 p.m., which is highly unusual for a horse show.

Still, it was a fun day. Mother came and got to see the horses in their Western performance classes. They did well, winning ribbons in almost every class.

Lily shied at a barrel in her first class and seemed a bit rushed. After that, she settled down and did fine. That might be because she knew her trainer was there watching.

It was a relaxing day with lots of old friends hanging out at the show.

Later, delicious frybread came to the Lovestead, thanks to our friend Jeannie Mikkelsen. She also brought a copy of the spring edition of NIEA News, the award-winning publication for the National Indian Education Association.

This particular issue features a cool cover photo of Jeannie's son and one of our Sandpoint soccer player extraordinaires, Chase Mikkelsen. Inside is an article about his decision to play soccer in Norway.

To see it, you can go to http://www.niea.org/media/Spring%202009.pdf

After Jeannie visited and inspected Big Blue, Bill and I took part of my entries to the fair. People were impressed with my Walla Walla sweets, and one of the superintendents told me I may have the only watermelon in the fair.

I still have more stuff to gather from the garden and have to get ready to go judge creative writing, so I'll just wish everyone a happy Monday.