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| That's Nancy with her Eli, and that's Jen with CB, and that's my brother Kevin's elbow. |
We could not have asked for a better outcome, hauling two little horse babies from Montana to Idaho, than what we experienced yesterday.
Last word from the folks who visited with little CB after our Friday-night dinner was that he and his stall mate Arty had gotten acquainted and were settled in for the night after a bed-time session of enthusiastic TLC. I have already discovered that little CB loves his peep attention.
The texts also reported that CB was munching on hay, drinking water and getting along just fine with Arty. Arty wasn't so sure at first, but after some time spent with his new buddy, one report said Arty had quit laying his ears back.
You see, we observed that CB probably could hold his own when he answered one of Arty's hate stares by turning his rear and feigning a double kick.
No blows, though.
It took all of about five minutes to urge Eli (who now lives in Upper Pack River with her owner Nancy) and CB into my brother's trailer at Ravenwood Arabians.
When we stopped for gas at Thompson Falls, not a peep was heard from inside the trailer where the two stood calmly, just looking back at us when we peeked in the window.
Both Nancy and I were pretty apprehensive about the unloading procedure, first at her barn and later at Tibbs Arabians.
Much ado about nothing: both came out of the trailer at their new homes without incident, and I swear that CB, after having a halter on for the second time pretty much knows how to lead.
It did get a little dicey (mainly for me) when an entourage of three other horses swarmed and sniffed out CB as he entered the arena and walked across to his stall.
I wondered if they might get a little exuberant and forget there was an old lady in front of that new little guy, but they were all very careful and respectful of my space.
It's been pretty muddy over there at the Ronan farm, so CB's pretty white stockings are crusted gray right now, but with some careful grooming, we oughta get him all spruced up in no time.
Again, many thanks to Jane, Jen, Kevin, Joyce, Barbara, Nancy and Ashleigh who all helped with the transport process.
Two new horse moms are relieved and thrilled and ready to get started dishing out a lot of love to the new babies.
In other news, I'm happy to share more information about our Sandpoint High grad who designed the entire interior of this week's Time Magazine Person of the Year (POY) issue.
Chelsea Kardokus, whose family roots in Sandpoint go deep among the Darnell and Bergstrom family, was gracious enough to share with me some details about her position with Time Magazine and about her role in this week's edition.
After graduating from Ball State University in 2012 with a degree in journalism graphics, Chelsea went to work for Time in 2013. Since then she has received several promotions and now works as associate art director of the publication.
Chelsea says she works on pages every week with Wednesday being the deadline. On Thursday's, the staff starts on the next week's issue. Her responsibilities range from small segments to features to entire issues, such as the Person of the Year edition.
"I worked on the POY for two weeks exclusively and before that for about another week while working on other projects," Chelsea explained. "I did not do the cover but did the whole inside. Only the creative director ever designs the cover.
I came up with the entire design for the main package---colors, fonts, placements, the ideas for pulling out the women's quotes, etc," she added. "I did know the whole time I was designing [ who had been selected as POY], but it's very secret. I couldn't even tell my mom [Lori Darnell Lowery of Sandpoint] who it was."
Chelsea says that sometimes the staff gets to meet the honorees but usually photographers go on site to shoot portraits.
As a fascinating aside, another SHS Cedar Post/Monticola alum, Rocky Kenworthy, SHS Class of 1983, worked as photography assistant to Gregory Heisler in 1993 when four world leaders were featured on the cover.
Twas pretty neat to learn later that he had participated in this monumental assignment.
Finally, this morning, I'm thrilled to share some information I learned the night before last about an exciting new entry into the Idaho governor's race.
Idaho Rep. Paulette Jordan made her official announcement about entering the race Thursday evening. My niece Laura, who works as environmental specialist for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, was present for the announcement.
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2017/dec/07/rep-paulette-jordan-announces-shell-run-governor-democrat/
Here's a short segment from Spokesman Review staff writer Betsy Z. Russell's story in the link above.
"Service is an inherent value in my family, from my ancestors on down to my sons, and they will carry that tradition forward in their lives. I'm proud to be part of Idaho's family," Jordan said while speaking to a crowd of friends, family and supporters in Moscow.
"Because of who we are and who we can become, my vision for the 21st century is seeing Idaho emerge as the greatest state in the history of the United States," she said.
Some pretty exciting news, I'd say.
Best of luck to Rep. Jordan!
Happy Saturday, and GO, Lady Bulldogs, both at Gonzaga and at Sandpoint High, where the local team is going after its third win this week.
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