Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck Of the Woods part 12 Dog Daze, 1 by critterologist

critterologist wrote:
BIG moon last night! The "biggest" we see all year -- that's what makes it super. It's closer to us now than at any other time this lunar year. :-)

Joyanna had her birthday party on Saturday at Free Spirit Stables. I'm really impressed with them -- great instruction program for beginner & intermediate riders, and all their horses are rescues. Joyanna and her cousin were out there last month for an hour long ring ride. For the party, 8 kids took turns on 4 horses & a pony. Then we went to an activity room for snack, cake, craft (pony beads of course), and a quick blindfolded game of "stick the cutie mark on the pony."

We couldn't have asked for a prettier August day! Hot in the sunny riding ring, but nothing like as hot/humid as it might have been. Everybody had a great time!

Here's Joyanna on Opal, who also happens to be the first horse she ever sat on (at a fall festival when she was 3).