6-30-2021 - Wednesday
First, meet the critters:
Sophia - 3-4 months (she's Catalina's)
Dory - 1 1/2
Izzy - 15 (she's the only one left of the original 4 dogs they had in Texas)
Chewbacca - 4 (Joe's trying to teach her "4 on the floor." She likes to put her front feet on you on the couch.)
Butterscotch - around 5 (She mostly stays out of the way.)
Today Andrew had a dentist appointment at 8:30 to have a molar removed to make room for his permanent molar. Not a fun way to start the day, but he wasn't nearly as worried about it as I would have been, so I tried not to influence him. We were in charge of feeding Catalina and getting her to her horse riding lesson. We breakfasted at McDonald's, with her trying to hurry us up all morning. We got to the stables an hour early, and this isn't a great environment to wait in. This stables is not an elite riding park -- it actually could do with a bit of sprucing up. But they have horses, that's all that counts.
They had a field trip going out on trail rides this morning. There were 16 in the first group, and 16 in the second group. The second group was getting ready to go out just as we finished our session.
Eric gives Catalina, and John, a hard time about Catalina's helmet. So I checked out some of the ones the other kids were wearing. I think she is right in fashion.
Catalina
This might be Scooby Do
We had a long wait, and Kelsey, the trainer, was late for the first time. Bridgette and Andrew got there right at 10, when her lesson was supposed to start. Andrew is chilling out with Grandpa.
Finally, Catalina is ready to ride. The trail riders took Jacob, the horse she rode last week, so they had to find her a different one. She ended up on Moosey.
She looks awfully little on that big horse! They made a few laps around the arena, then practiced circling the barrels.
The trail riders got back, so Kelsey put her on Jacob. (Beautiful horse)
But the reins were too short, and Catalina couldn't sit up straight, so Kelsey put her back on Moosey.
Andrew hung in there. He said he didn't have any pain, but as soon as Catalina was done in the arena, Joe and I took Andrew home while Bridgette waited for the finish. I got my turn holding our wounded warrior. 
It was hot and humid, and we got a pretty good rain storm in the afternoon. Andrew got to veg out in front of the TV, a rare event. Bridgette, Catalina and I went shopping for a little while, then John fixed dinner and we had an evening at home. We watched the Tampa Bay Lightning Bolts for a while, but couldn't stay up late enough to see them win. They are 2-0 over the Montreal Canadians in the Stanley Cup Finals. Meanwhile, back in Arizona, the Phoenix Suns just won the Western Conference and will now advance to the NBA finals.
On the weather front, John saw on the hurricane watch there there is a tropical storm forming in the Atlantic that could possibly hit Florida early next week (John says now Wednesday). I don't think it was strong enough yesterday for a name, but this morning it strengthened into a tropical storm and became Elsa, the fifth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Something else to worry about!
Tomorrow the kids are going in to work with Bridgette, so we just have to take care of John, who is going to work at home. Joe is still working on installing the electric line for the campers. We are expecting rain again this afternoon. It's currently 88 (noon on Thursday at this posting), feels like 97 (humidity 66%). Wish we could send some of this rain to Arizona!
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