The birthday girl

Anya's getting a saddle for her birthday! The saddle guy called this morning and we went over all the details, and I ordered it. It's costing me less than a regular saddle, by about half. Even with the custom tooling. I have no idea how he can charge so little, but I'm really glad!

He said it should be here in the next 4-6 weeks. Which is really fast turn around for a custom saddle. I'm sooooo excited!

When the farrier was out last, she brought one of her saddles with her. We saddled Anya up, and she didn't even flinch. They told me she'd been ridden, but after all the other stuff, I don't know what to believe. But after seeing that, I have to think either she's totally comfortable with it because she's done it before (at six you'd think so - but the breeders...who knows) or because it was me. But I was really impressed. We put it on her and I walked around with her on a lead and she was completely nonchalant about the whole thing. Never bucked, or kicked, or stomped. She sniffed it a few times and that was that.

This morning I went out and painted hearts on her butt, my little pony style. She stood there and let me do it, too.







For her birthday I made her carrot cake. It was just the carrot cookies that I usually make her, but I put it into a round cake pan. She got molasses icing.



She thought it was really yummy.