Last night we went to the Rockie Mountain Saddle Club awards banquet. It was in Fort Collins at the Senior Center. Even with missing several of the shows because of the vesicular stomatitis that was going around this summer (a disease similar to hoof-and-mouth but seen in horses), the Bit of Honey crew did quite well! For year end points for level 3/4 English I came in third and won a black saddle pad with RMSC 2014 embroidered on it. I've always wanted to win a saddle pad with embroidery, and this one is great!
This club always has really great participation prizes as well. Anyone who shows in at least one show gets those. I also won a door prize in the raffle and picked out some great green bell boots that are big enough for my huge horse's feet.
This is the Bit of Honey summer crew. Left to right we have Joyce, Kim H., Rebecca, me, Trisha and Chase. Six of the horses lived at Trisha and Chase's barn over the summer while we were in-between homes, and we'll forever be grateful for their generosity.
Chase and Trisha also did a slide show using photos from the show season. Thanks to Kim H.'s photography skills there were a lot of fun photos from the english division. The slide show was really well done, and they even surprised us with a special tribute to the horses we've lost who competed with us over the season. Abbey, Major, Lacey, and Star were all given beautiful recognition.
We also took a photo of a larger group for the local newspaper to show our appreciation for the sponsors who donated prizes to the club. On closer inspection I notice most of the adults seem to have skipped out on this shot, but at least you can see a lot of the kids.
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