However, now I am writing you from sunny (ish?) Aiken South Carolina, where it is currently 12 degrees at night and 55 degrees in the day. I don’t know how I feel about this, but I can tell you with fresh clip jobs and ice in the shadows, I haven’t really been suntanning and sipping mai-tais. While my horses sit snugly in their lovely stalls under several cozy blankets, I have found (for less than a quarter of my horse’s board) a shack. In the woods. It has an outhouse, one propane heat source, and the ceiling seems to be leaking, but the landlord assures us that once the ice all melts, that constant dripping should stop. This, my friends, is dedication. With that, I give you your Saturday links:
—Ecogold, Cavalor, and FLAIR are sponsoring the Area II annual meeting, making it one big EN party
—Full Moon Farm is offering a 1/4 star
—UK Horse-trainer ‘killed lover and burned his body on a bonfire as she sipped wine on the patio’ [via JER]
—British Eventing offers courses on how to fall off
—USET Foundation Will Award 2011 Lionel Guerrand-Hermes Trophy to Tiana Coundray
—Nick Skelton makes winning return after 5 months away
—UK horse industry four times bigger than thought
—Judge Judy turns legal mind to ‘horse napping’
No USEA events this weekend 🙁
Happy start to the season! Go Eventing.