Last night we went to the races at Prairie Meadows since the weather was decent for a change.  We started out standing out by the track and then over by the paddock area.  It's amazing to me how powerful the horses are, they are skinny (my daughter said they aren't skinny they are just right).  The jockey's are little bitty guys, some were maybe 5'2" tall but they could slip through a keyhole and never touch the locks!  That being said, they are solid muscle, like solid rope, tough and strong.

I understand why it takes so long (20 minutes) between races, by the time the jockey’s get back to the jockey room to get ready for the next race, the horses get brought out to the paddock area and prepared for the race, the exercise people walk them around a little before the jockey gets out there and then the walk around the paddock and out onto the track, but, when you are sitting inside waiting for them to come it seems to take longer than that.  I get bored (of course I do, it’s 20 minutes without anything going on).  So unless we are outside it takes “forever” for the next race.

We stayed through 8 or the 9 races and then were ready to come home.  We had moved inside when it got dark and the wind picked way up so the 20 minutes took too long LOL.

I do want to go to the track someplace else sometime and see if the environment is part of what makes it drag for me, there isn’t a whole lot going on at PM to keep you interested and the announcer is totally boring. 

When the handicapper picks his choices we always chuckle and see who is left since he is rarely right.

Today was cookie day again, seems that Saturday has ended up being cookie day for me.  I made Kay’s “Star” cookies (without the chocolate stars cause I don’t’ like them) but the cookies are really good.  I took some down to the front desk for the people working today and tonight and will take whatever is left to the office on Monday.  The guys eat them up!

It doesn’t make a huge batch so it works out just fine.  Making the cookies made me think of Grandma and her donuts when I was little.  She always had donuts in the cupboard or we (actually Joe and Grandma) made them while we were there.  Hopefully I will be able to have cookies baked for when the kids and grandkids come over to Grandma’s house (pretty soon guys!).  I would get a kick out of Peanut and the others going to the cookie jar knowing that there were cookies there for them to have!

We are making the plans for the final days before the sale; we still have some stuff to get out (or into our pile so they don’t get sold) and some cloths that need to go to the Fellowship Cup.  We have to drain out the tanks, although they are going to be sold inside since the auctioneers don’t want to move them to the yard and risk having them break.  They are really heavy so whoever buys them can worry about getting them out of the house.

Talked with the client that is getting his ads ready for the big push yesterday.  He will have the stuff to us by the middle of this week since he wants the ads up by the 15^th and it takes a long time to get everything in the right spot since there are about 65 spots they need to be placed in. 

With teaching 3 nights a week for the next couple of weeks the schedule is really crazy for other stuff to get done and then we have to go home in there sometime.  This too will get done pretty soon.

I’m looking forward to house hunting, can you believe three prong outlets??  How exciting!

It will all come to a conclusion soon, it’s time and we are mentally prepared.  Maybe more so than the girls.  We really are ready for the end of MP. 

Now, not that MP isn’t a great community, it is.  Not that we didn’t enjoy living there and feeling safe and knowing so many of the people, we did.  But, as with all things, it’s time to change and move on.  The Prof says that 7 years is max and we have been there for 13!  (he has been there for 14)