I had great plans to finish my posts Monday but I spent the day and evening working on some websites. Then I was awakened this morning at 6am when Zoe answered a call from HomePlace where her mom is. She had fallen and was complaing of her hip hurting so she agreed that a trip to the Emergency Room was in order. We got up, got ready, and drove to the hospital in Coupeville. X-rays showed no fractures. She was able to get up and walk around a little so all was well. Her skin is very thin and it had torn on her elbow but a dressing took care of that and we drove her back to HomePlace. She was in pretty good spirits when we dropped her off.

At noon I picked up my 6 year old grandson, Mike, at his daycare and took him over to the fairgrounds in Langley where he went horse riding. There is an organization called Hope that has a program for children. There were three other kids in his session. Each kid had a horse to ride and two volunteers to help the kid. Mike signed in and put on his little crash helmet. They started off having the kid brush the horse and clean his hooves. Then the kids walked the horse, with an adult, to warm it up. There was a ramp that the kids mounted the horses from. Then two adults walked beside each horse while the kids rode. One of the adults held a rope to lead the horse but the kids had the reins and did most of the horse control. Mike is pretty excited about it. I took a lot of pictures mostly with the 85mm J9 on the Zorki 3M and the 135mm Super Takumar on the Pentax Spotmatic. At one point I had both cameras on my right wrist with wrist straps. That actually worked out pretty well. I will drop the film off in the morning.