Shedding Season Has Begun

I am chilly, but I just spent 17 days living where the temps are in the mid90's with 90% humidity, so of course I'm cold now that it's 70 degrees and rainy. I'm back in the flannel jeans, but Babe? Babe is shedding. While she ate dinner, I curried copious quantities of chestnut fur onto Rufus, who is the same color and who was standing underneath Babe hoping that I'd throw the ball. I kicked it once or twice. When he'd go skittling off after it, Babe fur would land on the ground. I suspect RalphtheWonderPony is creating snow right about now.

Here's what I think about Brazil and travel and stuff.

1. You can never eat enough meat.
2. Soccer is on 24/7 in the world if you've got ESPN and you aren't in the US of A.
3. Criollo horses are gorgeous and my new love.
4. I really need to work on my canter transitions. (I've been weak on that for years. Years. You think I'd get them by now, but no, not really. At least I don't fall off.)
5. Brazilian horses are a lot more patient than American horses. They stand quietly while tied for hours on end.
6. Irish horses can trot for hours.
7. We are, overall, too easy on our horses, but they're pets, not work animals.
8. Paraguay is a shopping hell.
9. Choose the chicken bone. (This was the slogan on a t-shirt of a man in Paraguay. Oh, how I wish I had a picture! It illustrates how silly humans are as there is cachet in having English on clothing. Any random phrase will do, no matter how nonsensical. I suspect that the manufacturers use spam as the source for their slogans. Here's some spam: "cut off; he staggered sideways into the wall of watching Death Eaters." Not quite as good as Choose the Chicken Bone, but you get the drift. Oh, and I bought paper napkins made by Snob.

I've got more pictures to download from our last day and then to upload to Flickr. I'll get to that this weekend, along with finding my kitchen counters. They are hidden underneath the mounds of chocolate and coffee we brought back. Brazilian chocolate isn't all that and a bag of chips, but it's not bad and who doesn't love chocolate? Their coffee is awesomecakes.

OH! In case you're looking or know someone who is, Laurie is selling her 10 year old, Appaloosa gelding. He's great on trails. The price is $2,000, but there's some wiggle room there. If you're interested, email her at myapdiz@bellsouth.net. For those of you who don't know who Laurie is, she's my friend who lives up near 1099/Horse Camp, and I bought Asia from her.