Visiting Mikael at Rising Rainbow Arabians

We stocked up on Coke Zero and A&W rootbeer (photo below) and headed out to visit Mikael. Although I'd been there before, I wanted my man to experience those wonderful horses.


I asked Mikael to show me how to clip faces professionally, and she demonstrated on Storm. Storm was not so sure about me when he first met me.

My man watched, playing with Suede. Suede is really shy but curious and my man learned where he liked to be scratched, and how to earn his trust to do so.

Mrs Mom made me a gorgeous blue show halter for Baasha, and I couldn't wait til I got home to Germany to see it on an Arabian, so I asked if Rhet could model it. He looked great in it.

I enjoyed getting to know more of her horses, they were mostly outside, the temperature that day was 97F.

I thought it was great how Storm lets her spray him all over, including his face! She said I could teach Baasha to handle that, but after all these years, and his hatred of spraying, I think I'll just stick with hot towelling his face. He has a water phobia about his ears and I can live with it: )

I loved hanging out with the Solidaire fillies. They would be my picks. They were just so affectionate, and loving toward Mikael, watching everything she did.

I'd met Mikael just 18 months before, before her illness, and although she's doing badly lately, I was surprised to see how great she looked. She looked much stronger this time. I hope she gets better so she can really ride again.

The photos in this blog are a little backwards, I'm learning a new FTP server. At the end was actually first. We went caching at the Cedar River in downtown Renton (after picking up my new riding helmet at Renton Western Wear - my first time there, since I never rode Western!). It was so bloody hot out I walked right out into the river, joining some Spanish-speaking kids, who were delighted that I'd joined them. I sure to miss Americans' ability to make conversation readily with strangers.

There's also a photo I found in the bathroom of Uptown Espresso, my favorite espresso in Seattle, which made me smile, as well as my step dad Joel, trimming his ancient begonia that belonged to his mother. I love that plant but cannot succeed in getting a cutting to survive the airplane ride.

So that was a day in our vacation, and I am missing my home a lot now!