One week to mid-terms!

The semester has been flying by. I can't believe we managed to move and make it this far without losing our minds! Mid-terms are a week from tomorrow. Where did the time go? I guess moving kept us so busy we never really noticed! And, of course, as soon as we moved, people started calling for Nelson to shoe their horses! Where? In Doha, of course. So, we spent about 6 days in a row going back to Doha every afternoon/evening to shoe horses. It's freelancing, but they are paying Nelson's prices and are happy with his work. It takes an exorbitant amount of time to shoe one horse because they are so badly messed up: rarely do angles and length of toe match and Nelson has to spend quite a bit of time balancing and correcting. So be it. The results are fantastic though. It's easy to look good when the feet are so bad to begin with! There is an endurance ride/race today that we are going to. The plan is to help out our friend, Avril, with pit crewing as she needs us, and to hang out, schmooze, meet people, take some pulses, maybe consult a little bit here and there. Nelson and I are hard to miss. It's getting more and more difficult though being without a horse. I threatened people last week that if someone doesn't find a horse for me to ride, I am going to take Nelson away. :) They are not sure what to think. They have asked me if I am a farrier also, because Nelson and I discuss quite a bit together. He has always asked my opinion and what I see. It's part of being married, I suppose, but we have always made a great team whether it was the shoeing business or endurance riding or traveling the world together! I think we'd win The Amazing Race if we could ever get on it! :) Hahahaha! Anyway, I posted photos on Facebook of some of the villa post moving in, but am going outside to take more this morning. We will go to the endurance ride/race this afternoon (it starts at 4:00 p.m.) and I will write a story and add photos tomorrow. Catch ya all then!