What's Up Wednesday

I feel like it's been a really long week, but can't remember half of what happened... Let's see... We last left off it was a rainy Thursday. But when I got home from work and finally dragged myself out of the car (the heated seats suck me in for some social media scrolling sometimes...) I saw this site:

I've never seen anything quite like it! It didn't last long, since the clouds filled back in quickly. But I'm so glad I captured it! (High five new phone!) Anyway, I was supposed to head to Nantucket for a four day weekend with the family, but we had terrible weather on Friday. It wasn't raining, but the winds were blowing at 40 mph so our little plane was grounded. It was kind of nice though. I had taken the day off work, so opted to take the time off and enjoy the horses! I started with Eros and then headed home for Shiny and Pammon. I stayed indoors with Eros. Gotta take advantage of that option when you can in bad weather! But obviously, it was outdoors or nothing for the ones at home. Shiny was  her usual ridiculously lazy self despite the gale force winds blowing all around her. She really is something else! (Visit my Instagram for a video clip of the wind!) Pammon gets a "special cookie" before his walks these days. (A pill pocket for horses stuffed with ace tabs...) I stuck an extra tab in there due to the weather conditions. He was a good boy and walked around for 20 minutes without incident.
Speaking of ace tabs... I also put them in his breakfast so he can have some time in the small walkout in the mornings. I want to be sure he eats them though, so I grind them up. I found the best little grinder on Amazon, and figured I'd share in case anyone else is in need.  It's rechargeable (so cordless when you want it to be) and it's super small. Wouldn't work as well if you needed to grind a big handful of pills. But it's great if you just have a few.

It was pretty up in the air when we would leave Saturday as it was still stormy on the island. Initially I was told 4 pm, which I was like super, I can ride all the horses! So I took my time getting out the door, and then the departure time changed to 1. And then the assistant trainer asked if I could ride Fefe instead of her getting a training ride, and I was like SURE! But also super behind. So I rode Eros and Fefe, but the home horses wound up with days off. It's ok though, they'd have had them off anyway if we'd left as planned. By the time we boarded the plane, it was a beautiful day! In CT anyway.

It was still rainy on Nantucket, so we got settled in and headed to an early dinner and that was about it for day 1!
Day two was BEAUTIFUL. It was sunny and relatively warm. So I got my lazy self up and went for a short 2 mile run.

Afterwards, the family went out for lunch and did some Nantucket souvenir shopping. It was a very relaxing day with no real agenda.

Except ice cream. Ice cream WAS on the agenda.

 We topped it off with an amazing dinner. Sunday we had to leave around one, so we went out for breakfast and then just lazed around until it was time to go. I read a whole book on our trip! So nice to have nothing but free time once in awhile. I mean, often it would be boring, but it's nice for a few days.

 I was home early enough to ride Shiny and walk Pammon before picking the pups up at my mom's. They were very good kids for their grandma which was nice. I hate picking them up when they've made grandma grumpy!

And then it was back to the grind. Work has been so busy lately! I didn't have to stay too late Tuesday though, so got the kiddos out last night. It was beautiful with the not quite full moon rising.

And that's about it from here. A relatively quiet week, but plenty of ponies and a quick trip away! I shall leave you with some adorable pup photos: