I finally got the last piece of documentation for our 2008 taxes and now am able to complete them. We own again this year so I won't file until April 15th. I'm taking a look at my deductions and I'll make sure they hold out enough this year so we won't have to come up with it in 2010. I just read where Obama wants to give us married couples a $1000 tax cut this year that would be tied into the $827 billion stimulus package they are debating.

Last night we hauled the horses out to Dodge Creek Stables to ride on open ride night with the posse. They have a nice arena but there was about 20 people on horse and the dust was so thick in the air it was like a thick fog. We debated on riding for a little while then finally got the horses out. After about and hour most of the folks had left and it was down to just the posse group. We had eight or so people riding. The next couple of hours were pretty comfortable but still we were all covered with brown dust. I'm still getting it out of my eyes this morning. We're hoping they fix that be next Friday so it won't be so dry. We plan to ride out there most Friday evenings. I need to put a lot of miles on Dustie to get her ready for the drill and the summer parades. The girl is doing very well and learning fast. I worked a lot on transitions last night and she is picking right up on it plus it's helping her to slow down at the trot and at the lope. I'm still amazed at how smooth her lope is even as fast as she likes to move. So we got dirty and sweaty but we had a good ride. Soon I'll be taking her out on the trail. Delaine rode Lacey the whole time while we were there too and they are improving with time in the saddle. She spends a lot of time parked at the rail but that's good for Lacey because she is so antsy with the other horses around at times that Delaine isn't comfortable on her. Lacey finally settled down a bit last night and they worked a bit on side passing. Anna and Brazo did good as usual. He tried to crow hop and act up a bit at first then settled right down into his work mode. Afterward we all stopped at Subway in Sutherlin and had a sandwich before going home. We frustrated the poor gal at Subway because all eight of us showed up at the same time and I think she was ready to start cleaning a prepping to close plus we're kind of loud and silly when we in a group together like that. But she fixed our sandwiches anyway and they were good.

This morning I'm off to work for a while. While I'm gone the hoof trimmer will be here and trim the horses hooves, then later this afternoon I'll do some more clean up around the place here. Maybe I'll build a fire . . .