At The Races

Amanda, my DIL, took me to Arlington Race Track, on May 1st, she said I needed to get out, talk about knowing nothing about the horses, except that they run on 4 horse power (4 legs)! I don't know about how they rate them 10 -1, 1-1, they give you a little run down about the horse and Jockey, how they run on grass, dirty, in the rain, about the jockey, still didn't make sense, she thought it was funny. I told her that I could tell her about the races in NHRA Drag Racing, points standings, crew chief, 8,000 horse power, quarter mile, 1,000 feet, burn out, final eliminations, but I don't know anything about the horses! So any way, this is how it went, Dad gave me his money picked out his horses that morning, ( he got most of his money back, gave me $50.00, got back $35.00) so we where off to the races! First, you need to hear this story, it will make sense out of what horse I picked! When Joe was in the hospital, and was starting to come out of coma or what ever he was in, they said with all the toxins in his systems, he would be hallucinating, well the one that he kept saying was that he had a horse to the day he died. I took a picture of Joe with his cowboy hat the last time we went to Texas, and called it "Cowboy at Heart" he loved his cowboy hat! Well, in the 5th race, there was a horse with the name "Cowboy at Heart" standings were 5-1 what ever that meant, so I put $2.00 to win, place and show, Amanda did the same thing, #7 in the orange, well he came in 2nd, didn't win much, but we knew it was Joe and that damn horse of his! The probable favorites were 3-1-10-8, mine was #10, the horse that came in first was #5 he was 10-1, go figure!

Joe, Cowboy at Heart

Cowboy at Heart #7

Came in Second!!

Stitching

As far as stitching goes, I haven't picked up the needle in about a week! I haven't been in the mood to stitch. I have been working in the yard getting my flowers planted.