March

March 1 (or there abouts):

Sadly, Dagwood our long term friend had to be put to sleep last fall. He had been with Cedar Lodge since he was born, some 16 years ago. We knew a cat or two would wander in and need a home eventually and sure enough, in February the call came from sister-in-law, Pat about a cat that had been dumped at their house. We agreed to give the gray and white female a home in our barn. The problem was, no one saw her arrive, and though Pat was adamant that they dropped the new kitty in the barn, for a week, none of us saw her. During that time, we had a terrible snow storm with high winds, low temperatures and a foot of snow. We were all sure that new kitty had just decided that barn life was not for her! Not so. after a bit more than a week, barn personnel started to report "sightings" of a gray and white streak of light passing here and there within the barn. In another week or so, our new barn kitty decided that barn life wasn't so bad, the the horses were big.....but dumb. New kitty's name is Ellie, and she promptly became friendly and pregnant all in the same week. Stay tuned for the results in May!

March 3:

Chris is gone to Ann Arbor Camp Fair

March 9-11:

Vaulting Weekend (Kendra)
We have had so much interest in vaulting this last year that it was a unanimous decision to try a couple of competitions this year. Most that showed interest got a good start on their routines at winter camp, but there was still loads to do. Kendra and Kali were nice enough to take their weekends home from college to put together three vaulting weekend dates that vaulters could attend to work on what they wold be competing on. Two of those weekends were in March, one in April. Vaulters that wanted to compete had to attend two of the three. Both weekends in March were well attended and Kali and Kendra kept them all very busy. The girls still found time for an afternoon ride, and Sunday, mid morning they performed for parents, staff and interested on-lookers.

Sunday, March 25th Jane Egger of Agape Vaulting club agreed to come down and work with the girls for a couple of hours. All agreed they learned allot and that the extra set of eyes was very helpful.

Click here to go to the March vaulting weekend photo gallery.

March 23-25:

Vaulting weekend (Kali)
See above

March 31:

Chris is gone to South Bend Camp Fair

Beginning March till end:

Amy and Craig work on web site. Craig and I have been talking about it for a couple of years. Regardless of the wonderful content, the Cedar Lodge web site is difficult to navigate. Chalk it up to my own inexperience, my own personality, and years of adding bright ideas on to the original format, and it equals a web site, that even seasoned users will now and again stumble upon a page they didn't know existed. This March was it. Craig had a lull in his studies, and well, I didn't really want to go start riding anyway. It was time to give the Cedar Lodge web site a full frontal attack. Hundreds of hours later, Craig was researched, downloaded and experimented enough to give me a list of my projects a mile (or hundreds of hours,which ever you prefer) long. I took a look at the list, I took a look at when I should start riding, and I have to admit, I had a minor panic attack. Then I got comfortable in my office chair and started in. Hours and hours later, with loads of on going help from Craig, at the end of March, I'm still not done, but don't fret! This story has a happy ending in April, as you can see.