He Passed!
So, I heard from the vet. Vento passed the vet exam with flying colors. The vet said he “had a great personality”, and then went on to add that often horses are just, well, horses, but Vento seemed like a guy who really liked people. Now my vet just has to sign off on the x-rays, and he’s mine. Turns out my coach isn’t going to L.A. for six weeks so Vento will come home just as soon as I can arrange for transport. I may have him right before Christmas. That is a real trip — a white stallion for Christmas. Too bad I can’t tuck him under the tree.
I can’t tell you how exciting this is for me. I’m including a photo of me riding Vento. My head is turned because I’m listening to my coach, and please keep in mind this is only the second time I’ve ever ridden this horse, but I think we look pretty good together. I hope this is my equine companion for many years to come.
Melinda
December 12th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
That’s a pretty big horse, like four times my screen size.
It also did something funny with the settings, you now have a black script on dark blue background.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Oh, dear, I wonder what happened? It’s not black on blue on my computer, and the picture is quite small. I have no idea how to fix this. If the problem happens to everyone please let me know, and I’ll run screaming to my web designer for help.
Sometimes I’m such a Luddite. *sigh*
December 12th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
There’s something screwed in the image upload command line; the code after ‘http…’ and ‘img src…’ should be the same but isn’t, and there’s a period missing before .img in the first line. That just the sort of thing that will come out very differently on different browsers. So, with Internet Explorer 6 the picture is huge and overwrites the script settings for the first page of your blog (the next one where the pic doesn’t show is ok).
I suppose fixing it will mean to go to the code level of your blog. Don’t do that at home if you don’t know X-HTML and CSS.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:57 am
It’s fine now.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Ye gods, what a beautiful horse! Truly the stuff dreams are made of. My jealously runneth over.
You two do look splendid, so the picture continues to travel well. Your web designer is safe, for now.
December 15th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I’m so happy to hear the news! He’s a beautiful creature.