Off to HOUSE-TON

We are outta here in a couple of hours.  Super ready for Houston to show us a fabulous weekend.  Also very excited to see everyone and celebrate a happy event.  More pictures to come of the city when we actually see it.

Earthquake!

We just got hit with a 5.8 earthquake. It was kinda far away - Chino Hills, about 40 miles away. I was at work, on the 15th floor of my work tower. It was pretty wild - the building is on rollers, so we were swaying pretty bad. I was in a meeting, and everyone was flipping out, but I secretly enjoyed it. As far as I know there isn't any damage yet - but we are in lockdown in the building until they are sure that the glass windows won't fall out. Wheee! My first earthquake!!

Birthday presents

Finally I got all my birthday presents.  Since my birthday was June 9th,  the last present came the other day.  Kyler made me a great headstall.  Jessica got me stomping spur straps and Beth bought me some new boots.  The boots took forever to get here because I had to have them specially made.  My poor narrow feet.  As you can see I am easy to buy for.  Anything to do with horse wear.  Thanks family.  It is all great.

Good Press for Whales and Cops

My band Whales and Cops gets its first real press treatment in this week's Philadelphia Weekly, a local alt weekly publication. Check it out here. Hopefully it will bring some people out to our show and video shoot tomorrow night.

Happy Fourth!

Hope everyone has a great Fourth of July!  Pull out your lawn chairs and eat some watermelon. 

Girls Graduate

Laci and Barkley graduated from obedience school! But then, again, Petsmart lets everyone graduate!

Nevertheless, their mommy and daddy were very proud of how the girls performed.

When East meets West

Last night, I got to hang with my little cousin Spencer.  This was a first encounter for both of us.  Although, under some usual circumstances I believe we are in love.  He's quite the cutie.  He may have spent most of our visit bashful hiding behind Scott, but I think he had a good time, too.  Connie brought him a lion from MGM.  Which he has named "FarquAAAR".  This could change as names do.  Spencer seemed please with the lion and I'm sure it will fit in nicely with his other jungle-themed pals like MONKEY.   Unfortunately I took no pictures, so you'll just have to imagine the scene with help from my day after doodle.  I wish Spencer and his family a speedy recovery and safe journey back to NYC.

Rodney's New Toy

Since everyone is showing off their new toys, WII Fit, Philly home, horse and foal, I thought I would show you my new used tractor.  It is a New Holland T33D.  All I know is that it is much smaller than my old tractor.  It has 33 horsepower, three cylinder diesel engine with 4 wheel drive.  I did cut down a fairly large tree tonight and used it to pull the tree to the woods.  It seemed to get the job done.

Officially a homeowner

As of 5:00 p.m. on June 23rd I became a permanent Philadelphia resident because I now pay property tax. My closing finally went through. I still have mixedfeelings about it. There was so much paper flying around and so many numbers going around that I still haven't quite figured out what happened. A lot of emotions involved as well, which I think I had done a pretty good job of staying calm about other than the frustrations of renting the apartment. I do know that I got a pretty sweet deal and a pretty sweet house. I had a good team of people helping me out that offered a lot of encouragement, council, advice, support and help and want to thank them all very much for making it happen.
Come to Philly! Now there's more to see than just the Liberty Bell (though most people never really go see that anyways) Oh yeah....anyone know how to fix a refrigerator?

Gay Rodeo

We went to the gay rodeo on Saturday.  It was really really hot.  The weather that is.  We got to see a bunch gay pants a goat and many just fall on their ass.  Connie has been wooed by the gay Polo team!  She may head out to the polo fields to check out a practice or two.   She says she's in it for the fashion, but watch a year from now Derby will be of the past and she'll be in the Advocate again- this time representing girls in polo.