Well, despite a few hiccups, we're still moving steadily towards our closing, which is scheduled for a week from Tuesday (yep, Halloween!). We've secured our homeowners' insurance, and have sent a flurry of faxes back and forth with our mortgage company, getting all the necessary paperwork completed. The people we've been working with are absolutely amazing - fast, helpful, continually going above and beyond to help us get in this house and understand the process. They work nationally, so anyone who's thinking of looking for a home, let me know and I will give you the names of the guys we've been working with. I really can't recommend them enough.
We do have one prayer request. We've been trying to get the septic system inspected by a specialist, but have so far not been able to find one who will travel out to our area! Even the realtor has been unsuccessful in finding someone to come out. So, you can pray that we will be able to find someone who will travel to this area and is able to come this week, so we can proceed with our closing.
In other news, I took several training horses to a show today along with a couple other girls from the barn, and they were all wonderful! I rode a huge grey quarter horse/thoroughbred cross who is at the farm so we can train him to jump and win. He is very fancy but can also be explosive. Thankfully, he was wonderful and really settled in as the day went on. Galen showed a pony that I started just two months ago. He jumped his first jump last week, cantered a jump for the first time yesterday, and ended up competing in six jumping classes today! We discovered that he has incredible natural talent over fences, and he won ribbons in two of his classes (out of 30 entries!). He was amazing! We also took two other horses that have only been jumping for about a month, and they were both great - very brave to the fences, trying hard for their riders, and doing extremely well for their age and experience level. We'll be going to one of these shows every month during the winter, so hopefully everybody will just keep getting better.
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The show sounded great and your training horses are really performing above and beyond expectations. I think you must be learning well from Jamie's expertise!
We're praying for the house. I can't wait to come and visit you in your own new home. Have you asked Auntie Mary about the septic people. I know they had a whole new leach field dug and new tank put in a few years back. Maybe they'd have a lead.
Hugs, M
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