My retirement has really gone well, for the most part.  Robert and I got a beautiful condo down in South Miami Beach, overlooking the ocean and we spend our weekends enjoying going to Lincoln Road with all its great shops and restaurants and everything else that is so fun down there. Great beaches, beautiful people (and by that I mean LOTS OF HOT GUYS!), and waking up to looking out at the gorgeous Atlantic.

I still have my 2 “hobby horses” which I haven’t been able to ride since my back surgery 2 months ago, so I started helping my ex-student, Suzanne Lapporte, with her 2 horses in return for having lessons with me on mine. Then Tuny, the owner of the stables, asked if I would just help her a bit with her Grand Prix horse, Wild One, and I said sure. I mean, I was there anyway, right? And while sitting there I was seeing another friend, Liz, having a lot of problems with her stallion, which just kept “getting to me” until I finally said, “Why don’t you try such and such”, and then I ended up helping Liz too.

So finally Robert said, “you know that when your ‘real students’ get down here and hear you are teaching and they are not welcome, they are going to be hurt.” Which brings me to “Clinic Wednesdays”. I decided to tell all my friends that I would do one day of teaching per week and they could text me on each Tuesday and let me know if they wanted a slot.

So yesterday I taught my friends from 9am to 3pm and was truly exhausted afterward. That was the first time I had taught like that since last spring, but I did love seeing my friends and their horses.

And so now I will do ONE DAY per week of lessons for my friends. ONLY ONE DAY! You hear me, Robert Dover? ONLY ONE DAY!!!!!