Pregnant Mare Rescue, Breakfast with the Babies.

I don't know what I could have included in my morning to make it any better. Today was the fundraising breakfast for a local horse rescue group near Santa Cruz. The stars of the pancake breakfast are pictured below.

Hard to imagine that, without the intervention of : Pregnant Mare Rescue

this mare would not have been around to produce this elegant foal.

Baby needed a snack, before settling down for a rest.

Like all babies, this one tried to resist falling asleep until she couldn't hold her head up one more minute.

On the way to the event, there was a roadside floral rainbow with a box to put money in, (honor system) to buy a bouquet. I came away with a huge bunch of sweet-peas. I love their perfume.

Inescapable Pancakes!

I am tired and grumpy. We have house guests who flew in from France yesterday so we already did one major dinner - on a Monday night no less! Between the wine I consumed and having jet-lagged people wandering around talking on the phone at 4 am. I am not my perky self today. Now we add in Fat Tuesday and the French hankering for "Crepes" this evening, plus a premonition of what my kitchen will look like after husband has spread flour and eggs everywhere, and you get the picture. I almost hope he really does burn us down tonight. We have a family motto that has stuck over the years: If there's no Fire and no Flood how can you call it a party?