Marquis

About 7 years ago I saw a picture of Marquis on Dreamhorse message forum. In fact it was this picture I saw...

I instantly fell in love with him and emailed his owner, Linda Harper of Needville, TX. We emailed back and forth and became friends. It wasn't long before I decided that someday I would have an Arabian and when I did it would be a Marquis baby.

In 2003 I put a down payment on MM Diamonds N Pearls, aka Pearl, who was then a yearling. Two short payments in I was injured at work and had to back out. I was afraid Linda would be mad at me for breaking our agreement and I laid low for a few years.

In 2006 I decided I was ready and approached Linda about arranging a breeding. Another friend of ours conveniently had a VERY nice Arabian mare headed to Linda's for boarding so we got together with her and got things in motion. I bought the baby before it was even bred for and waited what seemed like forever for the baby to make an appearance.

In March of 2007 a beautiful little filly was born. MM China Doll was a perfect little grey carbon copy of her daddy and I was tickled pink. Thanks to Linda's superb and dedicated photography skills, I was able to watch her grow up in pictures while I waited for weaning time so she could make the trip from Texas to Kentucky.

About a month before China was due to be weaned, Linda dropped the bomb that she was retiring from breeding and offering Marquis for sale! As soon as the world quit spinning and I could breathe again, I emailed her and in a few hours of discussions we had a deal made for me to bring home not a pretty little weanling filly but her gorgeous father instead!

Marquis made the trip from Texas to Kentucky in December of 2007 and my world has never been the same. He is everything I ever dreamed of and more and I am so grateful to Linda for allowing me to the awesome responsibility and privelage of sharing my life with him.

Thank you my friend!

Here is Marquis' pedigree.
Pictures!

Happy Tuesday!!

Hey two days in a row I'm posting! Boy we are on a roll here. I love Tuesdays because the knitting group gets together on Tuesdays. I don't make it as often as I would like to but tonight I actually get to go YAY! Like I mentioned yesterday, my sweet and wonderful husband got me knitting. I have wanted to learn to knit for a long time but I honestly do not remember ever actually mentioning it. Well for Christmas Sean got me a ball of yarn, a pair of sticks and a gift certificate for knitting lessons! It was AWESOME! I played with it for a while, finally figured out how to get started, found the group and started hanging out with them and by the time I actually got around to taking the class I was already doing pretty good. The knitting group has been great, I have really had a blast and learned a LOT from them.

Here are some knitting group relevent links:
Rebelle - the awesome yarn shop where Sean got my stuff and where I took my lessons
SNB-Lex - the Lexington Stitch-N-Bitch email list

A little more about me

Ok so I guess I should try to get your interest so you will subscribe to my blog, wanting to keep up with the juicy details of my life right? HA. Some people would say my life is boring and wouldn't rate a low budget made for tv movie, others would say it's a soap opera worthy of usurping NBC's best.

In reality it's somewhere in between. Here is me in a nutshell...32yrs old, recently married (for the first and only time), no kids (yet), animal lover - have horses, dogs, rabbits and chickens and soon a goat! I work full time for TwinSpires.com - the online wagering site for Churchill Downs (yet we can't offer wagering on Churchill. I know, I know, it doesn't make much sense to me either, all I know is I am tired of getting chewed out for it when it's NOT MY FAULT. We WANT to offer wagering on Churchill, the KHPA won't LET us. Just like the Florida Horseman's group won't let us offer wagering on Calder, which Churchill also owns. NOT MY FAULT! Hollering at US for it is like calling the Nestle Chocolate plant and screaming at them because your favorite store doesn't carry the Nestle baby formula (or does, depends on which side of the fence you are on hehe). AAAARRRGGGHHH!!! Ahem...anyway, sorry...)

Ok so you got the basic stats. Some of my interests include knitting (a lovely hobby my wonderful husband helped get me interested in), writing (though I haven't done so in quite a while), animals (duh), music, internet, and much much more. I am so ecclectic it's almost ridiculous.

And I got busy working and lost my train of thought. I will come back to this later.

The beginning of the end?

I have no idea how this will turn out lol. I am looking at it as sort of an online diary. My thoughts and ideas but not the most personal ones, only Sean gets to hear those lol. Anyway, we shall see what this morphs into, maybe I will make an attempt at the type of writing we did in my college English class. I can't remember what it's called, but it's when you just spit out whatever comes to your mind, letting your mind take over and spit out whatever it wants. That could be scary lol. Anyway, welcome to my life!

ETA: BRAINSTORMING! Of course that's what it's called, sheesh. Thanks Kim!

Michelle