all i want for christmas

Stopped up at Fair Hill this morning to check in on Veiled Reference. She's looking good, eating well, as you can see above, and didn't seem too bothered by the interruption. Tim said she's up to jogging two miles each morning, most of the time on the dirt track, which gets a good deal less traffic than the Tapeta. Apparently, she's been much more aggressive in her training, so it's better for everyone involved if she has less horses around to chase after. Hopefully, she'll get plenty of that kind of action down the road. Vet reports that she continues to heal up nicely. Plan is about another month of jogging before picking up the pace heading into the fall. Kate doesn't know that her Christmas bounty depends on VR's return schedule and I'm not sure I've got the heart to fill her in. Fast forward to Rudolph time in a few months when I'm opening my XBox 360 and she's ripping into a bag of new hair clips that I picked up for her, and she'll probably make the connection. Figure I'll get her back with a big Valentine's Day, or maybe just wait for her birthday in the spring.

Sorry about the sideways video. I have no idea how to rotate it, so your best bet is to lay your head down on the desk and watch. Be sure to have a creative answer at the ready when your boss comes by and gets on you again for sleeping on the job. Maybe something about still reworking your sleep schedule from the Olympics would work.