Other Highlights From Visiting Arizona

Ed and I spent last Thursday through Sunday in Arizona, on a rare mutual trip away from home. What put the trip into motion was the chance to see Tina Turner on her final tour. (See the previous post.) But that wasn't the only fun thing we got to do.

In fact, this is where we return to our usual topic, Horse Talk.

* We got to stay with a longtime horse friend, Christy A., in the Scottsdale home that she's decorated to perfection in Western style.

* We met Mikey, our blind-horse-rescue co-conspirator, at a saloon in Cave Creek for lunch. She brought her little girl Mercy along, and it was fun to get to know both of them better. I think Mikey turned a few heads in her dress-up clothes.

* We went to dinner with Al Dunning, one of the 12 members of Team Horse&Rider. Al was fairly close to civilian that night, in a ball cap instead of his cowboy hat, and treated us to a great meal and an evening of good conversation at a Mexican restaurant.

* We indulged in some Western retail therapy, which is easy to do when you're in Cave Creek. It's a speciality of the town.

* We did a bit of horse-ranch sight-seeing while tooling around in the rental car. I'm always fascinated by horsekeeping setups in the desert!