Famous Daisy

I told you I was going to tell you about Daisy's big day and I promise I didn't forget. On Friday, Daisy became a local school celebrity! Our school holds a big fundraiser for Relay for Life. Our school team promotes a big event that whichever teacher raises the most money will earn something or have to do something in front of the school. I haven't been on the team in the past - mostly because our church has a team also and I would feel guilty picking one over the other so I support both and do what I can.

Well we always seem to be the 'givers' of the school event team - in the past the 'money winner' has had to kiss a frog (gotten from the pond beside our little Cove House) and one teacher got to hang out in our VW Bus for the afternoon. This year, they had a western theme and the 'winning teacher' was going to have to ride a bucking bronco. Well, that quickly got downgraded to 'ride a horse' (for obvious reasons!). While trying to find said horse to ride, I was asked if we had a 'tame horse' that could be used. Um, of course we do! Daisy was chosen because she does very well in front of people (although never in front of that big of a crowd of crazy elementary school children). So Logan took off and brought her to school on Friday for the event.

She was a hit! Although the winning teachers (and principal and vice principal) only got led around by Logan (definitely for the best!) the kids loved seeing them up there and I was even (conned) into getting up there and seeing one of their teachers really ride. By then Daisy was VERY grumpy and threw a little fit in front of everyone with me on her but that was even better for the kids and I was able to trot her around a bit and show her off.

All in all it was a very successful event and Daisy made it to the front page of the paper! To see the article, go to : http://www.swvatoday.com/comments/relay_coming_around_again/news/2359/