The blessing of the animals

The blessing of the animals
Originally uploaded by ancho and lefty.

I rode this horse to mass in order to have it blessed by the priest afterwards. I gave someone my camera to snap shots of the actual blessing part, but he did not really have the camera controls under control. The photos are off center and of my thigh and part of the horse. This is not the best photo of me, but it proves that I did it! I also ran with this horse with my neighbor, Marixa, who owns both horses that were blessed. It was just the two of us riding. She had more confidence in me than she should have, but I did not fall off! Her horses received a blessing as did a bird, several dogs, some chickens, some eggs, and a couple of old Toyota Trucks. Someone also had their orange trees blessed. There were guitars playing and mass chaos and my horse sort of freaked out for a second, but I kept my cool (somehow). Needless to say, I did not bring my bastard bat friends along to be blessed. I wonder if you can have such spawn of satan blessed in the first place.

I can honestly say of this event that I wish you were here!