She still has the old Appaloosa, but at 22 it is slowing down, and she isn't willing to slow down with it. She still wants to run good times in her gymkhana events, so she was looking to buy a young horse. She rode it several times at the seller's ranch, and then conservatively in a competition, and it did fine. But then about three weeks after bringing it home to her stable, it started getting antsy. A lot of "experts" have said that it can be hard for a young horse that has been raised out in an open paddock in the country to adjust to all the horses, people, noise, lights, etc. at a busy stable. Anyway, she mounted up, and just as her butt touched the saddle it did a full rodeo buck and launched her into the air. She lost a lot of blood through that open wound before the paramedic arrived.
Luckily, it came with a money-back guarantee, so it went back to the ranch.
She has a girl leasing the old horse now, and that girl treats it very well and isn't quite ready for competition anyway. When she is ready to ride again, she's going to look for a more mature horse, maybe around 10 years old, that has a lot of barrels experience.
I really don't know how much meat a fish yields out of total weight. In this case, I gave it to a friend to clean, and he kept half and gave me half. I just vacuum packed it, and its going to last quite a while.
The MPAs haven't been a problem for me in the areas I dive since the Department of Defense told them they couldn't put one off Camp Pendleton Marine Corp Base, which occupies about 20 miles of coast line. But shore divers have taken a big hit by loosing the entire coastline of Laguna Beach, and there are serious impacts in the Palos Verdes and San Diego areas. I'm just fortunate that I almost never travel that far anymore.
