SACABCOIN 2007

Friday 23^rd March

We spent the morning progressing finishing touches to the house….putting up shelf in the front bedroom, hanging pictures, espuma-ing tv wire sockets with polyurathane foam etc. J painted the upper bathroom Amarillo (yellow). Before we lunched, we collected the blind for the back bedroom, and after a delicious 7€ menu del dia ,returned home to fit the blind we ordered last week.

Unfortunately, it was 3cm too wide for the window….J’s measuring I hasten to add, so it has to go back to the ferreteria to 1.5cm to be cut off each side, if that is possible. I started to fit the terracotta lantern in the upper hall, which was quite tricky and fiddly. The fixing bracket then fell out of the hole in the ceiling, and I had to anchor it with espuma , which delayed filling until tomorrow.

We caught the 5.30 pm bus to Coin to the SacabCoin horse show, and had a leisurely wander round the show ground and stands, and had a drink and tapas with a German Doctor and his wife who asked to share our table, before the main show at 9 pm.

The show was fantastic, with a mixture of individual and group horse dressage displays, with the Andalucian military horsemen exercising amazing control over their horses, with controlled high stepping and leg crossing, and jumping in the air off their hind legs. Another display involved 20 or so mares and their foals. Hopefully the pictures and videos capture the atmosphere.