A Dismal Thursday

Guess I don't have to tell you a 3rd. day in a row we are going to Jenns tomorrow. Guess I should read what I wrote the day before. Sorry.

I still am working on Christmas sewing. It is proceeding pretty nicely. I have a big miss in my dining room though. Still not sure what we are doing for Thanksgiving. If the kids all have other plans I guess we will go out to eat. Us and Tyler. He is coming home Saturday. Have missed the young man.

Not anything in particular today. I did my usual hide out in the house when the butcher truck comes. I can eat the meat and enjoy it but can't stand to see them be butchered and all that goes with it.

Wednesday

I think I could have slept all day. Don't know why. I was lazy all day. I am so glad that Bob understands that I have days like this once in a while and lets me be lazy.

I did sew on the Christmas gifts for our grand kids. At least the younger ones. It doesn't take long but it does take me to sit down and do it. Not telling what because at least one mama reads this and I want everyone to be surprised. I am making all I can this year.

Poor Rusty still does not like the surcingle. She tolerates it on but does not want a saddle pad. Bob did not push it today, just the surcingle. No bucking, just looking like "I don't like it" We just will have to keep working with her. She still does like me too much.

Friday we are going to Rathdrum to help Jenn with her mustang Riley. She has had him for 6 months and can not touch him. I am a little discouraged with the amount of people telling her to give up and send him back. Bob and I will give her some help and be honest with her. I just hate people telling her to give up without ever seeing her or her mustang or how they communicate together.

My lazy day is catching up with me. It will be early to bed for me. Maybe a cup of hot cider and a good good for a while too.

Tuesday the l8th.

Another big buck out at the hospital. Not the same one, he was larger than this one. It is the height of rut and he didn't have time to stop and wonder what we were doing. Didn't so much as wiggle an ear at us. We drove thru there after we took our recycling to Medical Lake. It was such a nice day.

Bob messed with Rusty some and put the surcingle back on her. She though "Oh well" and just stood there. He did not try the saddle pad with it today like he thought he might. That is reserved for tomorrow I guess.

Friday, noonish, Bob and I are going over to Rathdrum and help Jenn with her mustang Riley. So many on the Yahoo site have given her a lot of information but she needs some hands on help. We certainly are not experts but we do have a lot of experience. Have never met her except on the i/net but she needs help and we are close. As in closer than Kansas or California. Actually its about 35 or 40 miles and will do that happily. So we will go with our boots for the mud, gloves, a flag and a 30' rope.

I am glad the horses got a reprieve but will feel better when I know where this lady is going to put 30 plus thousand horses. I am trying to respond with reason and not emotion but its tough when you love them all so much.

Monday, November 17

Rusty and her crow hop at the cinching up of the surcingle. She objected but just crow hopped about 3 jumps and then stood there. Bob worked her a while and then she just stood there. He pulled on it, tightened it up a little and she just stood there. He took the long line off and chased her around a few laps each way and then on the line for a while and then put her away with the surcingle still on. He left it on for a while. tomorrow he will put a saddle pad under it. We will see how she does then. Much better than yesterday.

Just a day of cleaning house and unpacking etc. Maybe tomorrow I will be able to get out and do somethings. Bob went to the stockyards today to see how prices were. No selling our steers yet anyway. We do so much better selling them butchered as meat. We have 2 going to freezer camp this week sometime.

Sunday and I am home

My pictures of the convention would not be too pertinent to the blog except we passed step 2 of getting the mustangs added to the breed roles at Washington State Horsemen, I had to present the proposal and the Friday, Horse show Division meeting. the proposal had to include our purpose, eligibility, a list of supporters of the proposition, who would provide the year end award and who would be the division director(I nominated myself because I was the only one there). They accepted it and then I had to present it to the general membership this morning. they accepted it. Now the 3rd. step is in January when the executive board totally ratifies it. It sounds like a long process but worth it.

My sisters son in law's brother committed suicide today. He was very close to the family too and they are all shaken. It is so sad when someone lets one moment in a life cause a person to do something so devastating to everyone left behind. He leaves behind a VERY devastated brother besides his two daughters who he raised by himself and two small grandchildren who now won't have the opportunity to have a Papa. Its a sad sad story.

Bob cinched up the saddle on Rusty today before I got home. He said she can really buck. She got the saddle off and Bob will have some repair to do. Tomorrow he will put the surcingle on her to see if she does better. She had accepted it for a couple of times. NOT TODAY. He said it was really a rodeo. He hit the fence. I laughed and wished I had been here with a camera. He had been so proud of himself with her being so calm. LOL

It has been a long day. But a totally uneventful drive both ways. The roses are still blooming around the hotel and the view of the river was beautiful. Too bad I did not get a chance to experience it too much. Lots of meetings and visiting with friends you don't get to see often and drooling over the stuff the vendors had. I could have bought a new saddle, new saddle pads, new boots, all kinds of tack, jewelry, etc, etc. etc.

Windy Wednesday

What my hubby did all morning. He and Skeeter were enjoying a rainy, windy afternoon. All the while I was cleaning the kitchen. Oh well. He earned it though. He went down to work with Rusty in the drizzle and wind. I might have thrown in the towel. But he had a saddle on her today. He did not cinch it up but she just seemed to say Oh well, whatever. Now if I had gone in it would have been different but that is OK. Not a day to be doing too much with the horses.

We have having a terrific wind storm along with the incessant rain. It woke me in the middle of the night it blew so hard. So you see Andrea, its not any better here than there. I do get tired of the grey dismal days.

Yesterday morning our land line phone was not working. Bob messed with the line off and on all day. It still did not work this morning. I was sitting at the sewing machine and suddenly the phone rang. It was a salesman but I didn't care. That meant I could get my computer to work. No telephone land line, no computer. It has done this 2 or three times now. Maybe Bob will work on it while I am gone the rest of the week. I leave in the morning for the Washington State Horsemen convention in Richland. I will be home Sunday. If they have a computer in the lobby somewhere I may be able to write here but if not Sunday night is when you will hear from me again.

Oh yes, our daughter Nikki is home and doing better. She had to have blood but is doing better in her own home and her own bed. Thanks for your prayers.

No rain Whoopeeeeeeeeeeee

This is our sweet gentle Liberty. She is the 9 year old mare that the neighbor went to Wyoming and left with us. He did send some money for hay for her this winter. She is as gentle as can be but is not broke to ride. Tyler was on her once but that is all. She did nothing but stand there and I know she will do fine if anyone will be consistent with her. We haven't had time and Tyler does not seem to understand the necessity to follow up. He does love on her often and that is important too.

Our daughter had her surgery today and is doing well this evening. She expected it to be day surgery but not so. She is there for a day or two. Her husband has been faithful to call us periodically during the day. I hope to talk to her in the morning. I did get to talk to my sister this evening to tell her about Nikki. They have been on a little trip to Mississippi for their only granddaughters 16Th. birthday.

All the horses are fine. I hate the mud but what can you do. They have shelter to get under but they don't seem to use it much. We are not the only ones with the mud problem though. Even our friends who train at an expensive barn have mud.