Sore and aching Saturday

This is Melissa with her black Wyoming mustang. I can not remember the horses name. I think its an Indian name. I asked her so many times I am embarrassed. She was a new rider with us today. Welcome Melissa. This person is Terri. She did not ride a mustang but a beautiful buckskin Missouri Foxtrotter. She was new to us today too. Welcome. They came with a friends dad Charlie. He rode a grey arabian cross mare. We welcome theme to the groupl It was fun and when I had ridden all I could and had to walk a way, Charlie got off and walked with him. I appreciated that so much.We stopped to eat lunch in the shade. We rode 12 miles. In the heat and I think it was a little much for all of us. Other than being sore I think the only near wreck we had was John on Cisco. Cisco had a tantrum and laid down with John on his back. John is Andrea's husband. We were glad to have him join us too.

Laura Richards and her horse Danny. He is a big QH. She has been part of our group for a while.

Bob Andrea and John at lunch. I think that is Melissa off to the left. We were so happy to have Mike and Jo Cameron ride with us. We had not seen them in a long time. They ride Tennessee Walkers. I think there were 10 of us. A nice ride on a hot day. I hope my aches have gone by tomorrow morning.

Katie rode Pepper because we could not catch Abby. She was going to meet us there. I have made a major decision I think. I am thinking of finding a home for Dixie. She pony's packs and nothing spooks her. She has way too much energy for me at my age. I really prefer to ride Pepper and plod along. She is easy to rode if she is ridden more. Then she settles down and is a great horse. She crosses water, goes anywhere you point her. Its just her energy level is so high when she is not ridden often and my old body needs the plugging along.

Remember: Beautiful young people are accident of nature - but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel old tonight but don't know about the work of art. Have a blessed Sunday.

Friday June 12th.

Dustin, know on Nikki's blog Life With Boys - I wrote it wrong the other day. Don't know where my brain was = Heir Aparant - Dustin turns 26 today. I can hardly believe he is that old. This picture was taken on my birthday when I was at Nikkis after her surgery. He was bbq'ing my birthday dinner in the rain. When she asked me what I wanted and I said burgers, I did not know it was going to downpour. He did it for me. Such a sweet boy. I called him on his cell phone today and sang happy birthday to him and left it as a message. Its tradition. Happy Birthday sweet boy (young man) Today our siding arrived on a big truck. I hope they had delivered other siding. A huge truck for what they put on the ground would be kind of hysterical.

I think the young man driving the truck though I might be a little wacky when I was clicking pictures while he put the truck thru its paces. We have decided to make more changes than just siding the house and the ugly porch. We are going to put a door in the kitchen where the window out to the deck was. I have wanted that for a while. Besides, we are removing the deck and making a patio instead.

I don't think we can afford to pour a cement one this year after siding. So, gravel it will be. We will have a small back porch and a small area coming out the new door both with stairs down to the patio. We may use paver stones of some kind. I got most of the stuff off the deck today. Bob needs help to get the bbq off. The things I had painted purple, I am going to paint bright yellow. I am excited about it. Sunday we will go to the Ugly Duck store and see if they have a door like we want. Or like I want anyway.

I wonder what he would have done if Bob had not been here to help him unload it. I wanted to open one and see the color of it. However, just as I was gathering my camera back up and getting ready to go out the door a huge bang of thunder sounded, and i headed back inside rather quickly. I hate, I said I HATE thunder and lightening. So the color reveal will have to wait for another day. It rained like mad for a while but has quit now. This storm cell seems to have gone on to harrass someone else.

Tomorrow we have a Mustang Horse Club ride planned for Riverside State Park at 10 AM. I hope it does not storm in the morning. If its not so hot that will be good. I am going to ride Dixie. I have my stuff all laid out. Tomorrow I will have pictures of us riding.

Remember: Never do today what you can put till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light to what is best to be done.

Aaron Burr.

Have a clear view and have a nice Saturday.

Thursday

This is Ryan he "graduated" from 6th. grade today. He is on the honor roll, got a music award, and an award for placing high in the WASL. We are proud of him. It was a nice program even if it was hot and stuffy in there. Then they served ice cream bars and popsicles.

We went into town today again and I got some flowers. I think I have them just about filled up now. The planters. My head is working faster than my fingers. I got yellow African Daisies and some yellow Margarite Daisies. Our yard is such a mess this summer. We are having to remove all the turquoise trim off the house. And its full of spiders underneath it. I am working on the lower level. Bob does not want me to climb a ladder. The siding will arrive tomorrow. I think Steve will be here to get things laid out however it is he wants it. He also is finishing the well house for his dad.

I am so mad at AT&T. If we did not have a cell phone contract with them I would change to Verizon. Christy - our daughter in law - has worked for them for almost 2 years. She had kidney stones last week and had to wait a few days for them to pass. It was very painful. She missed 5 days of work. She was in the middle of a training program for some changes and they fired her yesterday because she did not finish the training in their time frame even though she had paperwork from the doctor. They are struggling with both of them working and now she has to find another job. She got her degree in accounting 2 years ago with a 3.75 GPA and I think she needs to find something like that. That is what she went to college for and was on the Deans List.

So, this was our day. Nothing too exciting - did watch a mama magpie teaching her babies to fly. They were cute.

Remember: A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt.

Wednesday

Cody just standing there. His owner came our today and worked with him a bit. Old Cody has been fibbing to us about what he knows and what he doesn't. He truely loves Bonnie and I don't think she will let him go to anyone when we get him going. After he went to that "trainer" that did nothing he regressed and we just have to get him back to where he was. Bonnie sat on him once and he did not explode like that guy said he did. So we know about where he is in his training. I will be glad when I can really get into this. I miss getting in and working up a sweat with the horses.

This is a picture I could not find yesterday of Bryant. We are still proud of him today and will be. Nikki -at her blog Nikki and her boys - calls him Skater Dude. I call him sweet.

A good day. Bob went to Yakima today for work. Now he has the rest of the week off and the first 3 days next week. He did not get back in time to turn in what he went after. Locked up in our back yard is a Kia full of hand held computers. $500,000 worth. I think we will both sleep lightly.

PT was better today. Jeff did not try to move my shoulder blade. In fact it feels better than it has for a while. Now if I could just go and get a good massage and a pedicure I would think I was in seventh heaven.

Remember: It is important to make your personal environment as comfortable and uplifing as possible. Look foreward to a grand Thursday.

Thankful Tuesday

I have been searching my pictures for a picture of our grandson Bryant. Today I am thankful for Bryant Thomas Williams Edgerton. He is 18. The school system failed him completely and he dropped out of high school. Everyone just shook their heads but he said he would go get his GED. Alot just shook their heads. But he did it. Today on Nikki's blog she said he had passed all the tests and was now officially a high school graduate. We are so proud of you Bryant. He is such a smart and talented young man. We love you.

Went to PT today and I thought he was ripping my shoulder off. Or out. That is the place that is responsible for my neck pain. So tomorrow I got back and get beat up some more. He told me to leave the horses alone today. So I did. Hate that.

Bonnie is coming tomorrow to see Cody. He has settled down so much. He is so beautiful.

Remember: Truely nice people are happy people. Hope you have a happy Wednesday.

Monday

I had pictures on the camera that I was going to post tonight but had a little drama with Katie this afternoon and I did not get to the computer with them.

However, I do work with Cody for a time and he forgot he knew whoa so we worked on that. He was much better about his off side though. I did put the saddle pad on him and he was really nervous about it on his back. He did not mind my waving it around and he smelled it and tasted it but it made him nervous up there. We will continue to work on that. He does stand tied well. I just looped the rope around the hitch rack and he stood there like a real gentlmen. I even left him there and went to the barn to get a couple of treats. He was happy about that.

I worked with Rusty a while too. She is definately a strong willed horse. She thought the saddle pad would eat her and did not like it at all. I worked a while and she took it better. I did lead her quite a ways out of her pen or the round pen. That was progress. Time time time.

Remember: Every moment you are alive is a chance for a new beginning. Happy Tuesday to you all.

Sunday

This going to be short again because I am yammering at the blasted computer. I swear, on my list of things this summer, a new computer is among them. I need help getting ready though and I asked Jim Spring to come. I will gladly pay him to get this ready.

I worked with Cody today. I learned that he knows how to lunge. Better on a lunge line than free but we worked on that. He knows whoa to the left but to the right he is not so reponsive. I learned that I can touch him all over with the lunge whip, wrap the string around all over. Better on the right than left and I could touch him with the white flag all over again on one side better than others. He did not understand giveing his rear end but got it OK after a bit. He did not know pivoting on the front end but got a couple of good crossovers both ways. He leads well. He would stop when I stopped and walk off with me when I moved my shoulder foreward so he has had some good ground work. We will need to work on that off side and see what he does with a saddle pad. I worked with him about 45 minutes. I would have done more but was afraid he would pull my shoulder. My goal this week is to tie at the hitch rail and get as good with the off side and to put a saddle pad on him. I forgot to take my camera down there so no pictures.

Oh, and our grandson Joel found my cell phone. Now I have 2. I am going in and have my good one reactivated tomorrow on the way to PT and have the other for a spare if this happens again. I was stuffed down and behind in the truck.

Kind of a lazy day. We went to church and I lay around all afternoon. Bob got in a load of hay. We got some really nice grass hay from someplace in Greenbluff. Two of our grandsons went and helped him. Ryan is a husky 12 and Joel is an adult. It was good to have their assistance.

Remember - Hurrying becomes a habit - slow down and enjoy your Monday.