Monday

Ever had just a "blue" day with no particular reason. Thats what I am having. Nothing much going on, we had our first acorn squash from our garden for supper. The salad was all from our garden too. That makes me feel good. I also ground more zuchinne for the freezer. Who knew what one plant could produce.

Remember: Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our heart and we are never, ever the same. Author Unknown

Sunday

This is an update on Amelia day. Sharon asked for some new pictures and I took these about 2 hrs. ago.

She is doing very well. She is getting a chubby tummy. I would like her tail head to fill in a little more but all in all, shes wonderful

No the best eye picture I have taken but she has such a soft and gentle eye.

I should have brushed her and made her all buuuuuuuutiful but this is how she looks out in her private abode. Bright and Shiney

Just a sweet sweet horse. Thank you, thank you Dr. Doolittle for sponsoring her and helping us keep her.

I am making pickled beets this afternoon. Some neighbors down the road gave me a big bunch and we are not too crazy about them so decided to pickle them. Found a recipe to do just in the frig, not having to be canned so am trying it out.

Bob will be home sometime this evening. He got to Nikki's just fine but have not heard from him since. I did call him and ask him to be my alarm clock this morning. He called me at 7. I was already up though. I wanted to get the chores done before I went to church. We had another tiny blue egg this AM. This one is a little darker blue.

Hope you have had an awesome weekend.

Remember: Love cures people-both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Dr. Karl Menninger.

The Real Friday

This is the first itty bitty egg from the young hens Tracey got for us. It is the prettiest shade of blue but it doesn't show up too much. The color I am talking about. It wasn't a whole lot bigger than a large robins egg.

It was very cool today. No rain but the coolest day we have had for weeks and weeks. I had to wear a sweatshirt when I went outside. It almost felt good but the summer weather is returning the first of the week.

We worked Carstens horses again. Bob is coming along with Blondie. If I could lift the saddle up on Target I would have had her saddled tonight. So she got bumped with it and smelled it and I carried it around her. Picked up her feet and cleaned them out with a hoof pick. Her front feet that is. I used the rope to pick them up but dropped it and just held them with my hand and picked them out. She was pretty calm about the entire ordeal.

When I went to put out horses in this morning after I got up and around, Ditto came and put her head in my chest. I don't know that she has ever done that. I need to spend more time with the old girl. Then Yuma got jealous and wanted attention too. He is so funny. His personality has sure changed since we took him to the horse show and he got alot of attention. Love that donkey.

Remember: You must give time to our fellow men - even if its a little thing, do something for others - something for whichg you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. Albert Schweitzer

Friday

Friday was kind of grey today but no more rain. Rain is wonderful for our pasture but no so good for the farmers just getting started with harvest.

My knee still hurts but I did get around a little better today.I soaked in the bathtub a while ago so maybe that will help it. I would really like to know what I did.\

We went over to work horses this evening before Bob went to his Search and Rescue meeting. Blondie is much better. She is watching him with two eyes and moves softly away from him. He will work her tomorrow and then she will have the weekend off. Target let Rebecca walk right up to her and she brushed her all over. Maybe tomorrow we can get the saddle on her. I can't do it right now.

Bob is going over to Nikki's on Saturday AM to deliver some meat. Sunday he is going to go to some kind of a 50's reunion picnic of Puyallup High School and he wants to see our sister in law who is still in the nursing home. Then he will come home late. He has to work Monday AM.

Remember: I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. Edward F. Hale

Wednesday

Won't be too much of an entry tonight. Thunder is booming and the wind is blowing. Besides my knee hurts really bad. Don't know what I did but its yelling at me and sitting in a chair does not help it. Wish I knew what I did because I sure as heck would not do it again.

Bob went and worked Blondie today. She is getting better every day. He is working her with a pole now so he can stay out of reach of those hind feet. That white flag pops her every time she whales at it and its getting better. Rebecca wanted to work with Target. Bob showed her some things and she did that and was so proud of herself. I think she is about 12. Target is gentle and has never offered to kick or bite. Bobs leg has not turned purple like I thought it was goine to. Its still tender but he will recover.

Bob goes back to work tomorrow. He likes being home but we like the paycheck too. He works five days and then five off. He is job sharing and this gives each of them 2 long weekends a month.

Remember: Withing every advesity lies a slumbering possibility. Robert H. Schuller

Thankful Tuesday

Today, I am thankful for the pasture we found that was belly deep to the cows that we can get very reasonable for the next three months. That will keep us from haveing to start feeding hay soon. I am thankful for the cattle too. We manage to sell enough beef to do the extra things we want to do.

Our neighbors that came and hauled one load for us so we did not have to make two trips. Good friends and neighbors are a blessing.

Our truck and trailer getting ready to load. This is primarily our horse trailer but we use in for cattle too. Bob is out washing it out at this moment. We love our trailer and it was worth going to Colorado to get. We bought it off e bay believe it or not.

So, I am thankful for the pasture and the cows today. They allow us our mustang habit without pinching pennies so much.

Speaking of mustangs, Bob went and worked Blondie this afternoon. We ran out of time to go back this evening. She was a little calmer today he said. He is working her with the pole so he can stay out of range of those hind feet until she calms down. She took a swipe at the pole and got spanked. She looked at him like Oh dear it kicked me back. She will learn to keep her feet under her.

Those who read blogs know that Andrea's (Mustang Saga) sister is fighting breast cancer and today was her first chemo. Keep her (Amy) in your prayers. Their whole family too.

Remember: Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. Voltaire

Monday

I just love the grain fields this time of the year. Curt will start harvesting the end of the week. I think of the words of the song America - Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain.
This was "THE evening working with untrained, ungentled (sort of) horses. Target did wonderful. Blondie was jerking me around pretty good. She was really being naughty. So, we traded horses again. He was afraid I would get hurt. Well, he was trying to turn her to her bad side and she whirled and nailed him in both legs with her hind feet. He got out of her way so he really didn't get hurt, he will be black and blue tomorrow. She got worked hard for another hour until her attitude changed. She was really bad today, would not look at you, kept swinging her butt at you. Any way Bob will go over in the morning and work her again. Then we will go later and I will work Target. He will work Blondie again.
Bob went and got the facia stuff to finish the house. I am so excited for it to be really truely done. And tomorrow besides working horses the cows/calves get moved to a pasture up by Newport till October.
Remember: Do what you can with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
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