Forward, Not foreword

Sharon and I collaberated tonight and I put an e in forward and spell check gave me foreword. I want FORWARD which is the opposite of backward. Not foreword which is the first part of a book. So FORWARD IS THE WORD FOR TOMORROW

A TEXTURE of a Friday

TEXTURE

I took this out of the windshield of the car a couple of weeks ago. I was sitting in the car at Safeway after church. Bob was in buying us each a maple bar like we do every Sunday. This just looked interesting to me. It seemed appropriate today.

The word tomorrow is FOREWORD.

Today was kind of grey but not too cold. Not as warm as some days have been but it was OK. I went out to mess with Rusty first thing. I changed her halter and put a different lead on her. We worked on several things and she is just about back to where I stopped working last August and September when I really felt crappy for a month or six weeks. I did her near side front foot lifted up and she let me hold it. The off side not so much but she finally did let me rub her shoulder and that was progress. Tomorrow is another day. The second time I worked with her later this afternoon I put a long rope on her to work with her. She will yield her rear end on both sides. Yield her shoulder on the near side and kind of on the other. When I put her hips toward the fence she will side pass beautiful away from me but not at all the other way. So we have made progress but lots more to make. Tomorrow I am going to try to get the surcingle on her. She bucked really hard when we saddled her last summer, I want to get that out of the way before we try to saddle her again.

The other horses are fine and dandy. I hope Katie will come tomorrow to clean stalls. Or, I will have to work at them. She is supposed to.

That was my day, have a great Saturday.

A GREEN Thursday

GREEN

I had a hard time finding what I wanted to take a green picture of. So when I found Rusty laying down with her green halter on in a round pen of green panels, I thought Yes this is it.

Tomorrow word is TEXTURE.

It did not take long at all to get the halter on Rusty. We ran off some spook off her doing a few laps changing directions and so forth. The I got her to stand and rubbed her neck. Put the lead rope around her neck and the first time she left. So, we did a few more directions and then she stopped and let me put the rope around her neck and then the halter on her. Well, then she just did what I wanted. She knew she had lost control. I petted her a big and then went up to the house to accomplish something inside. When I went back she let me walk right up to her. We did some despooking things and she did good. When she didn't spook and did what I asked she got a hunk of apple. Good girl. When Bob got home he went down and rubbed her neck and talked to her. She was glad to see him.

Then we went to the Mustang Horse Club meeting. We are going to have a ride on April 10th. Hope the weather is good. We are planning Mustang Days. We need to get going on it. A few different people are going to get some solid prices on arenas. Either of the first two weekends in June will be what we are aiming at.

Friday is a coming.

OBSTACLE WEDNESDAY

The OBSTACLE

Today that's the fog. It was starting to lift a little but still was there.

The word tomorrow is GREEN

Today I spent the afternoon with Rusty. I put her in the round pen and ran her around a few time changing directions ect. Then I tried to walk up to her. Didn't work the first time so back around she went. Tried again, back to work again. She is NOT afraid of me, just does not like me for some reason. The third or so time I could rub her neck. Then I gave her half an apple. So we worked like that for quite a while. You let me rub your neck and you will get a piece of an apple. I did not try to put the halter on her. I just had it hanging over my arm all the time. when I get the halter on her and can handle her more I will start getting the dreads out of her mane. It is about 36 or so inches long. I don't want to pull it out but I am not sure she will let me spray anything on it. I will keep working though. I love that face.

Thinking Thursday tomorrow. Stay tuned.

DROOPY TUESDAY

DROOPY

This little busy was droopy under the weight of the very wet snow we had yesterday. And the poor little truck someone left out there. The snow is about gone today.

OBSTACLE

That is the word for tomorrow

I had quite a time today and it really was my own fault but still not too much fun. When I went in to put Cody and Rusty in their pen for the night and to feed them, I did not latch the gate. I just closed it. Wrong thing to do. Rusty and Cody went in the pen just fine and Rusty went right straight to the gate and pushed it open with her chest and off they went on a romp around the barn and around, and around. I put their hay in their feeder and thought they would go in. Wrong again. The neighbor had been watching us run around the barn. Well they were running, I was walking. Wayman stood there and waved his arms at them when they came around the barn and guess what. They went right in their pen. He is not crazy about horses and he usually is not sober but he was this evening. I appreciated it a lot.
Remember only five more days to comment here on the blog to have an entry for the give away. The candle and candle holder are really cute. At least I think so. I love cardinals.

Hope your Wednesday is happy.

WILD Monday

WILD

She must have had an itch. I took this thru the window with my long lens. She wasn't too concerned about my stopping the car and sitting there.

Tomorrow's word is DROOPY.

Finally got my prescriptions all picked up today so think I will have a little more get up and go when the proper levels get where they should again. Sometimes my ideas about not taking them are not helpful.

Rusty is certainly a poop sometimes. She does not want to be a gentled horse very often. The weather has been so winter like she has not been worked a whole lot. BUT, she loves apples. She would do just about anything for an apple. She would not take them from me when I was in the pen until today. I told her she was not going to get an apple if she did not take it from me when I was in the pen with her. She finally did. She got three or four halves of apples from my hand. Cody was jealous but he got some too. I think we may have found a key to getting thru to her. I hope so.

Yesterday after church and after visiting with the baby and his sister, we went to lunch at the Rusty Moose in Airway Heights. We received a gift card from our friends Terri and Kurt Carstens. Thank you so much Terri and Kurt. We have enough to go to breakfast sometime on the same card. You don't know how much we appreciate it. We will come and finish what we started in the spring.

We woke up to snow this morning. Just because I said we probably have some. Then it turned into rain and then it turned into heavy pea soupy fog. Winter.

Have a Tuesday better than today.

MOVEMENT on Sunday

MOVEMENT

What better example could there be. This is Coyote Ice Cream aka as Cody to me. He was having a good time.

Tomorrow's word is WILD

Me and Nathanial having a discussion. We stopped to visit after church today. He was wide awake and seemed to enjoy our conversation. We didn't solve any of the world problems but we talked about them.

Nathanial. Isn't he a dolly?

Papa Great having a good time with Liliana his big sister. She loves her Papa Great. Me, not so much but she does love him.

She wanted to come see the horses and this is how we had to leave her. Complete with a cowboy hat and shoes. She probably would not have gotten any further than the car but she thought she wanted to come with us. I felt so sad, almost cried with her.

Church was good this morning. The worship was awesome and the message gave us much to think about. God did not give us the spirit of fear but of power and love and a strong mind.

Please, all of you whether you know Andrea of Mustang Saga or not, pray for her sister Amy. Amy has breast cancer, has young children and found out her cancer has spread to her bone. I want to so bad do something to help that family out but at this point all I know to do is pray.

On that note, have a great Monday.