Its still raining

The round pen is complete, now to get the panels up so I can get Sage into it. I have some ideas about how to work with her there. I had a long chat today with George Gouvas who is doing one of the Demos at Mustang Days at Busy Bee the 26th and 27th. He is doing a couple of hours on Saturday. He has a South Steens mustang named Blade. He wanted to see the facility and what he needed. He is bringing 2 horses besides Blade.
Back to some old photos. I love them. Me at about 7 I think. I had long, very long blonde braids.

A fourth of July picnic in our yard in 1951. That is the year I thought I would be smart and hold a firecracker to light it. Well, I did not throw it fast enough and it blew up in my hand. Gollllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy gee that hurt. No scars though amazingly enough. I learned never ever to do that again.

I think my sister posted this picture on Face Book a while ago. Sharon and I and our cousins Jerry, Cynthia and Donna and the dog Flicka.

The rain has seldom let up today. So, I did not get to work Sage at all. Dang nab it anyway.

I leave tomorrow to work at a horse show in Okanagan. If you are not from here it is in the central part of the state up north a ways. I sure don't want it to rain but I don't want it to be scalding hot either. Used to go to that show when I was showing and it can be really hot. Passed out at the show once just as I was getting off my horse. I must remember to drink lots of water and not Diet Coke which is my drink of choice.

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Sunshine and Petunias

A few more pictures of the adoption and then some really old pictures.

The little roan is a sweet young horse who had been handled. Tracey took him home but hopes to find the boy that wanted him and came back for him after she left. It will work out. That horse is going to make someone a wonderful horse.
A pen of horses. I don't remember where the others are from but the palomino was from Paisley. She was the only one in that pen not adopted. She had a little attitude that she displayed but she is a well put together horse.

Jamie working the sorrel. She was not adopted either. Jamie would have taken her but she left and they could not do it over the phone. So she went back to Burns. She is 2.

My sister Sharon and our cousin Jerry. They were very close growing up. Sharon is 6 days older than him. He walked Sharon down the aisle when she got married because our father had died a few years before.

Sharon and I in Algona, WA which is close to Auburn. We were 4 and 2 about I think.

Sharon and our cousins Cynthia and Donna. I think they were singing.

Loved looking at the old pictures. I was looking through them today. A gazillion of Sharon and I at all stages of our growing up years.

My round pen is ready but I need some panels moved over there to get her moved. I am excited to be able to really work her. Today Sage was more like herself before I left on my trip. I rubbed her shoulder and her neck and she even let me rub her cheek and under her chin. I was so happy. She was more relaxed and softer this time. Maybe tomorrow I will get some pictures. It is good to be able to report some good news. I was getting a might discouraged.

Today I bought a bunch of flowers to plant - mostly petunias. I wanted some pretty flower beds. It is supposed to rain tomorrow so I wanted them in the ground before then. I am disappointed that I don't have a garden this year besides the tomato's and peppers. Another year.................................

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I Am Home

This was one of the better adoptions that we have been too. There were 17 out of 33 adopted. I loved this big black mare. Don't remember where she was from. She could very well be pregnant. She was adopted. I loved her look.

There were a group of youth that got yearlings for a 90 day competition. It is called YaY (youth and yearling). Most of them were not quite a year old I don't think. The kids were glad to see their babies. I judged their event last year and the kids did awesome with them.

This was a three year old mare. She was so quiet. She would come up to the fence and smell your hand. She was adopted by a girl for a 4H project. If I had been going to adopt a horse, she would have been my first choice.When they loaded her, she was very quiet in the chute and just let them put the halter on her.
This is Greg. He drives the big BLM truck a lot of the time. He is a character. He loves what he does. We had dinner with him and a group the other BLM guys and he cracks me up.

My friend Tracey who does so much for the mustangs. She may not be my good friend if she sees this. She didn't know I took it.

Jaime Thomas did the gentling demo with a 2 year old filly. She did a good job. There were about a hundred people there watching.

There were several young pinto horses, both filly's and geldings from Paisley. I wonder if they are related to Sage. This little girl didn't get too excited in the chute but she did not want the halter on her.

Katie, one of the YaY yearlings pretty excited about her filly. She named her Beamer's Blue Moon. She will do a great job. She was touching her face while the filly was still in the chute.

This was Morgan getting her YaY yearling. I think she got a filly too. I believe hers had a blaze on her face. She is excited too.

When we left Longview Sunday morning we went up to Marysville to our Grandson Dustins birthday dinner. He is the oldest of Nikki's 6 boys. He is a handsome guy and girls he is single.

Isn't that ugly. Nikki went to the Gorge (if you aren't from WA, it is a large amphitheater overlooking the Columbia River and it has all sorts of concerts and events there) to a Joe Crocker and Tom Petty concert on Friday night. They rarely get to do things like that and she fell on her way to the restroom and ended up in the ER in Quincy with is the closest little town. She was stone cold sober too. They came in the her ER space to see the sober person that got hurt. Apparently it had been a busy night for the non sober. It hurt her so bad. Her birthday is in 10 days so we took her her birthday gift to her too.

Today I worked twice with Sage and I finally got to scratch her neck. She let me after rubbing her with the stick for a while. She did swing her butt at me a couple of time and I swatted her with the stick and told her no. She got the message. You have 3 seconds to make them think you are going to kill them and then just go back to being nice and pretend it did not happen. I should be able to use the round pen by Wednesday. I am anticipating making good progress then.

The girls got our bedroom painted over the weekend. Now to get the floor layed so we can get back in there. Now to get the kitchen ready to paint. Oh girls...............I will need your help.

Its been a good day. I took a little nap and have been working on house stuff. I would have rather been outside all day but my maid didn't show up. LOL

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Now the eye is black

Katie came out today and gave all the kittens baths. They looked kind of like drowned rats but they were all happy when it was over and they were clean and sweet smelling again. Hope we can find homes for them - they are all up for give away. They are litter box trained and eat good.

I just got out of the shower and washed my hair to get the last of the blood out. I looked in the mirror at my forehead and eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek. My right eye is black. Isn't that going to be a sight at the mustang adoption this weekend.

Andrea, if you think her hind feet are awful, I should have gotten her front ones in the picture. They are gross and if we can't get her to the point of picking up her feet soon, we will drug her. They are beyond gross actually. I sure wish you could come this weekend too but family is most important. Be thankful you have living grandparents.

Just a day

My tomato and pepper plants. So much rain has fallen that they are just kind of sitting there. I am so hungry for a fresh ripe tomato.
This is the mare we have in for training. She is 5 or 6 years old - a Kiger mare that has never been handled. Just been a brood mare for mule babies. Her feet are horrid and we need to get her gentled so that can be done before we worry about anything else. She is very aggressive and does not want to be gentled any more than she has been. She will take grass out of my hand but touching her is another story.

This is what Sage does when I try to get close to her. The pen is just too small to work that big horse in.

Fatty Amelia. She is on a dry lot diet. She was so thin when she came but now, no way. She does not like being in there but for her welfare, that is where she is.

Out bottle baby calf Jack. He thinks I am his mother. He has graduated from a bottle to a nipple bucket because I was not taking 3 bottles to the barn. Or running back and forth mixing more.s He is a cute guy - reminds me of George that we had 2 or 3 years ago.

My head is healing fine. It just is a big red blob now. We went to Walmart this morning and people looked at me strange. I did a bad thing and did not call Nikki or Christy last night. I have apologized. I really was just disgusted with myself.

So, that's life on Calico Acres Farm. Have a gazillion things to do tomorrow before leaving for Longview and the mustang adoption this weekend. I am excited to get to go up and see Nikki on Sunday on our way home and celebrate her and Dustins birthdays.

Blessings.

COWS!

This is what happens to ones forehead when you are one side of a pipe panel trying to make the cow move and she hits the panel when ones forehead is close. Nothing to stitch but I do have a concussion and my head is sore. I will survive. But it hurt like bloody thunder and lots of blood. I did have a CT scan and the doctor said it was a sure thing - I had a brain. LOL

Bob was driving his route yesterday and this house is where he picks up one of the packets and he saw these Grossbeaks at the feeder. Aren't they pretty.

My horse activities got curtailed today when I was helping with getting the cows into the chute to be branded, shots, and wormed. One got done, that was the end for today. He told me I was fired. LOL.

Most of the rest of the day was spent in the ER. It scared Bob worse than me. I did not like all the blood and the pain but I knew I was OK. So that is my exciting day. Whoopie.

Sunny Day

I will try this again. I have tried to get these up loaded and published three times now. I don't know why the computer has such a problem with me at the helm.Our grandson Robby and his daughter - our great granddaughter Kiyanna May Williams. She is sixteen months old. They live out of town so we have only seen her once before.

Kiyanna. She is going to have a baby sister in October. Tabby and Robby are going to have their hands full. Tabby and Robby are young but they are doing well.

Our grand daughter Coreen Louise Williams graduated from high school on Saturday morning. We are all so proud of her. She is our late son's daughter and Scott would be so proud of her. Robby is Scott's son and Kiyanna is his first grandchild. I know he is looking down from heaven just bursting his buttons. Coreen had a terrible time getting thru high school and we are so proud of her for sticking with it and graduating. She left yesterday to move to Auburn with her half sister Emily. Emily seems to be pretty stable so I hope it will be a good move for Coreen.

Grandpa and Coreen. I don't know why neither of them was smiling. We are really proud of you Reenie.

I did not get to go and it was a difficult decision but everyone understood. A good friend of mine that is also a Horse Show Steward had a family emergency and she called me Thursday AM and needed me to work for her. Her husband had to have emergency bladder surgery for a blockage and it sounded pretty serious. I just could not tell her no. I had a good weekend and made some money to compensate.

Maybe tomorrow I will get back to the Mustang portion of my blog. Until then..........

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