What a day

Not a good day with the weather that is for sure. We only got about half the snow they predicted and a freezing rainy mist on top of it. Made it very difficult to walk. We did not put the horses out today it was so treacherous walking.

I only went out to go to the grocery store and to pick up some prescriptions. Bob drove me in his 4 x 4 SUV and we slid around. I wanted snow but I did not want rain on top of it. I wanted to be able to hitch my sleigh up behind Rosie and go flying along.

I just listened to our president speak at the Memorial Service in Tucson. I am not a democrat but I did think his speech was outstanding. Leave the rhetoric and finger pointing alone and let people heal. Crazy people do unspeakable things. (mho)

I am cleaning out drawers and closets and finding all sorts of things. Not including the dust and dirt. I found the tags off of some trophies I won many years ago and donated to someone. I took the plates off and tossed them in the drawer. Now they are taped in my journal. I found pictures, old postcards that we were going to sell, some stuff that will go in the Goodwill bag. I found a little wooden box with our youngest daughters pony tail the first time she cut her hair. It is long. I found a cribbage board and we haven't played cribbage for years and years.. In the closet in the hall I found that Bob has 4 sets of worn out coveralls, a pair of boots with a big hole in the side and enough vests to supply an army. And I am not to the bottom yet. I think perhaps I should not have postponed getting into that closet so long. Who knows what I might yet find.

I sliced the end of my thumb opening a can of refried beans when I was getting supper. I finally got it to stop bleeding. We had tacos. Bob had to help me because he did not want thumb blood in everything. That is gross. Maybe he would have helped me anyway.

Blessings,

I HATE ICE

Oh no - she is butt high again. I will need a step ladder, not just a stool. I had to take the picture quick because she wanted to come see what I was doing. I do the chores this evening and the ice is awful. She just walked along slowly beside me and let me hold on to her mane when it got dicey. I am just so proud of her. I want to be on her back but just can't do anything with this kind of footing. Walking back and forth getting out and then in is the extent of it.
Amelia wondering why I am taking pictures instead of getting her to go in. She does not have as good manners as Sage does. She pulled away from me and it was either let her go or fall and I let go. By the time I got around the end of the barn she was in her stall munching on her grain.

Pepper, Abby and Raven watching me. You can still see the place on his neck where he had the IV. They are not thin in the least.

Wrangler wishing I would hurry up with their supper.

Rosie and Ditto watching me feed the others and patiently waiting for me to get to them. Bob and I are having a discussion on Rosie's age. I will have to go look it up in the file.


Bob is at a Back Country meeting this evening hence I did the chores. Don't mind as long as he has fed the cows. I hope the snow waits until he gets home.

I am thinking about what I want to do this spring and summer. For one I want to go to Montana to Clearwater Crossing for a weekend or more. Its not all that far and my favorite place to go ride. I also want to go down to Escure Ranch as soon as the snow is gone. Its a great place to ride. Not in the summer though - an abundance of rattle snakes. I think Bob and I are going over to the Ft. Wordon - not to ride but to take our camp trailer and just play on the beach

along the straights. We will be going to camp and ride with some friends of ours in Oregon in the Steens Mts. There is a wonderful campground with horse facilities not far from French Glen which is about 65 miles south of Burns. We will have to see how our finances hold up. With Bob not working, SS does not go too far. Someplace in there we will be going to Ellensburg to an adoption. I hope we can go to Lewiston too but don't know if they will want us to help. The last time I went to an Idaho adoption they did not do things like I was used to.

I am thinking about the Mustang Club meeting which will b the 27th. same place - Perkins on Argonne and Mission 6:00 PM. I will be sending out an e mail notice when it gets closer. Hope to have a good turnout. In October it was ONLY Bob and I.

Hope tomorrow is wonderful for you: Blessings

Guest Post-Bob

A few days I was on a rant about a letting in the Spokesman Review that offended me. Ultimately i did write a response and it was pulished. Bob wrote one also in case mine was not published and I would like to print it here.

L Moffats leter concerning the wild horses is a heart felt concern. The problem is, it is heart felt. Unfortantely it is a lot more comlicated that that. The wild horse is a ferral animal, not a natie species.

The horse will eat grass as close to the ground as a sheep where they are limited by the area let to them by private land, population ect. They have to be limited in number to remain as healthy as she saw them.

Where cows are allowed on grazing leases they are monitored and removed before they Can over graze an area. Before the late l970's the feral horses were considered a nuisance and were shot, captured for dog food or rounded up, herded into a pit and shot and buried.

BLM's mandate to regulate this is not perfect for every horse or for us the tax payer who support it. But it sure beats their fate in the past.

Please let people use common sense and science instead of just the heart. I am 72 years sol and feed 10 mustangs every night and morning. How many will L. Moffat like a her home.

I figured it out

Yesterdays post was pretty pathetic huh? Sorry, can't be brilliant all the time. LOL Brilliant, well maybe just a little once in a while.

Sage being led to the round pen. She was mincing along on ice.

Amelia too walking very carefully.

Sunset last night. That is pretty accurate colors. I am so blessed by them. They always make the evening calmer.

I don't know what the plant/flower is but its beautiful. Laura and Alexa brought it to me yesterday. Love it. It matches the sunset.

A really unexciting (is that a word?) day. We went to church, had our maple bar on the way home and just layed around all day. I took a nap and that's about it. I must get to some things tomorrow. Its really cold out. It is supposed to be about 10 tonight. I don't mind if I don't have to be outside in it.

Blessings on this Sunday evening -

Printer help needed again

Katie helped me get the pictures off of the card out of my camera but I either have forgotten or something or other. Have some pictures I wanted to share but I can't get them off.

I haven't been anywhere for the last couple of days, just raining out and making a big mess and that is depressing and I didn't want to just gripe. So, I just stayed away.

Not much better today, just aggravated about the printer. The good things that matter to me anyway is Eastern Washington University won the national title last night beating Delaware by one point. It is the Division one NCAA. Their very first national title. Was so proud of them and then today the Seahawks beat New Orleans when no one said they could. Such a game. Hope they get to play Chicago but it will be a tough game whomever. Then, Gonzaga Basketball is on and the Zags are beating Portland by a sizable margin. If you're not a sports fan, just ignore that all.

Laura and Alexa came over today and we went to look at Sage. She was a little concerned about new faces but let me rub all over her face and rub her back. It is too icey to do much else. After the rain now it is freezing solid. Still quite a bit of snow so if we get more, it will back to the sleigh with Rosie.

Maybe pictures tomorrow. Blessings.

On the way again to 1000 blessings

629 - Shopping at Ross
630 - Walking in the crunchy snow
631 - First birthdays
632 - Warm snow boots
633 - The crockery bowl that was Bob's mom's
634 - A donkey that loves to hug
635 - My recliner
636 - A grandchild turning 20 overnight
637 - A great granddaughters hugs and kisses just because we came
638 - Buttons that were my mothers
639 - "Pumpkin" bread made with squash that I grew
640 - Beautiful scarves
641 - A box of lace that was my mothers
642 - A cookbook made by Bob's foster sister that was raised with him.
643 - Pork Roast
644 - Wolf Lodge Restaurant
645 - Lion King
646 - Wizard of Oz
647 - Words that build us up
648 - New beginnings
649 - Flying along in the sleigh behind my pony
650 - Do not call registry
651 - Renewing memberships on line
652 - Eagles on Lake Couer d'Alene

More Snow but fun

The hugging donkey. Chemmy loves to be cuddled.

Bob and I coming around the barn. It was so fun.

The two "old folks" having fun.

Out on our "road" through the snow. I will have to make some changes to the harness. The tugs (the straps that connect Rosie with the sleigh) are too long and the shaves (the long wooden pole like things that she is in between) are not up where they belong. It has worked yesterday and today but is not as comfortable I know. And the over check broke. The over check, actually she has a side check bridle is the part of the bridle that hooks on the the saddle(the part that goes around her body) to keep her from being able to put her head down. Not a necessity but it makes her hold her head better. It was snowing today so the sleigh did not slide as easily as it did yesterday.

Chemmy and Yuma. If I had appropriate harnesses, I would teach them to drive.

Rusty. Have not posted a picture of her for a while.

My flying dog. He bounces along so funny. Missed his ears flying this time.

One of the reasons I had to sled out today, other than its fun, is a friend of Katie's is fighting breast cancer. She lives in the area and wanted to ride in the sleigh really bad. So she got her ride. She had chemo yesterday and had a hard time getting in and out but I was so happy to make her day brighter.

Other than that, we had fun with Cameron and Katie and our neighbor Theresa. Love it when people come by.

Not a whole lot going on. It is supposed to rain tonight and I hate that. It makes things so sloggy and messy. Then one digit cold again and more snow.

Blessings.