Rain rain go away Sunday

I won't add a 3rd. verse to my song today, just the old one we used to sing as kids. Everything is mud around here. It is awful. We cleaned and moved and got ready for winter but to no avail. The 2 loads of sand into Rusty's pen under her shelter is helping with where she can lay down in relative comfort. Hate this kind of grey, dismal days.

I did not go outside today after we got home from church and stopping to buy groceries on the way home. When we came out from our church there was a regular deluge falling. Bob got the car so I did not have to walk in it. Wasn't that nice of him. By the time we got to Airway Heights it was pea soup fog. We have a theory. When they were planning on an airport for the fair city of Spokane they thought, Where is it the foggiest and that is where they put the airport. When Bob came home last night and down our country road his max speed was 5 to 10 mph. He could not see a thing. I don't like fog but hate it at night when there are no marks on the road.

Bob came in from feeding this evening and said "YOUR MARE" did her tricks in the barn again. running in and around and out and in when he is trying to get her into her stall. LOL. She does not like him. I keep telling him that. He needs to talk nice to Dixie and she will cooperate with him. He is not the most patient person in our little part of the world (or anyplace either for that matter).

Daughter Nikki has her first surgery tomorrow. If she has any trouble I will be in my car and speeding over there. Carmen has promised to call.

Rainy Days and Saturdays

The second verse of the same new song as yesterday.

I sewed most of the day. Then I made myself some potato soup. Then I found out I was out of crackers. Darn but it was good anyway. Bob went deer hunting up in the Colville area early this morning. He called about 2 hrs. ago and had gotten his deer. He said it would take him a while because it was very foggy up there. That's OK, just so I know he's OK and will be home tonight.

My eyeballs started crossing while I was sewing so decided it would have to sit there until tomorrow. I am also trying to get pictures out of the old albums onto the computer so I can get them on discs. Some of them are fading and they are important to me and will be by generations to come. Especially pictures of both my grandmothers and my father who died when I was 16.

Katie came out and rode today in the rain. She helped me feed and put the mares and Pepper in their stalls. I can do it just fine but it was nice to have the company. For all my bragging about Dixie, she was not good tonight. She could not remember anything until I really got after her. Then it was like Oh, you want me where? She is finally put some weight back on.

Katie helped me do some clipping on Skeeter. My dog clippers got hot so we had to quit but his face, belly and one leg and foot are done. She said she would help me tomorrow finish him. I gave him a bath this morning too.He does not mind that, he just lets me and then when I blow him dry he likes that.

So, that was my day. Not too exciting.

Rainy days and Fridays

I think I started to write a new song. I hate days like this. I could have stayed in bed and dozed and read all day. I did most of the afternoon. Not in bed but curled up in the afghan my daughter in law Debbie made me last Christmas. It felt good.

We burned some of the stuff that had been accumulating all summer. Branches, logs and yard waste. It looked like a day to do it. I watched it for the most part from my dining room window where I was sitting at the table sewing. I am working on Christmas gifts. Am trying to get Tyler's done before he gets home. Nikki or Anita don't tell him.

Had bad scare this morning. My son in law called and said they had taken Nikki to emergency in the night running a very high (104 plus) fever with chills and much pain. I sure wish they had called me last night. She has a raging kidney infection. She is having a fibroid tumor removed on Monday and when all the infection is gone and she has healed up, she will have a hysterectomy. I am worried about her. She does not want me to come on Monday but if it goes bad and they have to do it all she wants me there. I am so worried about her. She is home. I am glad that Tyler is there to help her with the little boys 10 and 4.

That has occupied my thoughts today. But I did go out and put my mares away. Bob said he did not want to mess with Dixie if she does so well with me. He was working in the barn though so I wondered what she would do. She went straight into her stall and then gave him a dirty look. It made me laugh. I put Pepper in his stall and he thought he was king. Of course we think he is too. He does not get grain like the girls, just the things for his eyes and vitamins. He is so fat. He breathes and gets fat. We can control the amount of hay he eats when he gets put in at night. The others get fed in the paddock. Rosie all by herself because the others are mean to her and she doesn't get to eat. Just grabs a bite here and there. So she gets a pile to herself.

A snowy Thursday

It snowed all morning until early afternoon then it rained and it left. That is OK. I did not really appreciate it so much. I had to go into Spokane this evening to a Northeast Zone Meeting. When I came home instead of raining it was pea soup foggy in Airway Heights. Ick I hate that more than anything.

The girls came in quickly this evening. And Dixie went right to her stall. Nothing like she does for Bob. I almost hate to tell him. He is going to call her a bad name. She just likes me best. Hahaha. I don't call Rusty bad names when she shuns me and she does. Oh wells. Ditto likes me best too. He knows that though. I have had her since she was 2 and she is 28 I think this year.

Wednesday

My girls coming in on the run along with Yuma because he knows he gets a treat when he is the only one that comes with the girls. You would think the others would catch on. They don't seem to though. They will come when Bob whistles but Yuma has already had his treat. He thinks he is pretty smart. Well he is actually.

Bob was in the barn when the mares went in. It does not both Ditto at all but Dixie does not think he belongs there and always does something silly like running out the other end of the barn and then coming around and going in the east end again. Tonight he shut the far door and closed the other one behind her. She stood there and just looked at us. I told her to get in where she belonged and she just gave me a stare. Bob popped her on the rear lightly with a piece of board and she whipped in where she should be and snorted. We both had to laugh.

I went to the dentist again today, have one more appointment and then I am done for now.

A cold rainy Tuesday

Not a day to take pictures of anything. Its the kind of a day that I would have liked to have stayed in bed with a good book with a cup of steaming hot cider to sip on. However, that is not what happened. Our davenport was in sad disrepair and though we loved it, I would rather have not had one than that any longer. Our budget just would not let us replace it. This morning a friend from our church called and asked if we would like a couch and love seat. It was in like new condition but they had not been using it and was in storage. Bob asked him why he had called us and he said the Lord told him to. I won't argue. Bob and Tyler went and got it so my day was spent getting the old couch and chair out of the way and other things too, cleaning the floor good. They look nice in the living room and I am so grateful for them. It changed the direction of decorating in my living room though. That is OK. It looks new and more comfy I
think.

Bob took care of the horses today. He and Tyler worked in the barn most of the day. Then he put in my "girls" and went to catch Pepper and put him in and he said no thanks, I won't go. So, he gets to stay out. Bob did not want to chase him to catch him in the rain. He (Pepper) is a spoiled brat sometimes. Ditto and Dixie are lounging in their dry stalls with the barn doors closed so its warm. They will laugh at him tomorrow.

Tyler is leaving for a week tomorrow. I made him promise to go in the daylight. I worry about him. He is anxious to see his parents and have a good visit with them and to go to a friends wedding on Sat. We will miss him. We have come to depend on him a lot.

Monday

Isn't he stunning? We went into Airway Heights this afternoon to Hicks Hardware and if you are in this area you know that Claude Hicks has everything and knows exactly where it is. After Bob got what he needed he said lets go over to the hospital in Medical Lake and look at the deer. If you are from this area you know the deer at the hospital are all over the place. This beautiful guy just laid there and looked at us. I don't have a long lens so I was this close to him. He wasn't too concerned. He is king of the Eastern State Hospital deer herd I think.

Bob and Tyler worked in the barn until after dark tonight. They are adding to the loft and putting more lights up. It will be great when they get it finished.

Dixie and Ditto were very funny. When I was out talking to the boys I heard horses trotting and my girls saw me and thought AHAAAAA. Its time to go eat. I made them wait a bit but then put in their grain and hay and watched them hurry fast to their respective stalls. They are so funny. Both of the nickering under their breath at me. Yuma and Rosie came with them but when I did not let them in they pouted all the way back out to the pasture. Yuma is so very funny. He stomps and pouts and gives dirty looks.