Sunday and I am home

My pictures of the convention would not be too pertinent to the blog except we passed step 2 of getting the mustangs added to the breed roles at Washington State Horsemen, I had to present the proposal and the Friday, Horse show Division meeting. the proposal had to include our purpose, eligibility, a list of supporters of the proposition, who would provide the year end award and who would be the division director(I nominated myself because I was the only one there). They accepted it and then I had to present it to the general membership this morning. they accepted it. Now the 3rd. step is in January when the executive board totally ratifies it. It sounds like a long process but worth it.

My sisters son in law's brother committed suicide today. He was very close to the family too and they are all shaken. It is so sad when someone lets one moment in a life cause a person to do something so devastating to everyone left behind. He leaves behind a VERY devastated brother besides his two daughters who he raised by himself and two small grandchildren who now won't have the opportunity to have a Papa. Its a sad sad story.

Bob cinched up the saddle on Rusty today before I got home. He said she can really buck. She got the saddle off and Bob will have some repair to do. Tomorrow he will put the surcingle on her to see if she does better. She had accepted it for a couple of times. NOT TODAY. He said it was really a rodeo. He hit the fence. I laughed and wished I had been here with a camera. He had been so proud of himself with her being so calm. LOL

It has been a long day. But a totally uneventful drive both ways. The roses are still blooming around the hotel and the view of the river was beautiful. Too bad I did not get a chance to experience it too much. Lots of meetings and visiting with friends you don't get to see often and drooling over the stuff the vendors had. I could have bought a new saddle, new saddle pads, new boots, all kinds of tack, jewelry, etc, etc. etc.

Windy Wednesday

What my hubby did all morning. He and Skeeter were enjoying a rainy, windy afternoon. All the while I was cleaning the kitchen. Oh well. He earned it though. He went down to work with Rusty in the drizzle and wind. I might have thrown in the towel. But he had a saddle on her today. He did not cinch it up but she just seemed to say Oh well, whatever. Now if I had gone in it would have been different but that is OK. Not a day to be doing too much with the horses.

We have having a terrific wind storm along with the incessant rain. It woke me in the middle of the night it blew so hard. So you see Andrea, its not any better here than there. I do get tired of the grey dismal days.

Yesterday morning our land line phone was not working. Bob messed with the line off and on all day. It still did not work this morning. I was sitting at the sewing machine and suddenly the phone rang. It was a salesman but I didn't care. That meant I could get my computer to work. No telephone land line, no computer. It has done this 2 or three times now. Maybe Bob will work on it while I am gone the rest of the week. I leave in the morning for the Washington State Horsemen convention in Richland. I will be home Sunday. If they have a computer in the lobby somewhere I may be able to write here but if not Sunday night is when you will hear from me again.

Oh yes, our daughter Nikki is home and doing better. She had to have blood but is doing better in her own home and her own bed. Thanks for your prayers.

No rain Whoopeeeeeeeeeeee

This is our sweet gentle Liberty. She is the 9 year old mare that the neighbor went to Wyoming and left with us. He did send some money for hay for her this winter. She is as gentle as can be but is not broke to ride. Tyler was on her once but that is all. She did nothing but stand there and I know she will do fine if anyone will be consistent with her. We haven't had time and Tyler does not seem to understand the necessity to follow up. He does love on her often and that is important too.

Our daughter had her surgery today and is doing well this evening. She expected it to be day surgery but not so. She is there for a day or two. Her husband has been faithful to call us periodically during the day. I hope to talk to her in the morning. I did get to talk to my sister this evening to tell her about Nikki. They have been on a little trip to Mississippi for their only granddaughters 16Th. birthday.

All the horses are fine. I hate the mud but what can you do. They have shelter to get under but they don't seem to use it much. We are not the only ones with the mud problem though. Even our friends who train at an expensive barn have mud.

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.