Wimpy Wednesday

This hangs inside my front door when anyone comes in. Memories are such good things.

I have not done much of anything today but lay around, rest and do little stuff. My ribs still hurt but not so bad. Tomorrow I will attack the day like nothing happened so they had better be well by then.

I put the barn horses out this morning, told the others good morning and came back to the house. Katie came and did ground work with Abby today and she did the evening chores for me. Bob was late getting home. He had to go to Grand Coulee today. I was greatful for Katies sweet spirit and offering to do the chores for me. She agrevates me sometimes but she is a very sweet girl.

Nothing much else. Just whining and I am determined no to do that. Have a good Thursday.

Thankful Tuesday

The ugly porch as it sits today. I hope we can go pick out the windows on Saturday. That should help some don't you think. That and the siding.

Well today is Thankful Tuesday. I intended to write about Christyn but I will do that next week. Today I am thankful for being alive. Tonight I was eating dinner and a piece of baked potatoe went into my windpipe like a plug. I felt it settle in and I started gasping. I could get no air. Bob said my lips were blue and my hands were turning blue when it was over and I was still gasping but getting a little air. Bob did the hymlick (however you spell it) thing. It did not pop out like I thought it was supposed to but dislodged it enough to get a little air. I was losing consiousness, I knew. I really thought I was going to die. Bob was frantic and I was fighting him, just trying to live I guess. It was awful. When I finally got a little air, he had me sit in a chair and lean foreward. I am still coughing and my ribs hurt like heck. I know now why you don't practice on a person.. Bob is so sorry for hurting me but he probably saved my life. So on this Tuesday evening I am thankful to be living.

Until I got dinner, I spent most of the day outside. Lots of stuff for the garbage and lots of stull in the burn pile. AND, Katie and I went for a little ride this afternoon. I rode Pepper because it was Abby's first trail ride with Katie riding and she is a timid rider. I wanted to be on a horse I could pony off of if I needed too. I never have ponied off Dixie. No need anyway, Katie and Abby did great and Pepper and I ambled along enjoying the warm day. We came back and worked a little in the arena. I wanted to get used to sitting a trot decently and to work over some of the poles. Katie followed me on Abby. She went over the logs and bridge and everything I knew that she would. Its Katie, not Abby but she is getting more relaxed.

I am going to try to get into bed and relax. Not a good evening. Bob went to Walla Walla today and he does not have to travel tomorrow. I am glad. Have a wonderful Wednesday. Don't choke on any potatoes.

A Marvelous Monday

My beautiful new bridle that Bob bought me yesterday. I ride Dixie in a mechanical hackamore. She will take a bit but her teeth were so bad so long that she just does not like it and for trail riding who cares. I just love this headstall. I will be the envy of all I ride with. (Well mayby not) but I love it.

I am so stiff and sore tonight. Oh my back is killing me and my knees and legs hurt. It feels so good . I worked out in the yard most of the day. Raked, picked up junk, ect. ect ect. It felt so good to be able to be out. I should have ridden but worked in the yard instead. I told Katie I would ride with her tomorrow.

Katie came and rode Abby today. She wants a free horse someone up in Colville wanted to give her. I told her she didn't ride the one she had often enough. It made her mad at first but then she told me I was correct. We worked and worked with Abby in the round pen. Pretty much at least an hour. That is the best Katie has done in a long time.

I will post a picture of the ugly porch tomorrow. It is sided and roofed. It is still very ugly. I hope we get to get the windows this week so Steve can get them in. Maybe then it won't feel like a big box with a door in it Steve is proud of his work and Bob likes it but I still think it is ugly. Sharon and Nikki agree with me. I hope it looks better when we side the house and it looks like it belongs. I am looking at colors for the house and I am thinking of yellow and white but I don't know for sure yet.

Have a Terrific Tuesday.

Sunny Sunday

And what a beautiful sunny day it was. I saw a thermometer that said 65. WAAAAAAAHOOO.
I am so ready for nice weather.

We went to church this morning and it was a beautiful service. BUT, the church was filled with Easter Lilies and I though I would croak. They really send me off in an allergy attack. My eyes watered, my nose ran and by the time we got out of there my head was pounding.

After church we had a quick lunch and went to a tack liquidation sale from a Tack Store in Sandpoint. Got a new saddle pad to try to make my saddle better for Dixie and they gave me another one. I am going to donate the extra one to Mustang Days raffle. We have alot of saddle pads but I wanted one really built up in the front and yet cut back. Bob bought a saddle too. I don't have the foggiest reason why, its too small for me. Anyone want a really pretty well made youth saddle - or someone with a smaller rear than mine. Its a 14". He will want $400.00 for it. It was a good buy but???????????????

Came home and did chores. And now I am here. Bob and I had a good time at the auction and just being together. Now the week starts all over again. He will have to drive to Chelan again tomorrow. I hope Steve comes to work on the porch some more. Bob talked to him this evening and I think he is.

Have a marvelous Monday.

A great ride

We had a marvelous ride. We went out to Fishtrap Lake. It was so pretty and peaceful there. We had lunch on the shore. Down the lake there were either swans or snow geese. I could not tell and we did not go down that way.

These folks were not as far ahead as it looks. Different horses walk out at different speeds and Bob and I were kind of in the middle. Grass is beginning to turn green. It was pretty muddy in spots but none of the horses seems to have trouble with it.

The picture below is a windmill in front of the rangers house. I liked how it turned out agains the sky.

I don't know why Bob did not take his helmet off while we were eating. He just didn't I guess. Not everyone rides with a hard hat but we do. I won't give a lesson to a kid without them wearing a riding helmet nor will I allow our grandkids to ride without one. We believe we should practice what we preach.

Part of the group eating lunch or just fooling around. Bernie is the man with the red bandanna and he is a wonderful photographer as well as a funny guy. Bob was leading for a while and got off on the wrong trail. You can bet that the article in the next newsletter will be in great detail about Bob getting lost and us wandering around. He did take the wrong trail but we got it sorted out and were never lost but it will be funny for sure. His wife Sherrie got bucked off her mule too and it will be funny. Not when it happened though. Tinker just got all excited and bucked. She was embarrased but not hurt. All the mules bucked at some time or the other during the ride

Dixie and Pepper tied to a tree while we were eating. Pepper just stood there and took a nap. He is such a good boy mostly. He pulled a couple of things today that he has never done before. I wore my spurs - bumper spurs- because he lags along alot of the time and it gets tiresome. He was doing that and I just touched him with the spurs and he took off like a shot at a hard gallop right toward the horses in front of us. I got his head pulled around in a one reign stop and he ran into the back of Alan's mule. He stopped but the mule took off bucking. Lordy, lordy. I wanted to throttle Pepper. The other thing he did was when we went thru a gate he decided to tuck his rear and just scoot through. He almost went out from under me. Never before has he done things like that. And Dixie did fine too. Bob said she settle down about half way through the ride instead of feeling like you were riding a rocket.

So that was our adventure today. When we got home we went into town and got a new TV. Our living room TV went woosh and quit last night. So Bob can watch his hunting shows. Also CSI, Law and Order - all those gory shows that I don't watch.

We went to Big R and got some things that we need. And we got some things we didn't need but wanted. It was a good afternoon too.

Have a blessed Palm Sunday.

Friday

This is the framework of my ugly porch. I thought Steven would be here today to put the siding on but he didn't come so it still sits there looking just like that. The sides towards the bathroom window and the side toward the living room window will have big windows. I still think its ugly but windows and flower boxes will make it a little more appealing. We will be siding the house this spring and it will match. Maybe anyway. I am trying not to be negative.

Bob should be home soon from his 5th. out of town trip this week. Three to Yakima, Moses Lake and Chelan. He said he would be traveling all next week too. I hope the weather is as good as it is predicted so I can get outside and do somethings. Need to really clean up the yard both front and back.

When I put the horses in I looked at Pepper and Dixie. They are going to take some vigerous grooming before we ride tomorrow. They are really big mud balls. The weather better be as good as they are predicting. My saddle got a good makeover this winter at Indiana Harness. Pat did a good job on it. Love my saddle, it fits me really well. And all but Dixie it fits well and I can make it fit her high withers with a good saddle pad. I wish I had bought the one I looked at in Albany. I did not want to spend that much at that moment. I have thought about it alot since and wish I had.

Have not seen baby Henry today. See his mom over in the far pasture so know he is well there. Bob said he was up with her at the water this morning and he was bucking and running. I am sure they were just resting over there.

Maybe tomorrow I will have more to say about the horses. Miss them. I petted Ravens poor lopsided upper lip today when I fed. It worries me. She eats OK but it looks really weird. Liberty is going down the road to Shannons one of these days for a while to have a mule baby and Shannon is going to get her riding. I thought she was going last weekend but she is still here. When I think about how she was when we had to run her into a small pen to finally get a halter on her and then "led" her with a bucket of grain to get her to our place and how she was so scared of being touched and now she is sweet and loving and wants to be handled. Just needs to get finished and get so you can ride her. She is a nice big mare. She will have a nice mule baby for Shannon.

Have a great Saturday.

Thursday

New baby Henry with mom Spot who was pawing dirt over her back into the air and his Aunt Candy that we think is going to have her calf in about a month. Spot is extra, super extra protective of her babies. He was born in the middle of a hail storm and then survived 4" of snow this morning. Cows are not really very bright.

This has been a very busy past two days. Yesterday Bob got home early and wanted me to go to town with him. We got the stuff to cover the new ugly porch and we went to Carl Jr.'s to have a burger and then went grocery shopping. I was so tired when we got home I crawled into bed. This morning I met my dear friend Kim for breakfast. She is a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines and had a layover here. I had not seen her for nearly a year and it was wonderful to hug her and sit and just talk. She is getting married in 11 days in Hawaii. Not her first, nor his. I am praying this is wonderful for her. He is a fisherman in Alaska all summer and she flies all over whever AA flies. Winters in Mexico and summers to Alaska. Love her like a daughter.

Came home and finished up some things I had to do for Marriage Encounter and then met some folks back into Airway Heights to give the stuff to then. By the time I got home it was time to do chores.

The horses are all great. I don't think they were thrilled with the snow but then who was. I don't care if we are setting records all that much. Ditto is so dirty. She is mostly white and rolls in the muck. We are going riding at Fishtrap on Saturday. I will ride Pepper. Bob is going to take the edge off Dixie for me. We were going down to Escure Ranch south of Sprague but the guys changed their mind. I am afraid of mud but it will be fun.

Am tired and Bob wants his hair cut. Have a great Friday.