Tuesday

I thought I would have pictures today but when I got to the pastures, the batteries would not run the camera and I did not have time to go back down there.

This morning we got the call from Angie at the BLM office to go pick up the old mare at Stockland. She had never been titled. She is indeed 26 and no amount of digging around could find where she came from. So, a long story shorter, Bob went down to Davenport to get her. He went in the pen and put the halter on her. She just was kind of resigned and let him do it. He led her out and she hopped right up into the trailer. When he got her home he led her over to the pen we were going to put her in and she put her head down to eat grass and has not stopped. We did put some hay in for her this evening and I am going to start her on a little Sr. feed tomorrow. She has brighter eyes and looks relieved to be here. We call her Granny. Angie told us they would pay for her worming and shots and we have the wormer so we will do that tomorrow. Then we will go get a 5 way and WN and give that to her. I think I will worm her and in 2 weeks worm her again. Bob will try to get at her feet one day soon too. Her front ones are kind of bad. She is up for adoption, anyone want a 26 year old lawn ornament. I promise I will have pictures tomorrow.

Had PT today. Jeff is on vacation so had a lady therapist. She was very nice but did not really work as hard as Jeff so don't know if it was worth it or not. He will be back on Friday.

Remember: Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it, one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

So, love yourself and have a good Wednesday.

Monday

Our ugly porch got windows today. Both front windows and one on the R side. It is looking better but is still ugly. It is getting closer to not being though.

I took a picture of the color of the siding but it looks faded out and kind of grey instead of the green that it is. I will try again tomorrow. Steve worked hard. He finished the well house except the siding. He is supposed to be back here in the morning.

Today we went down to the livestock auction in Davenport. Do you know anyone who does that for entertainment. Bob did buy another steer that will be ready in about a month. If you know anyone who wants to buy meat, we will have some available. But that is not what I was going to tell you. We were sitting there watching the cattle come and go and a guy motioned for Bob to go down to him and out the door. Then in came Angie who is the BLM Mustang person. And, there was a mustang that was an impound horse. Which could mean about anything. We tried to read her brand. Its kind of hard but we think she is about 26 years old. They are trying to find out whether she is titled or not. If she is not, she can not go thru the auction. We should know in the next day or so. If she is not, we will take her until they decided what to do with her. She is thin and sad. And very thin. Maybe a 2 on the BLM chart. Sad. She is greying around her muscle and kneck. Poor old girl. Life has been difficult for her. If she is titled, next Monday she will probably go thru the auction for 10.00.

Remember: Friendship compounded of esteen and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
Samuel Johnson

Have a friendfilled Tuesday.

A Super Sunday

Today after church Bob and I went down to do a compliance check for the BLM. We are volunteers and having been through their training program. We went to Arlene of the blog "My Mustang Wildairo" Although she now has Echo too. We met her husband Brad and her son Williams also. Wildairo is a beautiful horse. He has not liked strangers but he came right up to Bob and ate carrots from his hand. They have had some trouble with a farrier and he needs a front foot trimmed. I told her I thought they might want to try a different one who would spend more time with Wildairo first and get to know him. Other than that he is an awesome horse.

This is Arlene's other horse Echo. He is black bay and is stunning. He will take a carrot from Arlene but she can not touch him. She is working a plan to get a halter on him with a catch rope. I am sure she will make big progress then. His year is not up until the last of August so we will go back then to check him out. He is going to max out over 15 hands I think. Wildairo will be close. Both are beautiful mustangs and she is proud of them both. She is level headed about their training and I was impressed.

Bob talked farming and cows ect. after he looked at thoses horses. Brad has the most beautiful pure alfalfa hay for $125.00 a ton. Bob and I are thinking of a couple of tons but we have not had time to talk too much. He slept all the way home and I drove.

This is Arlenes old horse Foxsun. He does not look too well and he has something growing under his chin. He is a delightful old horse that loves his belly scratched. In face he will come and nearly lean on you to get you to rub it

This little guy was standing by the fence just down the road from Arlenes. He is sooooo cute. We just had to stop and take his picture.

I want to say hello to Arlene's auntie in England. Arlene says she reads my blog. Thank you.

I wanted to elaborate a little more on our ride yesterday. We saw lots of deer. One was laying down not too far from the trail. Lots of bugs and a great deal of mosquitos. It was fun though and I hope we will do it again before too long. I must get a trail map though so we don't wander like we did part of the time. Hello again to Charlie who had been at our last meeting, Terri and Melissa.

Remember: Always and never are two words you thould always remember never to use.

Wendell Jones.

Hope your Monday is a day you will love.

Sore and aching Saturday

This is Melissa with her black Wyoming mustang. I can not remember the horses name. I think its an Indian name. I asked her so many times I am embarrassed. She was a new rider with us today. Welcome Melissa. This person is Terri. She did not ride a mustang but a beautiful buckskin Missouri Foxtrotter. She was new to us today too. Welcome. They came with a friends dad Charlie. He rode a grey arabian cross mare. We welcome theme to the groupl It was fun and when I had ridden all I could and had to walk a way, Charlie got off and walked with him. I appreciated that so much.We stopped to eat lunch in the shade. We rode 12 miles. In the heat and I think it was a little much for all of us. Other than being sore I think the only near wreck we had was John on Cisco. Cisco had a tantrum and laid down with John on his back. John is Andrea's husband. We were glad to have him join us too.

Laura Richards and her horse Danny. He is a big QH. She has been part of our group for a while.

Bob Andrea and John at lunch. I think that is Melissa off to the left. We were so happy to have Mike and Jo Cameron ride with us. We had not seen them in a long time. They ride Tennessee Walkers. I think there were 10 of us. A nice ride on a hot day. I hope my aches have gone by tomorrow morning.

Katie rode Pepper because we could not catch Abby. She was going to meet us there. I have made a major decision I think. I am thinking of finding a home for Dixie. She pony's packs and nothing spooks her. She has way too much energy for me at my age. I really prefer to ride Pepper and plod along. She is easy to rode if she is ridden more. Then she settles down and is a great horse. She crosses water, goes anywhere you point her. Its just her energy level is so high when she is not ridden often and my old body needs the plugging along.

Remember: Beautiful young people are accident of nature - but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel old tonight but don't know about the work of art. Have a blessed Sunday.

Friday June 12th.

Dustin, know on Nikki's blog Life With Boys - I wrote it wrong the other day. Don't know where my brain was = Heir Aparant - Dustin turns 26 today. I can hardly believe he is that old. This picture was taken on my birthday when I was at Nikkis after her surgery. He was bbq'ing my birthday dinner in the rain. When she asked me what I wanted and I said burgers, I did not know it was going to downpour. He did it for me. Such a sweet boy. I called him on his cell phone today and sang happy birthday to him and left it as a message. Its tradition. Happy Birthday sweet boy (young man) Today our siding arrived on a big truck. I hope they had delivered other siding. A huge truck for what they put on the ground would be kind of hysterical.

I think the young man driving the truck though I might be a little wacky when I was clicking pictures while he put the truck thru its paces. We have decided to make more changes than just siding the house and the ugly porch. We are going to put a door in the kitchen where the window out to the deck was. I have wanted that for a while. Besides, we are removing the deck and making a patio instead.

I don't think we can afford to pour a cement one this year after siding. So, gravel it will be. We will have a small back porch and a small area coming out the new door both with stairs down to the patio. We may use paver stones of some kind. I got most of the stuff off the deck today. Bob needs help to get the bbq off. The things I had painted purple, I am going to paint bright yellow. I am excited about it. Sunday we will go to the Ugly Duck store and see if they have a door like we want. Or like I want anyway.

I wonder what he would have done if Bob had not been here to help him unload it. I wanted to open one and see the color of it. However, just as I was gathering my camera back up and getting ready to go out the door a huge bang of thunder sounded, and i headed back inside rather quickly. I hate, I said I HATE thunder and lightening. So the color reveal will have to wait for another day. It rained like mad for a while but has quit now. This storm cell seems to have gone on to harrass someone else.

Tomorrow we have a Mustang Horse Club ride planned for Riverside State Park at 10 AM. I hope it does not storm in the morning. If its not so hot that will be good. I am going to ride Dixie. I have my stuff all laid out. Tomorrow I will have pictures of us riding.

Remember: Never do today what you can put till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light to what is best to be done.

Aaron Burr.

Have a clear view and have a nice Saturday.

Thursday

This is Ryan he "graduated" from 6th. grade today. He is on the honor roll, got a music award, and an award for placing high in the WASL. We are proud of him. It was a nice program even if it was hot and stuffy in there. Then they served ice cream bars and popsicles.

We went into town today again and I got some flowers. I think I have them just about filled up now. The planters. My head is working faster than my fingers. I got yellow African Daisies and some yellow Margarite Daisies. Our yard is such a mess this summer. We are having to remove all the turquoise trim off the house. And its full of spiders underneath it. I am working on the lower level. Bob does not want me to climb a ladder. The siding will arrive tomorrow. I think Steve will be here to get things laid out however it is he wants it. He also is finishing the well house for his dad.

I am so mad at AT&T. If we did not have a cell phone contract with them I would change to Verizon. Christy - our daughter in law - has worked for them for almost 2 years. She had kidney stones last week and had to wait a few days for them to pass. It was very painful. She missed 5 days of work. She was in the middle of a training program for some changes and they fired her yesterday because she did not finish the training in their time frame even though she had paperwork from the doctor. They are struggling with both of them working and now she has to find another job. She got her degree in accounting 2 years ago with a 3.75 GPA and I think she needs to find something like that. That is what she went to college for and was on the Deans List.

So, this was our day. Nothing too exciting - did watch a mama magpie teaching her babies to fly. They were cute.

Remember: A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt.

Wednesday

Cody just standing there. His owner came our today and worked with him a bit. Old Cody has been fibbing to us about what he knows and what he doesn't. He truely loves Bonnie and I don't think she will let him go to anyone when we get him going. After he went to that "trainer" that did nothing he regressed and we just have to get him back to where he was. Bonnie sat on him once and he did not explode like that guy said he did. So we know about where he is in his training. I will be glad when I can really get into this. I miss getting in and working up a sweat with the horses.

This is a picture I could not find yesterday of Bryant. We are still proud of him today and will be. Nikki -at her blog Nikki and her boys - calls him Skater Dude. I call him sweet.

A good day. Bob went to Yakima today for work. Now he has the rest of the week off and the first 3 days next week. He did not get back in time to turn in what he went after. Locked up in our back yard is a Kia full of hand held computers. $500,000 worth. I think we will both sleep lightly.

PT was better today. Jeff did not try to move my shoulder blade. In fact it feels better than it has for a while. Now if I could just go and get a good massage and a pedicure I would think I was in seventh heaven.

Remember: It is important to make your personal environment as comfortable and uplifing as possible. Look foreward to a grand Thursday.