HE IS HOME - and some bragging

Pepper is hope, a shaved neck and he was hungry but he is well. The picture was taken last summer. Thank you all for your prayers and love expressed to him and to us. We need to add more salt to his feed so he drinks more. They have water with a heater in it but he needed more. So add the salt and keep him in is our motto. He is a valuable horse. $1,047 to save him. The biggest part of the bill was intensive care. I know our vet was up with him most of the night. Bob did not get home until about midnight and the IV had to be changed in 2 hrs. Thank you Dr. Jed McKinley. He has been our vet since he first came to Spokane from Canada shortly after he graduated from the WSU vet school. He put himself mostly thru college by rodeoing. He was a good bareback bronc rider. Thanks again everyone. Sage wanting out the gate. My camera is acting weird so I didn't get any better picture but she had a hold on the bottom of my coat telling me to hurry up. When I did take her out we went for a walk out to the road and around. She had a couple of little levitation's but mostly she just walked around with me. She was very alert and looked at stuff after she jumped first.

These next pictures are just simply bragging I guess. All the stuff that I still have on the walls of the office but when I showed. I showed first Ditto, then Glory, Rosie (Wild Rose), Mel, and Tango. Glory was a minimal white paint, Mel was a palomino appy and Tango was a paint. I don't have any of them anymore. I also have a cabinet full of trophies and stuff. It gives me good memories. I have donated alot of ribbons and some trophies for different things. Considering I did not start until I was 50 - makes me proud of my accomplishments.

I won't do this again but was feeling nostalgic one day when I was in the office and was looking at it all.

Took a good long nap today, made up for not much sleep last night.

Blessings

Thank you

Just a quickie this morning to tell you Pepper is going to be OK. He got two 5 gallon IV's. One they ran in pretty fast, the other no so fast. He had pooped this morning and was hungry. Without the IV's we would have lost him. I think that is my Christmas present though. Way more than a laptop in cost. Thank you all so much for praying or good thoughts or whatever is your way. It worked. When Bob left the clinic about midnight the vet said, go home and pray, this one is a tough one.

Sad Day

Today was not a good day. Pepper colicked this afternoon and has been taken to the vets hospital. It does not look so good. He has done it once before and pulled out of it. Please be praying. This is one special horse. Katie is with Bob, I have walked until my legs will hardly work. The vet came and tubed him and as soon as the sedative wore off he was threshing around again. So, that is where things are now. I had a blog all planned for this evening but am just not up to it. Your prayer would be appreciated.

If offended by hunting, skip 1st picture.

Bob went hunting today and bagged the largest wild turkey I have seen. He weighed 25#. They are good to eat - at least we think so- and he will go in our freezer.

This kept me busy this afternoon. I made Thumb Print Cookies and put Hershey Hugs in the center instead of jam. I am going to have to hide them though or Bob will get them eaten. I am trying to practice a large amount of self control. Tomorrow is the zucchini bread. I want to give a couple of loaves of bread and cookies to the old bachelor next door and some to Shannon and Ron. Both will help us anytime we ask. Like yesterday.

Sage had one of those days that I just left her in. The wind was blowing and it was raining and she was going to have a rodeo day and I was not in a mood to do it so she just stayed in. She was mad at me this evening and when I did the chores she would not let me pet her face. I guess that was my punishment for making her stay in.

The cows/calves are still bellowing. It is about to drive me nutty as well as the neighbors. I don't think the cows would make as much noise if the calves would shut up. Particularly the red heifer we bought in Oregon.

The package will get mailed to Tennessee in the morning. Its all ready to go. our mother is buried there and there is a dogwood tree on her grave. I sent a silver blue hummingbird ornament for them to hang in the tree. Its an older cemetery and they let you plant stuff there and put things on the grave. My sister put a statue of St. Francis of Assisi there and some one stole it. That takes real guts to steal something off of a grave. Don't you think?

Enough of my prattling on, blessings.

No picture today. This has not been much of a pre Christmas work day. I got woke up by me cell phone at 6:45 AM this morning. It was Bob down at the barn. He was separating cows/calves and needed help. Oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!I got up and got dressed and went down. Thinking of the time I should be laying in bed relaxing and waiting for him to bring me the paper. He does that almost every single morning. NOT today. We got the calves all penned and he backed up the trailer and it took a while to get 6 large cows loaded. This was the day the cows went to the vet to get preg checked, shots on a couple of them, one dehorned and a couple branded.

While he was gone I took a nap and began wrapping gifts and finishing up some decorating. I heard the truck come back in about 1 and went out to help. The biggest cow Candy, was causing a problem so he shut her in the front stall instead of just being herded in. Well, she decided to go out over the divider and got hung up. We could not get her off and she was going to die on us. I called Shannon and she came and by the time we got her off she just lay there gasping. We got her to roll up on her chest and pretty soon she got up. She is fine but it scared us and we spent quite a while on that job. I guess Bob won't do that again.

By the time we had caught our breath, we let the cows out and loaded the calves and took them next door. Easier to do it that way. The mooing out there may drive us nutty but it won't last long. All the cows will calve in late March or April.

I finished a couple of things today and made a meatloaf for dinner. It was good. After my disaster last week with the stew I was glad this turned out. I do believe it was the meat.

Blessings

The Last of the 12 Days of Christmas

On this last little fun thing I like to do. my own version of the 12 days of Christmas, I bring you 12 OLD BOOKS.
Most are books of poems but they are are old. Some really old. Most were either Bob's dad's or my dad's.
Hope I have entertained some of you anyway.

Church was good this morning and then we ran some errands. When we got home Bob went out to do some things and I settled down to watch the Seahawk's game. It was such an awful game I went out to muck out Sage and Rosie's stall. I did almost all of Sages and Bob did Rosie's and finished Sages. I bed them both. Its hard work but good for my body to get some good physical exercise. This time of year I tend to stay inside most of the day. I am afraid of falling and getting hurt when its as icy as it is today.

Blessings,

Decorating the Tree

On the 11th. Day of Christmas I bring you eleven Christmas balls. The blue one was a gift from out 25th. anniversary party (28 years ago) and the pink one in the middle we bought our first Christmas as a married couple. The striped one was my mothers. The others are plastic and just look pretty.

Today we went to a potluck with Shannon and Ron to learn how to Dairy Test Goats. Hmmmmmmmmmm. I passed the open book test but I don't think I did so well filling out the form. Its a form with itty bitty writing. I don't want to do it for anyone else but Shannon and Ron need someone to do it for them. It was nice to meet some new people and eat a lot of good food.

Other than that I have been just lazing around. Re reading a book a read a long time ago and liked and soaking in a hot bath. Bob is carving a walking stick. Hope he cleans up his mess.

Today is Chrissy's partner Wendy's birthday. Hope she has a good one.

Blessings